Re:Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-...
by zentiggr on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @09:54AM
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But Excel has never been a data platform. It's a spreadsheet.
It's user's faults for using it in ways that it was never designed for.
Excel has always been about sticking numbers in boxes and calculating with them.
If you want unmodified string input, input strings into a tool intended to handle them.
Project specifications can be hard. Using 1) .xls files after they were superseded, 2) ANY data transfer method without considering capacity or truncation issues, speaks of incompetence.
It's user's faults for using it in ways that it was never designed for.
Excel has always been about sticking numbers in boxes and calculating with them.
If you want unmodified string input, input strings into a tool intended to handle them.
Project specifications can be hard. Using 1) .xls files after they were superseded, 2) ANY data transfer method without considering capacity or truncation issues, speaks of incompetence.