The problem is that many of these are xls files.
True, but unless still using .xls instead of .xlsx chances of reaching the row limit on a sheet became rather small, even for very large companies. Many issues with the everything in excel hell, but the row limit isn’t a main one (anymore).
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
stoy@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That is fair, I was perhaps a bit rash when bashing Excel on that point.
freebee@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It does still happen. Even in new projects. It happened in Britain on their big COVID19.xls sheet
www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988
stoy@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Oh yeah, I remember that one…
Thst is a classic example of what Excel is not used for.