WORD or Powerpoint to pruduce reports??

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your second post in our forum. Again it is Ron from STL training.

The question you are posting is an interesting one. Both Word and PowerPoint are suitable for creating reports. It is a matter of preference. If you need to present these reports to an audience, I would say PowerPoint would be the preferred application. If you need multiple pages in a readable and scrollable document with paragraphs and chapters then Word would be the preferred file type.

Both applications have the same tools to link Charts and Tables so in that sense there is no real difference. It is how you wish to use the output that is important as I explained above.

IT evolves and if you were to ask me what I would use for reporting then the answer would be Power BI Desktop and Power BI which are both fairly new applications developed by Microsoft. The purpose of Power BI is to connect to source data and create reports once the data connections are established. This tool is being used by more and more organisations to analyse their business data and will be one of the most important business applications in the future, undoubtedly as important as Excel is currently.

Have a look at some information on Power BI Desktop to see if this maight be a solution for your company maybe? STL can provide top quality courses on Power BI virtually through Microsoft Teams.

I hope this was useful to you.

If you need any more info, please reply to this post.

Again kind regards

Ron Oldeboom
Learning and Development Consultant
STL-training