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I'm sorry, you're probably a nice person, kind to animals and children but still I kind of, well...

Excel, just say NO. Friends don't let friends use excel. Ever.

Microsoft has no interest in fixing the bugs, the bugs are extremely costly. People regularly misallocate resources based on excel bugs. These screw ups happen at vast scale with hugs sums of money and worse.

Here's a couple of links I didn't read closely. Any web search will find so very many it's silly.

http://andrewgelman.com/2013/04/17/excel-bashing/ https://oit.utk.edu/research/documentation/Documents/ExcelSt...

Gnumeric is better than excel.



"Microsoft has lots of top researchers so it’s hard for me to understand how Excel can remain so crappy." --Andrew Gelman

It really is a real problem.




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