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Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by theshrike79 on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:13PM (#36198467)
Nope.

Source: SO works in a field where they handle other people's money and payroll. Not a small mom & pop shop either.

The employees use Excel sheets handed over from "someone" and just plug in the numbers.

In Britain they messed up the covid numbers because they used the wrong format to store their infection numbers and lost all lines after 65534...

Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by veave on Monday June 05, 2023 @12:33PM (#36198828)
I was paid once to turn an Excel sheet into a basic website because the employees kept inadvertently messing with the formulas...
Re:Technical error with Excel.swapped names.Andreas Babler e... by pradn on Monday June 05, 2023 @01:44PM (#36200054)
The startup that became Google Sheets was basically an Excel->HTML conversion tool.