[juped]

By far the worst UI choice in Excel, which has stopped many potential power users from forming, is that "Format as Table" is named like a visual formatting option, is stuck on the ribbon next to visual formatting options, and prominently makes you pick colors and border formatting.

Whereas the reality is that making a table is the on-ramp to many of Excel's more powerful features.

[galaxyLogic]

I imagine that some developer or team had to hide such useful features under the name of "table formatting" because they could not get the ideas through in their organization. Don't know but I imagine.