Problems Creating Excel Tables in Word 2004

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I am used to using Word 2007 where you can create a spread***
directly in word without having to do so outside and insert it. It is
very easy, seamless and immediately. Word 2004 it is much more
involved. Is there any simple way I can create spreadsheets directly
in my word 2004 document like I do in the windows version? The way it
appears you have to do it- create the spread*** then insert is much
more time consuming.

I have to use lots of spreadsheets throughout documents to do
elaborate calculations and why tables are no good. Also, I want to
avoid having to create an excel item and then cut and paste it as I do
not have to do this with ooffice 2007 for windows. In that windows
version there is a button on the word toolbar, I click it and its
immediately inserts a blank spread*** IN the document and when I
modify it it is in the document and stays with it. I resize it, modify
it, etc., in the document, which is much easier, much faster, etc.

However, with Word 2004, I have to create a spread*** outside a
document and save it and then insert it, or copy it and paste it.
These extra steps may not sound like much, but it is one fourth as
fast as I can with Word 2007 or 2003. I want to use and move to the
MAC and am trying to figure out if there is a way to do this
similarly. If not, I may just have to park the MacBook Pro until the
new office 2008 comes out in the fall and hope it has a similar
capability. The other option I have is to use Parallels and Office
2007. I have done that and it works fine, but it involves a little
hassle.

Any ideas appreciated as I want to move permanently to the Mac.

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