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.

Saving many graphic files for reuse is easy if you know these two tricks. Finding a Word document or PowerPoint presentation with graphics that you can reuse is a bit like finding buried treasure.

You can open or import a surprising number of file formats into Microsoft Word. Not to be confused with file formatting, which—in most programs—refers to the design of a page, file formats are little ...