For simple comparisons or lists, Word tables are enough. They can be created quickly and are easy to customize. However, if you have more complex requirements, and would like to, for example, have recourse to mathematical formulas and abundant data analyses, Excel would be more to your benefit. The Office suite’s table calculation software is specifically designed for such tasks. Its advantage is that it makes it possible to incorporate an Excel table into a Word document.
For this Microsoft provides you with two different versions: Either you integrate an existing Excel table into the document, or you create a new Excel table directly in Word. For the first approach, you must first create a table in the calculation program. Then you can select this table, copy it and insert it into Word. In word processing, you then format the table so that it is consistent with the rest of the document.