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Excel has versioning now! But it doesn’t work when people email around hard copies instead of links to the shared file, which they still constantly do. >:-O
by itsdrewmiller 5y ago
Excel has versioning now! But it doesn’t work when people email around hard copies instead of links to the shared file, which they still constantly do. >:-O
- dragonwriter 5y ago> email around hard copies I get what you mean but...
- gopher_space 5y agoOne of the problems with Excel at scale is that different departments within the same organization might use completely different approaches. Different people in the same department night. When you add versioning what you may end up with is an out-of-date "master" that's occasionally updated from the spreadsheets everyone is still passing around via email. The email thing happens because that's how people who use Excel handle versioning. They'll end up with nested folders of emailed spreadsheets they can refer to or import into their personal approach. This works well for them, especially since they might work offline frequently.
- sbierwagen 5y ago>instead of links to the shared file So you mean Excel 365, not desktop Excel?
- CRConrad 5y agoCould mean links in the form of SharePoint / OneNote location of a spreadsheet file to edit with desktop Excel.