I'm not much of a techy blogger. I've got gadget joy and geek joy but I can't seem to summon up the tech joy to talk about packages, downloads and script. But I break that silence with a rant about Word. Well.. it's about excel too... and functions.

There's lots of little things I can do on excel that I can't do on word and stuff I do in word and can't in excel. For example: I can hide blocks of information in excel. Fantastic but if I want to do the same in Word I can't.

But why not use excel to create the sheet of information, I hear you ask? the people I work with don't like excel and think it's just for numbers and get all worried if something other than numbers appear in a spreadsheet.

There's not a download available to upgrade that kind of thinking!

Any suggestions on how to gently lead people into the light or force word to behave as if it's excel?