Special Edition Using Microsoft® Word 2000

Integrating Excel and Word

Word 2000 can perform a surprising number of calculations all by itself, as you learned in the "Calculating with Tables" section in Chapter 9, "Tables: Organizing Your Pages." However, it's not a dedicated spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.

Luckily, if you've installed Excel, you can call on it whenever you need extra number-crunching power. You can insert Excel spreadsheets or charts when you need the extra number-crunching power. Or perhaps you just want to take advantage of work already completed in one program, so you can avoid redoing it in another.

This integration between Word and Excel is a two-way street. Excel offers tremendous mathematical prowess, but it's obviously more limited than Word when it ...