Creating tables in Microsoft Word used to be so annoying that most people just did it in Excel, then imported it into Word.

Use Word to create a chart from existing Excel data You don't need Microsoft Excel to chart data in an existing Excel file; you can simply import that data and chart it entirely in Microsoft Word.

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.