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.

You may rely on Microsoft Word to prepare business correspondence, lay out documents such as annual reports or create marketing materials, but Word also operates as a catch-all for existing documents.

How well do you know Word and Excel? These programs aren't just the most common tools in the Office suite, they're the all-around workhorses in your office. Yet there's a lot of power tucked away in ...