You might take one look at the neat row-and-column arrangement of Word tables and dis-
miss them out of hand as a pale imitation of Excel worksheets. Big mistake.
In fact, Word tables are at their weakest when pressed into service as repositories for rows
and columns of numbers. Word has a paltry selection of tools for working with numbers. If
you want to do any sort of arithmetic in a Word document—anything more complex than
an occasional sum or product on a small handful of data—you’re far better off embedding or
linking an Excel range inside your Word document, even if you have to learn ...
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