Can someone help me determine what the general process involved in
accomplishing the following task would be? I am trying to automate a system
in which data from a CSV file is used to automatically populate various
tables in an Excel worksheet. I then want those tables to be linked to a
Word document.

So basically, I have a program that generates a CSV output with all of the
data that I need for my charts and tables and some of the text in my final
Word report. I am clearly not a programmer, and not what I would call an
advanced Excel user, but I need to accomplish this automation. Can someone
tell me where to begin to look to find out how to do this? Am I going to be
programming macros, or is their some proprietary piece of software that I
will need. Thanks a lot.