Excel does many things well, but it goes without saying many things could be vastly improved, or at the very least shown a bit of love by Microsoft.

One particular thing in Excel that that causes me some frustration is Excels inbuilt spellchecker.

Why? Because it’s infinitely more shit than the spellchecker in any of the other office products for a start.

This personal view is primarily born out of using Excel for the purposes of recording text based queries and responses as part of structural peer reviews. I use it as a log of sorts to log questions, responses and the like. The tabular nature of Excel lends itself to this application.

I’ve had logs that stretch to 40 odd A3 sized sheets full of queries when stuff goes a bit pear shaped and the designer has a ‘few’ (read ‘a lot of’) items to address, confirm, clarify, etc.