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.

Word and Excel are both part of the larger Microsoft package, so it's no surprise they play well together. Exce*l* is a great tool for gathering information in a database format, such as names, ...

An Excel Spreadsheet is a file that contains columns and rows. All the rows are numbered (row 1, row 2, row 3, etc) and the columns are listed alphabetically (column A, column B, etc.) Each cell is ...

How to easily include dynamic dates in a Word doc using Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a ...

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