If you copy a table created in Excel 2010 and paste it in a Microsoft Word 2010 document, it will come with at least outside borders, if not all borders.

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.

Why It's Better to Create Tables in Excel In short, Word is a word processor, and Excel is a data processor. As a result, Word isn't built for optimal table creation, whereas its sibling, Excel, is.