Why Microsoft Mac Excel 2008 still sucks

I try to avoid using Word, but since there’s very little competition for Excel (especially in dealing with large amounts of data quickly), I’m stuck using it quite a lot. It could be that all the good stuff happened in Word and PowerPoint, but I kind of doubt it.

* Excel still gets confused when a second monitor goes away. New documents open on the second monitor that isn’t there anymore. I have to quit and re-open the application to get my windows back.

* Even though it’s now native for Intel Macs (took bloody well long enough), it’s just as slow on my MacBook as the previous iteration (irriration?) of Excel.

* Text file importing still has a horrible selection-display bug, where one is never sure what’s selected and what isn’t.

* What’s with the ugly proxy window resizing, people? It’s 2008! WTF!? Live window resizing is the way to go.

* Nonstandard icon bar at the top of the window? Have these people even used other Mac applications?* Speaking of the top of the window, what’s this “Sheets / Charts / SmartArt / WordArt” crap? That’s 40 vertical pixels I’m not getting back, people. How can I get rid of it? I can’t? Shoot.

* The Exposé-minimised windows don’t highlight properly when I hover over them.

* Speaking of Exposé, palettes are supposed to disappear, not be selectable. Oddly, the top part of the palettes highlight properly, unlike the document windows.

* It takes nearly 10 seconds to copy a simple number out of a large spreadsheet.

I can think of one single good thing: it does away with the 65,000-row limit and the 256-column limit. That’s it, that’s all. What were they doing for all those years?