Sneering at Excel is a sign of someone who doesn't understand the goals of business and in many cases why they're employed. They aren't employed to code nice ap

Sneering at Excel is a sign of someone who doesn't understand the goals of business and in many cases why they're employed. They aren't employed to code nice apps in $language, that's HOW they do their job of making the business run more smoothly. I've built "apps" in Excel - simple stupid crap for doctors to enter hospital charges, etc. There's no database backend, lookup is "is there already a sheet for this patient?" Creating a new sheet is clicking the shortcut to the template and entering the patient's name, the hospital and the month, saving is closing and accepting the generated file name. Training was minimal, backend is office staff, and it's lasted through 2 separate billing systems. Development was simple form layout, locking cells, adding a few dropdown lists to populate cells, and setting up a couple of button/autoclose vbscript macros. Cheap, simple, lets doctors capture charges that are worth more in one week than I was paid for the development 5+ years ago.