Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word are the two most commonly used software out of many that are available in the Microsoft office. Both are used to perform different functions, but some features are common to both software.
Microsoft Excel is an application that looks like a spreadsheet where data can be inputted in a manner that will help you get your desired results. There are different ways by which you can calculate different data that you are inputting in a way that will reveal their relationship.
On the other hand, Microsoft Word is a word processing program or application that can be used to type or write various documents. Microsoft word gives you a perfect environment to type and saves any type of document. While you can insert whatever operation you have saved on excel inside the Microsoft word, you can equally use a single cell of excel to type anything as though you're using Microsoft word.