A friend of mine has created a list of books for his school library in MS Word. It is about 30 pages long.

It's a tab delimited list that currently has the author's name, the title of the book and a unique number for each book. The list is not used for keeping track of students who borrow the books.

I'm wondering what advantages there might be in converting the Word document to Excel?

I guess converting it to Excel would make it possible to sort each of the columns alphabetically but I wonder what other advantages there might be?

Thank you advance for your advice!!