Excel and Word are two of the most powerful programs in the Microsoft Office Suite. When combined, they can help people create comprehensive documents that contain data and text from multiple sources.

One nice thing about Microsoft Office applications is that they’ve been designed to talk to each other. For example, you can take an Excel chart and place it in a Word document to illustrate a report.

You can link an Excel sheet to Word, so updates happen automatically when data changes. Embedding an Excel file as an object puts all its data into your Word document. You can also insert a new Excel ...

There are pros and cons to simple pastes, pasting a worksheet image, embedding the worksheet, or linking to it in your Word doc. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor ...