Microsoft Word can accommodate a surprising number of file formats, and even take in Excel and PowerPoint data, though it might look funny. Here's how.

Double-click anywhere within the Word document to open it, making it editable. You can perform all Word features here, even though you are still in Excel, such as changing or reformatting text.

How to Merge Excel Data Into Word Documents. It's probably not surprising that going from one Microsoft Office program to another is simple, as the pieces of software were built to interact with ...

If you embedded the chart, you can double-click it inside the Word document to open Excel inside Microsoft Word. You can now make changes to the data or alter the chart formatting.