The Task: I'm using Word to reformat some data from a table in Excel. Basically, the table is the working copy of the data - split into 35 or so columns.

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.

Link or Embed Data Open the Excel worksheet from which you want to extract data as well as the Word document into which you want to insert or embed the data.