Link or Embed The terms that Microsoft uses for putting an object from one application inside another are linking and embedding. When you link a chart from an Excel worksheet to a Word document, the ...

Microsoft Word offers a special feature that allows you to insert an Excel spreadsheet quickly. Using the object insertion feature, you can also embed PowerPoint slides in a Word document.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.