There is a reason everyone loves Microsoft Excel.  It’s simple.  Excel doesn’t confuse us when we see it.  I could find other good things to say about MS Excel – I could write about how it’s such a powerful application, or how versatile it is… but all that is less important than my real point: it’s easy to use.  Other software is versatile and powerful.  Web designers, database developers and applications developers all pride ourselves on adding bells and whistles to our…