Spreadsheets for the win

Last Update: 07.05.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

I was chatting with another dev today and he told me a story of wonderful Excel usage. It always amazes me what people dare to maintain with Excel.

They were keeping work schedules in a system. Unfortunately, the system did lack some features, so they exported a temp schedule in Excel, did some magic with it to get the work schedule for multiple teams. So, the important parts were done in Excel again. Interestingly, the did not change the system but rather stick to their Excel solution. Oh and it included much logic written in VBA.

Sadly, he did not know, why they did not enhance the system. Whatever the reason was, Excel seemed to be the simpler and less expensive one. At least, at first sight.

What cool spreadsheet solutions did you encounter so far?