Word and Excel should be more identical in their features

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A suggestion for Microsoft:
Excel has checkboxes that toggle, but no mail merge features. Word does mail
merge, but checkboxes don't toggle - they are only good for printing. Each
only does part of what I need for an electronic form. Wouldn't it be great if
the MS engineers would take each software's features and mimic it in the
other program, so all features are accessible from either?

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[JNW]

Some would argue that making both programs do the same thing is redundant.

Mail merge in word is capable of pulling information from excel. And
checkboxes in excel can be used, as I have used them before.

Microsoft isn't going to put all of its proverbial eggs in one basket
because it is in the business of making money, which it does by selling
multiple products (none of which conveniently does exactly what we need).