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I think you'd be shocked by how many of our financial and social institutions rely on emailing Excel spreadsheets to one another.
by indy 6y ago
I think you'd be shocked by how many of our financial and social institutions rely on emailing Excel spreadsheets to one another.
- cscharenberg 6y agoDon't forget healthcare! Excel and CSV for tons of data exchange.
- sk5t 6y agoCSV is somewhat okay-ish. Excel, not so much (thanks Excel for discarding the important leading zeros in this field, and for lossily parsing the other as a date... oh, this Excel file is so big it got the "XLSB" treatment which is hard to undo)
- chasd00 6y agoI think the healthcare industry is probably the only thing keeping fax machines alive. Interestingly, fax machine are tagged as HIPPA compliant. Lots of spreadsheets get printed and then fed to the fax machine for transmission instead of email/whatever. On the other side, and i'm being serious, someone gets the fax and creates a new spreadsheet and enters all the rows manually. fun fun.
- colinmhayes 6y agoI am absolutely not shocked by that. Most people do not know how to insert into a db yet alone spin one up and add tables. Everyone can excel.