>A poor workman blames his tools This phrase is used far too much when defending buggy or user-unfriendly software. A good workman forced to use bad tools won'

>A poor workman blames his tools This phrase is used far too much when defending buggy or user-unfriendly software. A good workman forced to use bad tools won't have a great time. I think Excel is better than its competitors but I'm not very familiar with academia. If what other users mention about being forced to reenter already complete data into Excel, which then arbitrarily converts entries into dates, is true, this is absolutely an issue with the tool and/or bureaucracy.