On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:12:24 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:

Despite the Home and Student edition name, IMO, Word is laced with
features the average home user will never, ever need. And too many
people want Word to do things you really shouldn't use it for. Such as
page layout, for which there are other cheaper and easier products to
use. Even free ones.

Well, at least you didn't continue down that road and tell us that Excel
should only be used for traditional spreadsheet tasks. :-)

Excel is almost perfect for manipulating very large text files, such as
configuration files for specific network equipment. Just today, I needed
to make a few thousand transformations on a config file of about 200,000
lines. Excel is amazing at how well it works for that, (using formulas),
and that's before you bring VBA into the picture. With VBA, I don't
think there's anything it can't do to a text file, especially now that
the 65,535-row limit is gone. I use a text editor, Notepad++, for light
editing tasks, but when I'm in the deep end of the pool I reach for
Excel.