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freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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).

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stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That is fair, I was perhaps a bit rash when bashing Excel on that point.

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- freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
  
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  - stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh yeah, I remember that one…
    
    Thst is a classic example of what Excel is not used for.
    
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EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The problem is that many of these are xls files.

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