textedit formatting capabilities+excel inserts

[Justin Harford]

My DOR counsilor's tech guy also said that textedit can't handle really 
advanced formatting like tables, graphs, columbs etc.  He specifically 
mentioned the coppying and pasting of excel information into documents being 
read by textedit.  What has been your experience with this sort of thing?  If 
there are any students on this list, how many times have you encountered need 
for this formatting capability?