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I would say over MS Word, this offers:

- Discoverability: when I was working on my invoice template, I looked all over the web, and found a bunch of garbage, before I eventually hand-crafted something in Excel

- Ease of use: Word templates can be annoying to fill out and format right, and they won't do the math for you. Excel will, but good luck getting it to print right every time, and heaven help you if you need more than one page.

- Fun: When was the last time you filled out a Word template and thought, wow, that was kind of cool!



For future reference, you can insert Excel tables (the type that do math) into your Word document. The magic of COM!




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