Tea to TechnologyEnglish • 9 hours ago$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet.www.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down18file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-link$16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet.www.theregister.comTea to TechnologyEnglish • 9 hours agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareAlphane MoonlinkEnglish4•7 hours agoNot if there is a BACKUP folder with daily copies of all your spreadsheets. Sifting through the backups is so much fun when you’re trying to find when a particular issue started.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 hours agoExcel is indeed super powerful. I’ve seen firsthand what they power in multiple Fortune 500 companies, and usually for a lot of critical tasks. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that this company was using it for finances.
Shift+F9… annnnd, the data is gone
Not if there is a BACKUP folder with daily copies of all your spreadsheets.
Sifting through the backups is so much fun when you’re trying to find when a particular issue started.
My backup is ctrl+z 😎
Excel is indeed super powerful. I’ve seen firsthand what they power in multiple Fortune 500 companies, and usually for a lot of critical tasks. It doesn’t surprise me in the least that this company was using it for finances.