Pat,
It's difficult to make an absolute yes/no recommendation. Much depends on
variables such as the system it will be used on, the size of the pictures and
other things I haven't thought of. It becomes a 'try it and see' scenario
where you must expect failure along the way, all the while hoping it'll work.

You haven't mentioned how this is to be published, or where? That could
play into it also. One thing you might think about, if it is something other
than a purely printed document, is to include links to the pictures of the
products rather than inserting the graphics themselves. First cell could
have hyperlink that says something as simple as [Click to view Product]. See
the worksheet HYPERLINK function for an easy way to setup such a link
(without having to Insert each hyperlink). This would greatly reduce the
size of the workbook, and help guarantee that it works as you want it to.
[note - second try, not sure if system truly accepted it first time or not]

"Pat" wrote:

Ok, thankyou for both your answers.

I do of course understand that Excel is for advanced calculating, however
with it's inviting input possibilities it feels so much easier using Excel as
supposed to pages with lots of free floating objects everywhere around.. I
might not have been clear enough as to what my pages are going to look like;
Imagine a landscape A4-page with maybe at most twenty rows and say five
columns, each first cell would contain a picture the remaining column/cells
are then used for input-data such as article-number, description, packaging
and prices. Just normal "data" so to speak.

Knowing this, my question is: Will Excel at some point fail because it
contains too much jpg-files, or can it handle the data?

Pat.