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Sharlin

I'm sure someone has already coined a law something like this:

The use of Excel expands until it fills the space of all use cases.

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To my knowledge, you still can't write an email client in Excel.

OK, maybe with plug-ins, but probably not natively.

Probably not.

Maybe.

Sure you can. It would mostly VBA and not using much of the spreadsheet part, but it's totally possible to do with native VBA code. No plug-ins needed, although you might have to cheat a bit with Win32 API calls depending on exact functionality.

In a rigid lattice, aye.

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