> Surely MS research has shown that this is one of the great pain points with Excel/Word? Perhaps, but Microsoft is infamous for ignoring Excel's many faults.

> Surely MS research has shown that this is one of the great pain points with Excel/Word? Perhaps, but Microsoft is infamous for ignoring Excel's many faults. An article linked yesterday described a litany of very serious statistical errors of long standing, without any indication of a timetable to repair the defects.