To always open supported Office hyperlinks in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint desktop app instead of the browser, follow these steps: Open Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or Excel. Click on the File menu.

Open the Excel spreadsheet containing the data you want to display in your Word document. Select the data you want to appear in the Word document and press "Ctrl-C" to copy it.

There are some functions in Excel that can be easily performed in Word. See which ones you can use.

Microsoft 365 is the de facto option. But if you just need to open, edit, and create basic documents, you don’t have to spend anything.