Is there ever a good reason for putting mostly all text into Excel rather
than a Word table? At my level of knowledge, I certainly can't imagine what
advantage there would be.

However, upon request, I recently placed over 20 pages into Excel, only one
column of which contained ID numbers while the other 7 columns contained
paragraphs of text, which was--for me, at least--a formatting nightmare.

Do you have any words of wisdom that I can relate to my superiors that might
in some way help them to see that Word would have been a much better choice?

Or am I wrong? Could there possibly be a reason?