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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by harperlee on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:29AM (#12452033)
But the problem you point to seems more related with the process than with the technology, right?

In any case, there is this Excel alternative, Resolver One, which has what I believe it is a killer feature: you can expose the Excel sheet as a web server. (With Excel, you would need to have a Sharepoint server for that, I believe).

That way any user can iterate a lot on an initial excel sheet but then their group can just work with the web version as an "immutable structure" sheet, and if a change needs to be done, you don't need to go and contact someone with appropriate permissions to upload a new version to the server, etc.

Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by jlongster on Thursday September 08, 2016 @02:23PM (#12455711)
That product is dead: https://www.resolversystems.com/
Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by harperlee on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:30PM (#12456988)
Didn't know! It would have been good if they had open sourced the product, seeing that they no longer support or sell it...