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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by collyw on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:29PM (#9607435)
Excel was created to be used as a spreadsheet, yet I am pretty sure it is used as a database far more often.
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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by Qwertious on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @07:29PM (#9608346)
The #1 use for Excel is actually lists, you know. Ask Joel Spolsky, who used to be the project lead for the Excel team. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
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Re:Why PowerPoint should be banned by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @08:30PM (#9608550)
It's amazing how long this has been going on, yet a user-friendly database app hasn't supplanted it.
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