I have a document that has a Visio file embedded within a tab in Excel. This works fine. MIcrosoft even makes it easy to edit the Visio document. I just double click and it opens right up. It's great.

To add or embed a Word document inside Excel requires the user to do so via Objects, Paste special, Linked documents, or creating a new file. Let us see all these methods. Insert document as an object ...