There seems to be something here Embed PDF in Word - Embed a PDF Document Into Microsoft Word - Online PC Learning - see method 3. This appears to say that Word can to an external PDF and if that the case then perhaps it will work with an Illustrator PDF file which is a PDF that is fully editable within Illustrator and which can be updated in Illustrator. As far as I can tell there is no way to import or to a native .ai file in Word. The format is unsupported. Method 3. Link to external PDF italic With this method you are not ding the PDF rather you are ing to it. If you intend to send the file to someone then you would need to include the PDF. The advantage of ing is that the file size of the original Word document file size does not change. Open the word document and select Insert on the ribbon. The dialog box will appear select Create from File. The file location will now appear on the dialog box Click OK ordered-list An to suit your needs from the border.n It is important to note that this is not the file. It is an image to the file at its location