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Hidden tables in your doc
Be careful with tables and keep focus
permits to blends structured with unstructured data elegantly and with little effort. The structured data lives mainly in tables. These tables are the core of any doc. You rarely start writing pages full of text without having a table. It is mostly the other way around. You set up tables and you blend data living in tables with your text like a contract.
When you say table, you say formula and when you say formula you say functions and this implies logic and reasoning. Indeed some functions are difficult and there is nothing wrong with having difficult functions in your table helping you navigating your work. Reflection requires effort, although when you solve many comparable puzzles like I do, it gets faster and cleaner over time. It is a matter of practicing like driving a car or getting on a bike.
The set up anticipates that most users in the doc are not doc makers, are thus not ones that set up tables, work with functions to create formulas and so on. Most users are editors with a passive knowledge. They understand the outcome when they hit a button, but are often unaware of what is required to get the desired outcome. That is okay. Driving a car does not require you to become a mechanic.
