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.

Microsoft Excel’s mobile app lets you to take a picture of a table and paste the data directly into your spreadsheet. Here's how to use it.

You can do a mail merge in Microsoft Word and Excel to create personalized documents for many recipients at once.