My biggest love of designing (document layout) in a spreadsheet is that I can set oh so many format bits a certain way, say a column width and it stays the same

My biggest love of designing (document layout) in a spreadsheet is that I can set oh so many format bits a certain way, say a column width and it stays the same. Compared to the last couple days at work, where a previously existing dynamic(ish) table of contents in a word document is driving me absolutely batty with how it tries and/or fails to format lines as I edit them to reflect further changes to the document. I want to scream and tear my hair out, good god.