Word processing programs are usually used to process texts and pictures wheras spreadsheet programs are used to process numbers and formulas.
A spreadsheet app has rows and columns. Word processing just goes down the page.
Excel is a spreadsheet program that is marketed by Microsoft. Word is a word processing program that is marketed by the same company.
excel is for Spreadsheet Word Processing.. e.g. MS Word, NotePad, Word pad.. etc..
Word processing
Spreadsheet contains the following letters before the word sheet: S, P, A, and D. Worksheet does not contain those four letters before the word sheet.
Word: Is used to Create / Edit Word Processing documents Excel: Is used to Create / Edit Spreadsheet Calculations Hope this helps
A software suite
MS Word (word processing) - Create a letter. MS Excel (spreadsheet) - Create a budget. MS PowerPoint - Create a briefing.
Select the data in the spreadsheet and copy it. Go to the Word document and in the Edit menu pick Paste Special and Paste Link. A link will be established so that when the spreadsheet changes, the data in the word processing document will also change.
If it is linked then when the data in the spreadsheet is changed, that change will show in the Word document. If it is embedded, then changes in the spreadsheet will not have any effect on the figures in the Word document.
There are several freeware alternatives; one that is fairly popular is OpenOffice, which includes a word processing program similar to Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet program similar to Excel, and some other programs.
Any printed item can be called a document. Usually, related to computer applications, a document referrs to a word processing output, while a spreadsheet referrs to output from a spreadsheet program, like MS Excel.