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Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by bernardv on Saturday February 13, 2021 @08:07PM (#26128704)
I second that. While it has plenty of flaws and is getting very dated, Excel has been a phenomenal tool in the land of the analysts and others who actually need to get work done and move on.
Re:The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook by lanstin on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:00AM (#26129829)
I had a big OS migration project, where we moved all the RHEL machines to Ubuntu. We had a big set of Python scripts that would go out and query a bunch of databases and logging system to get the current state of the migration each day, but we published the results as a spreadsheet that was emailed rather than some website. It worked very well to get people data they needed and to put it in a form where they could ask their own questions of the data without talking to anyone else. It worked better than I expected, having not used excel for decades.