>Transfering large amounts of data is one reason I am using it. But I also find it easier and quicker to set up a "template" in Excel with all my cell formatting. I do a lot of borders and shading and it would be tedious for the program to do all this stuff for each cell programmatically. The way I'm currently doing it, the program just has to dump in the data and then copy the cell formats.

Why don't you just save an excel file with the formatting that you need and then open it and "save as" whenever you need to use those styles?

Alex