One nice thing about Microsoft Office applications is that they’ve been designed to talk to each other. For example, you can take an Excel chart and place it in a Word document to illustrate a report.

Create a table consisting of data or use an existing table consisting of data. Now highlight the table and then go to the Insert tab and click the Object button. An Object dialog box will open. Scroll ...

A Mini Excel spreadsheet will appear; edit the spreadsheet. When the Mini Excel spreadsheet appears, it will show you an example of how to format the Histogram chart. Enter some frequencies into the ...

A parabola is a curved line with particular characteristics. Any point on the curve is the same distance from a fixed point and a fixed straight line. The result looks like half of an ellipse or the ...

You don't have to launch Excel when you need to view data relationships graphically. Microsoft Word contains tools to produce colorful, professional looking graphs. A general Area chart that has ...

Mysticgeek, a blogger over at The How-To Geek's realm, posts a step-by-step tutorial to creating flow charts with presentation-worthy looks in Microsoft Word 2007. If you've got an eye for design, you ...