> I think this is where Excel gets dangerous. To a certain type of mind (perhaps like mine), the enjoyment from forcing a non-compliant system to do your bidding is greater than the enjoyment of using the proper tool to do the job quickly and effectively.

You're hacking around with something for fun.

Other people? Not so much. EG, the guy who used MS Works spreadsheet (which was not loadable by anything else) for everything, including word processing. He'd open a spreadsheet, and type text in, and get "nicely" laid out documents.