>>I see the smiley but that has been completely true in my experience. I couldn't even begin to estimate how much time I have spent sucking Excel data into DBFs.
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>Argh, Exccel is my number one data gathering tool. I even create tricky Excel files to hand them over for input. Customers wishes ...

Been there, still haven't returned.

The point is that they do think that Excel is some kind of database and they use it so. It's just tables, right? It goes to the point where I tell them "well of course the physical inventory finds a discrepancy, if this thing was sold but the sale wasn't registered in the database." "But we entered it into the computer!" "May I see where?" - and at that point they pull up an excel sheet from their local documents folder...