When you're working with people who are good with Excel, they will notice. If you're only ok with excel and just use vlookups, then you're probably going to hav

When you're working with people who are good with Excel, they will notice. If you're only ok with excel and just use vlookups, then you're probably going to have problems, especially since those people don't tend to keep a versioned history of their files. Really the main difference is that version control has become an ingrained habit in software development whereas with Excel it's rare