Why It's Better to Create Tables in Excel In short, Word is a word processor, and Excel is a data processor. As a result, Word isn't built for optimal table creation, whereas its sibling, Excel, is.

How To Automate a Table in Word Using Excel. As the world's leading business productivity suite, Microsoft Office provides many useful features including the ability to automatically display data ...

As I've shown above, if you need to create a small table, you can do it in Word instead of Excel. It's easy to manage its layout, you can sort its data and perform basic calculations using formulas.

Changing numerous tables in a Word document one by one would be a tedious project. Instead, use VBA!

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.