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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by dmitriid on Friday July 12, 2019 @02:23AM (#20418692)
> Sharing Excel sheets is extremely easy - you just mail them

Unless the other computer is set to a different locale and your data contains formatted numbers and dates. Then everything breaks.

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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by kyberias on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:54AM (#20419044)
Are you sure? I'm pretty sure Excel doesn't store numbers or dates in localized format.
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Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) by dmitriid on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:07AM (#20419104)
They may have finally fixed it in the later versions. I remember it being a pain in an office that had multiple locales on various PCs.
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