>"I need to be able to do basic maths on the side" I'm a marketer who echos the "pry it out of my cold dead hands" statement, and this is an interesting aspect

>"I need to be able to do basic maths on the side" I'm a marketer who echos the "pry it out of my cold dead hands" statement, and this is an interesting aspect of it that I hadn't thought as much about before. There's really something to be said for having ALL of the data and model at your finger tips for quick sidebar calculations, and there's something to be said for formatting tools to make it easier to read and work with. Often times I'm building a model or report, and need to do some quick checks against different assumptions, or have a little scratch pad of notes or placeholder values somewhere. Being able to just toss those into somewhere a few cells over so I can see things in context while I work is a godsend. If the model was built as something with a front-end that didn't expose everything, I'd have to manually copy that info out and just do it in a spreadsheet anyway. I get that there are times when it absolutely makes sense to not have things live in a spreadsheet, and what the risks are around that. But there's also risk in slowing things down, or not having certain things immediately jump out at you because you're seeing all the numbers change, and can quickly modify things as needed to check yourself.