Reference Excel cells in Word

Question

Does anyone know of a pre-packaged solution for referencing Excel cells directly in a Word document?

For example,

Answer 1

While Will's solution indeed links from the Cell objet, the content is inserted as a picture.

In the same dialog, selecting "Unformatted Unicode Text" instead will link and insert only the cell's content, which is desirable if you apply custom formatting on your text.

Unfortunately, this action only works for a single cell. Copying multiple cells will result in a text block with individual cell content seperated by tabs or line skip, with the entire block considered linked and entire. The solution is to link individual cells using this method.

This can become tedious if you plan on linking large portions of table from Excel, as for every cell the dialog must be invoked. It can be sped up by using hotkeys, but the sequence gets tedious:

alt,h,v,s, then alt+l, tab, ↓, and finally Enter

Obviously this is not practial for large numbers of cells. A AutoHotkey script can help but it third party grafted solution, on par with using VBA scripts.