Anatomy of Word: Using Excel information in Word documents

This gallery is also available as a TechRepublic article and download.

Excel workbook information in Word

If you've tried to use Word's table feature to perform Excel-like work, you've probably had a frustrating experience. While Word's table function is good for very minor tasks and can perform some calculations, it doesn't even begin to touch what you can do in Excel. So, use Excel instead!

There are a number of different ways you can use Excel data in Word. Consider the Excel workbook shown above.