Not at all: he is an excellent, dedicated doctor who is doing his best to keep me alive despite my various healh issues and a projected remaining lifespan of two years, so please do not insult him - or me!
I know that you have a reputation to keep up, but only where appropriate, please.
Ron.
Methinks what TB actually means is that a "Table" in a word document is a "more correct" method of recording tabulated data than simply entering data in a spread sheet, the design of which is to do a great deal more than simply tabulate data .... however, a great many folks have realised that using a spread sheet for tabulating data is a very easy way to do it..... just because a spread sheet can do amazing things doesn't mean you have to do them all the time .... just like the fact a car can do 130mph doesn't mean that's the only speed it is allowed to do ... unless TB is driving it !!!!
I work with carrot crunchers who seem to think its perfectly OK to give me complex platform designs on a single sheet Excel doc, or in a Powerpoint doc. And because the tools don't fit, esp Excel, they add comments to cells which then get lost in the mists of cut&paste into a bigger spreadsheet. Then they wonder why I tell them to use the right tools, because I'm already sick of rebuilding this poxy platform for the 3rd time, because I only had half the correct info given.
Fortunately, its only hundreds of servers, not thousands. But its still wasted time and effort, both in the real work, plus all the prep for the bollickings for why its running massively late... ...not that it needs much prep, as I just turn up with one of the pointless fluffy cloud waste of space powerpoint "designs" and use that as my defence.
So, yes, I do believe in using the right tool for the job. And Excel's job is complex calculations. And thus, I conclude that 99% of people using Excel are using the wrong tool.
I'll cut the OP some slack, as he wanted to use that to draw pretty graphs so his quack could look at them rather than the raw data. But nobody else.
Now my blood pressure is bozwonk.