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Excel is the universal format for the enterprise. Need to share a screen shot of your error? Paste it into excel. Project management? Excel. Database of asse
by overcast 9y ago
Excel is the universal format for the enterprise.
Need to share a screen shot of your error? Paste it into excel.
Project management? Excel.
Database of assets? Excel.
Transactional information? Excel.
Incredibly complex, multi page calculations? Excel.
Kill me.
- w4tson 9y agoI once saw a very detailed Gantt chart in MS Project detailing 6 months worth of lies about various projects would deliver. My colleague nudged me out of a stupor as I stared at the overhead projection. "Its Excel!" He whispered. "What are you on about?" I said. He was clearly mad. "The chart! He's done it in Excel". To my horror I began to see. This wasn't MS Project at all. It was subtle because the cells were so small they were almost no bigger than a pixel. I gasped and almost took the presentation off course. It was like a mosaic. A feat. I've never seen anything like it since. Still baffles me how much effort he must have put in and the pain he must've felt every time that crappy plan inevitably moved to the right.
- overcast 9y agoI'm not sure if we should commend, or condemn Microsoft for making a application that is so easily used by less than savvy end users.