I do a similar list for a national chain that supplies spices and botanicals. I haven't ever done something in PagePlus where a table would be 100 pages long. In my experience of using multi-page tables in it, though, I wouldn't want to unless I didn't have other options. At the current price of PagePlus, I would be tempted to put up with performance issues. Though I might break it into a series of publications, produce the PDFs and combine them in Acrobat or another editor capable of so doing.
Depending upon how the Word document is made, you can likely copy the info and paste into Excel or another spreadsheet application, do any sorting, save out a tab delimited CSV file, rename it to have an .sdb extension, and import it into a table directly. These tables can be styled automatically. Though when there are header rows down in the data (kinda looks like that from the screen shot), those would need formatted manually.
The main list I do for this company runs some 300 pages, 2 times a year. In addition, there are price supplements during the intervening periods, and special lists for some of their distributors that do not carry the entire product lines.
The screen shot below is from QuarkXPress but I use a data merge XTension from Em Software called XData (Em Software makes the same thing for InDesign as well called what else, InData). I cannot imagine doing this work without it, especially if it is repetitive.
The below isn't using a table at all. It is simply styled with a rule every other row. Where products change, it uses a darker rule below the text. The data merge is controlled through rules and can be written to only use one header from the data file until it finds the next header change. The entire 300+ pages is imported fresh each revision from their database, the merge runs along at 50k records per minute. It's done and the whole thing styled in mere seconds.
The point to all this is if this will be a recurring job, consider other avenues (even though they are more costly) than PagePlus.
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