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Imagine Excel with automatic cell-level revisions, with safe shared editing & control, with better automatic error checking. If someone does that, I'll guarante
by blrgeek 16y ago
Imagine Excel with automatic cell-level revisions, with safe shared editing & control, with better automatic error checking. If someone does that, I'll guarantee you that 'decision-makers' will switch very very fast.
You know the main problem with Excel? Finding out what changes were made, keeping updates between multiple teams/people in sync, sending the correct version of the doc. once updated, etc.
If Google Docs Excel was as good as Excel today (it still lacks quite a bit, esp in UI), we'd never use Excel, simply to save a huge amount of time syncing everybody.
- arethuza 16y agoOh I agree that Excel has problems. However, there is a huge ecosystem around Excel - lots of enterprise apps have tight Excel integration and an amazing amount of complex stuff gets done in VBA in Excel. As to your other point, I've actually persuaded quite a few (very bright) finance people how to use TortoiseSVN and they picked it up pretty easily and seems to work very well for them. Wire it up so that you use a sensible diff tool to show differences between revisions and it actually is pretty civilised. Almost like real code! ;-)