Launch Microsoft Office Excel 2010 and open the spreadsheet that contains the data you want to insert into the Word document. Press "Ctrl-A" to select the entire spreadsheet.

To add typical shapes like circles, rectangles, and triangles in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, you have to go to the Insert tab.

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.