copy data from excel and paste in active word doc

So copy the data in Excel, then anywhere you want to paste it in Word, select that location and paste. The paste shortcut is Ctrl-V. Unless you set up some elaborate macro coding, there is no way the Word document will know where to get the data from Excel that it's supposed to paste. That coding will require that either the workbook gets opened and closed every time you run the macro (which makes it slow) or the workbook is kept open at all times (which makes it inaccessible for anything else).