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Just waiting for the other 20,000 Excel features to be added. :)

This may sound like an inane comment, but trying working along Excel power users for the past two decades. Most people have no idea of the crazy, huge, complicated environment that is Excel.

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Around my parts of the woods, people are very wary of putting an editable grid into a web-page.. because over years of maintenance, all editable grids tend towards excel, and excel has an infinite list of features for clients to request.

People abusing Excel really grinds my gears. Excel should pretty much be for financial/statistical computations only. People use it as a database, word processor, etc. which is just ridiculous.

Unfortunately, it works for them because people like the interface - i.e. a nicely modifiable grid of values. We're in dire need of an application that simplifies working with a database, and better table-editing tools in word processors.

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