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That’s probably true, but in the most of the cases when it gets too complicataed for Google Sheets it shouldn’t be a spreadsheet at all. KPMG consultants sent u
by ymolodtsov 7y ago
That’s probably true, but in the most of the cases when it gets too complicataed for Google Sheets it shouldn’t be a spreadsheet at all.
KPMG consultants sent us a lot of forms built in spreadsheets and that’s an abomination that should have been a simple webpage.
- crispyambulance 7y agoI'm not going to defend KPMG, but spreadsheets are how things get done when you're in your cube and you just need it done. Spinning up "a webpage form" in a corporate environment has A LOT of overhead and complications. It can't be done on the fly. In many places, creating "a webpage" means putting up something on Sharepoint and possibly dealing with it's BOFH. That's a rabbit-hole I would not wish on my worst enemy!
- Vaslo 7y agoYou are definitely right, but there are practical issues. I have a very tight budget that never lets me invest in new tools. Our team has learned (well as much as you can learn) VBA to solve more complex issues in Excel because it's easy to hand a complicated spreadsheet over to a non technical colleague get feedback rather than have an application developed. I'd love to learn how to do that kind of stuff, believe me, but it's just not where we spend our budget dollars. There's also info security concerns, and yes, you can argue how secure is a spreadsheet, but a cool tool like Publisheet will never get approved because we'd be sending all our data server side.