How would I accomplish this?. Surely it’s been done…
Uhhhh…I mean, you can stick whatever file type you want into a Word document as an object. Or just paste the text itself, but if you’re expecting Word/Office to render the game for you I can’t imagine any way that would work. Not without some custom plugin you’d probably have to write yourself.
The closest thing I can find is a tool that will turn SGFs into LaTeX markup, but you would need to know LaTeX (I’m a big fan but most people don’t even know what that is), and the tool only seems to exist for Ubuntu. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/xenial/+package/sgf2dg
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As far as I understand, SGF is source code (in pure text format) which an SGF interpreter (like CGoban or any other SGF manipulation program) interprets (executes live).
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_(computing)
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Game_Format
What we see in CGoban, or on OGS after uploading an SGF, is how the SGF is interpreted and visualised.
Therefore, as explained by @pbgarden, we’d need a plugin/extension/whatever that could …
- interpret/execute the SGF so as to show the board and moves played, and
- embed the visualisation of the interpreted SGF in the document
For the SGF specification see http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/