People here don't seem to inderstand wuite why people use spreadsheets.
I knew someone who ised the spreadsheet supplied with MS Works (a truly hateful piece of software) to create fax cover sheets and notice signs and printed letters.
The spreadsheet was also used to creat Bills of material for electronic subcontracting. These would be printed out and then only the paper copy was relevant. (This worked better than you might think - that paperwork system had been refined over years and all the kinks ironed out. Everyone knew if a part had been ordered, arrived, booked in, kitted, issued to the shop floor, paid for by us and paid for as a final product by the customer. Moving from that paperwork system to sage line 100 was painful and produced a lot of confusion and kludges.
So, people like spreadsheets because they can get stuff done. To you it might seem like they're hammering in nails with the handle of a screwdriver, but the answer is to make better documentation and better software.
(Also I see people using screwdrivers and other handtools and I wonder why noone ever told them how to do it properly.)
I knew someone who ised the spreadsheet supplied with MS Works (a truly hateful piece of software) to create fax cover sheets and notice signs and printed letters.
The spreadsheet was also used to creat Bills of material for electronic subcontracting. These would be printed out and then only the paper copy was relevant. (This worked better than you might think - that paperwork system had been refined over years and all the kinks ironed out. Everyone knew if a part had been ordered, arrived, booked in, kitted, issued to the shop floor, paid for by us and paid for as a final product by the customer. Moving from that paperwork system to sage line 100 was painful and produced a lot of confusion and kludges.
So, people like spreadsheets because they can get stuff done. To you it might seem like they're hammering in nails with the handle of a screwdriver, but the answer is to make better documentation and better software.
(Also I see people using screwdrivers and other handtools and I wonder why noone ever told them how to do it properly.)