The vast majority of Excel users are either too lazy to use word properly, or too stupid to use a database properly.
A spreadsheet sheet programme like Excel "should" be used for mathematical applications like book-keeping, accountancy, or variable computations where a single input can be used to project numerous solutions in real time, it should not be used for data capture and analysis as is often done now.
When I did my degree we were allowed to use Excel type programmes to obtain results/projections, but then had to use database programmes like Access to hold the results under different scenarios, then use a word processor to "write up" the results in the correct form... all done so we knew which programme to use for which job ...
'twas a pain switching from one to another, but it did teach discipline ....
I'm now the secretary of a fairly large "club" and every week receive a membership update .... in Excel !! simply because the idiots at head office "think" that tabulating data can ONLY be done in a spread sheet !! ... if only they knew ...
Yup its a giant table of data, and not a mathematical link between a single cell anywhere ... crying out to be a "proper" database ...
They don't know that I "import" to a data base so that I can actually search and query it with ease !!