win32 - Purpose of string table?

It's a way to have all your strings in one location. Say you have a bunch of different strings that get displayed to your user (labels, message boxes, etc.). Instead of having them peppered throughout your code, you can put them in a string table and use the LoadString() function in your code, where you wanted the string to appear. If it's practical or not, you can decide. It would, however, come in very handy if you ever wanted to ship your software in other languages, though.

Only reason really is for other languages, having them in one spot might help also if a writer decides they want to change something they can maybe find it easier. But imagine going through 20K files trying to find something that needs to be translated or something. Would be a nightmare.