Any of the pros able to advise i go back to excel?

hi all,
returning mac user going on about 3 years now and in love with a lot of stuff.
i am finding myself doing a good deal of spreadsheet stuff these days and will be doing a lot more. i have a couple of very involved ones that i set up in excel.
i have been working in numbers for some time now and have been finding it rather repetetive and (oddly) hard to customize cells without a lot of steps and redoing and resetting (i won't bore you) but can anyone provide some advice as to whether i might find it helpful to buy Office for the Mac and get back to working in excel?
i love mac but numbers has me spending too much time on simple stuff and i am thinking i am just not going to get it to the point where i need it to be for my needs.
thoughts? experiences?
THANKS

god. thanks.
it's like i have been working around a giant blind spot for a number of years now. this advice is a big help.
can i go so far as to ask if there are any other items i should look into tuning up? i am not finding Mail to be optimal and there is an issue with iCal not allowing events to travel across time zones which both seem to be somewhere on my list of items to address....
thanks kappy....

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