>> The only thing that I really hate about Excel is that Procs cannot be run in parallel, otherwise so many other cool things would be possible. I think Excel

>> The only thing that I really hate about Excel is that Procs cannot be run in parallel, otherwise so many other cool things would be possible. I think Excel 2007 and further, Excel 2010 improved on that. Pivot tables, formula calculations and many other addins (not sure about Solver) use multi-threading.