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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel Excel is dangerously overused? by davidgerard on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:34PM (#9525965)
I've had a manager who literally asked if we could work out some way to use a spreadsheet to do word processing in. This was DOS-era spreadsheets.
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Re:Ask HN: Do you feel Excel is dangerously overused? by brudgers on Monday May 11, 2015 @06:14PM (#9528208)
In fairness, in the days before MSDOS shipped with `edit`, using Lotus 123 was a big step up from edlin because you didn't have to hold so much in your head.
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