my experience as well; i doubt any app has such extensive scripting support as Microsoft Excel; OmniGroup's apps omnioutliner and omnigrafle also had excellent

my experience as well; i doubt any app has such extensive scripting support as Microsoft Excel; OmniGroup's apps omnioutliner and omnigrafle also had excellent scripting support--demonstrable just by opening up an app's 'dictionary' using applescript editor (and comparing those dictionaries w/ the dictionary iphoto, itunes, etc.)