Excel tables have many benefits that regular spreadsheets lack. The biggest is the option to use data from multiple tables to create queries and reports.

Warnings When you use Excel to create complex spreadsheets like pivot tables, you must type all your labels on one row in order to use the data-management functions.

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.

After you have completed the following steps, the table in Word will be automatically updated whenever you change the data in the Excel spreadsheet document.

In Microsoft Excel, you can create relationships between two tables based on the matching data within the table, even when the tables are from different sources.

This column shows how to use the Data Table option in Excel’s What-If Analysis tool.