[ianmcgowan]

This would be great - I find people reach for excel out of familiarity when they need to keep track of textual information like tasks, issues, risks etc. Semi-structured data with a lot of text and not a lot of numbers can quickly become unworkable in excel. If the whole OLE thing had worked out things might be easier - being able to mix the data-wrangling of excel with the content manipulation of word would be awesome.

A really simplified version of access that works from one underlying spreadsheet as a data source perhaps?