Inserting pictures vs building tables

[DNH1130]

I am building a rather large Word doc at work. I've got a mix of data that has been sent to me as pictures or as tables in Excel. The file size is becoming increasingly large, which makes using the file on SharePoint very cumbersome.



To reduce the file size, should I be inserting pictures of tables or building tables in Word and pasting the data in that way?

[macropod]

You can, of course, insert an Excel workbook as a Word table. Depending on what functionality you need, that's all that might be required.

[Charles Kenyon]

I can think of no instance where inserting pictures in a Word file decreases the size of the file, unless you are talking about inserting them as links.