Embedded file as an icon in Word to PDF

When we send proposals to customers, our standard policy is to send them in PDF format. The proposal template is a Word document. However, on occassion, we need to embedd information Word documents into the proposal as an icon in the template. When the proposal is converted to PDF, the embedded document cannot be accessed. Is there a way to do this? Right now, we are send these particular proposals as protected Word docs, but would prefer to send them as PDF files. Sample doc attached.

There's no embedded document in the PDF. Just the image of the icon.
However, you can attach the Word document to the PDF, and it might even be possible to launch it by clicking on this icon, but that requires some scripting knowledge.

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We can save the embedded spreadsheet via Excel object model. Here is an example that check the whether the inlineshape is an embedded workbook and save it to the disk for you reference:
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