Excel is decent considering, but the development *is* targeted to the marginal user, not the power user. The thing that's worst for me is how the charting features are identical to what they were 10+ years ago, you can't even do a 3d scatter plot. So what do they do for charts in Excel 2007? Add fancy graphics to all the charts, that's it. As if the graphics abuses in corporate America weren't egregious enough. Anyway Excel is at least a useful program, Word is kind of a joke, all that web integration stuff MSFT spent so much time on is unused by amost anyone. The whole autocorrect, autoformat thing is a nightmare for anyone who has a clue what they are doing. PowerPoint is really insubstantial, if people had to pay for it separately they would buy something different.