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What is the worst use of an Excel spreadsheet that you have seen?

  1. Ricardo Rodrigues
    There was one person who used it to make a presentation, with each slide located on a separate sheet.
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  2. Dundee Lackey
    funny you should ask. I think I'm building it RIGHT NOW. :-) Seriously, though, I once worked at a talent agency that had me build a spreadsheet so they could click to see who had what talent. I never could convince them that at least 3 other options were easier to build and more user friendly.
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  3. Phil Gresham
    My old employers kept all their sales in a giant spreadsheet, and for a lot of records the columns wouldn't even line up correctly or in the right order. Access, people...
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  4. urandrod
    @RWW Someone I knew used Excel as their sole word processor because they did not know Word existed
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  5. BGen_Specific
    @RWW Someone has documented their entire network by adding borders and arrows to a spreadsheet. So there were boxes and lines.
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  6. DanTheITMan
    @RWW Managing an entire 1 million sqft warehouse's manpower assignments via an Excel worksheet #RWWBigQuestion
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  7. DpeerCland
    @RWW The worst use of an Excel spreadsheet that I've ever seen was the Microsoft Easter egg flight simulator!
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  9. Lin_Dolin
    @RWW you mean other than someone using a calculator then putting results in a spreadsheet? #Excel
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  10. bryangarvin
    “@RWW: What is the worst use of an Excel spreadsheet that you have seen? #RWWBigQuestion” -- For me: sending an image over email.
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  11. fignewtron
    @RWW Generating SQL insert statements from cell data. Which you do when no UI built for inserts. :(
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  12. branchespsp
    @RWW Got a clients wholesale garment inventory from Denmark that took 3pp 9 days just to sort into columns, rows suitable for upload! #FAIL
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  15. rajshahuk
    “@RWW: What is the worst use of an Excel spreadsheet that you have seen? #RWWBigQuestion” >> l have nightmares about monster spreadsheets!
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  16. davidrhoden
    @RWW Maybe not worst: I once used XL formulas to write web page HTML, where I had a lot of data that needed to go in a repeating template.
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  17. TigerWebStudios
    “@RWW: What is the worst use of an Excel spreadsheet that you have seen? #RWWBigQuestion” only once, but web design drafts. They were nt gd
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