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0 pointsonphonenow4y ago0 comments

Just a note that many folks on platforms like dropbox / S3 etc turn on versioning of excel sheets if they are in paid status for this exact reason. It's not perfect, but it get's you a lot very very easily.

Version - date changed - who edited.

Add in the universal flexibility (both function and who can use it).

You can hand an excel file off to admin temp staff all the way to the top 3 folks in the org in one file and they can all interact with it successfully in most cases.

This makes this very powerful.

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stainforth4y ago· 1 in thread

What does "are in paid status" mean?

onphonenowOP4y ago

Paid plans either enable or give you longer version history 6 months minimum, some businesses bump that up to 1-2 years (it goes to 10 years with dropbox).

Same with google. Paid plans you can make sure a copy of all sent messages is kept, set retention rules etc. So if folks use email for all their approval / business flows that can be helpful (ie, some orgs CEO might send an email say I approve - go ahead and sign it on big deals rather than shuffling paper or doing a proper e-signature. If so, you might want to keep an archive org level of your email flows

Waterluvian4y ago

Yeah. It's like git is baked into the file.

I don't work with spreadsheets much but I completely understand why they're loved so much. They're data, code, presentation, versioning, etc. all in one file that has _very_ good support.

Excel is for the people who want to actually get stuff done and find all tooling a distraction from what actually adds value to the company.

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