The table thing is so true. I was insistent on using LaTeX in school and on lab reports I actually ended up building a web-based tool that would convert xlsx fi

The table thing is so true. I was insistent on using LaTeX in school and on lab reports I actually ended up building a web-based tool that would convert xlsx files into LaTeX tables I could easily embed with my data. It was pretty janky but worked well enough to save me some time. I haven't much if anything to it since about 2011 and it still sees a decent amount of traffic which tells me there's still not great solutions to the problem!