I agree. Tools exist, for analysts and engineers (MS Access comes to mind for the analyst, python for the engineer), that would rectify the problem. And I thin

I agree. Tools exist, for analysts and engineers (MS Access comes to mind for the analyst, python for the engineer), that would rectify the problem. And I think it's a fair assumption to say that those tools would be readily available. Kinda sounds like a management issue, as well. No one ever said "hey you know XLS doesn't support all of this data"? What a mess.