based on posts from several months ago I can see it is a well established fact that design tables do not work with office 2010 in any version of SW.  i can confirm that this is the case on my new computer (running SW 2011 sp0).

anyone know if SW is fixing this issue? why does SW use excel for design tables, why not a universal format like csv?

if not i find it alarming that anyone with a computer purchased in the past year having the new version of office can't edit or create design tables.  this is an annoyance for me, but I assume for others this would be flat out crippling.