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What's the worst thing you've seen Excel used for? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It started its life as a tool to track the contents of promotional SKU's, but different stakeholders kept adding increasingly complicated logic until it all depended on huge array formulas and VBA, and a recalculation took 1, then 2, then 5, then 15, then 30 minutes on a laptop, at which point we abandoned the whole thing and everyone went back to keeping track of their own piece manually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

lmao

Everyone has some great ideas, and everyone needs to put their ideas in the same spot. And everyone needs those complex formulas right in there...lol