How to Export Data From Word to Excel
by Shawn McClain, Demand Media
Running a business is often just as much about document management as it is about people and product management. Understanding how the various Microsoft Office brands interact with each other can help you better control your data so you wind up with documents looking exactly as you want them to. At first glance, you may expect Word and Excel to work seamlessly together; however, you must consider that you are taking a document with text laid out in paragraphs and turning it into a field of cells. To help with the issue, both Word and Excel have certain feature sets that can help you transition your document into a spreadsheet by taking the intermediate step of turning it into a plain-text file.