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, ...

Microsoft Excel's quick-format chart and graph features offer a way to instantly convert your data-filled cells into a visual representation such as a pie chart or bar graph. But sometimes the charts ...