>>>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 ...
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>Been there, still haven't returned.
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>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...

But they pull the second last version assigned for manager only - where the data is faked and important columns are missing
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I love this approach.