> Rarely a reason to manually re-enter, even with Excel. I wish it was so. People using excel can get very — ahem — creative, of which I've encountered many a

> Rarely a reason to manually re-enter, even with Excel. I wish it was so. People using excel can get very — ahem — creative, of which I've encountered many a spreadsheet designed by some minion of hell, including (but not limited to): - a GIS implemented with cells, one cell per bitmap image block, and excel vector drawing features, with atrocious macros doing things - an insurance broker contract and customer database, whose records were separated by fuzzy formatting (like cell border colors and width), full of varying labels (typos and inconsistencies), and without specific cell placement for data, notably would-be primary keys. Every single one of them should be locked down in a digital safe, guarded night and day, only to serve as last-stand honeypot tactical weaponry on sufficiently smart cyberwar adversaries, who, once spoiled by the guarding words of "Abandon all sanity, ye who enter here", would quickly have their mind cower in fear back into reptilian neurologic territory[0]. The Snow Crash noise was probably one of those file's raw data. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Funniest_Joke_in_the_World