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Pretty wrong. It's a huge bloated mess that takes forever to lead and can be used to store data and code seamlessly in cells to make a single document holding both presentation and logic. Excel suffers from being a microsoft product, not from a being a bad idea. Spreadsheets are a fucking great idea. Visual programming, code as data, etc etc.

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I disagree. It isn't reproducible AND people make mistakes and then present papers and other outcomes that later is shown to be false.

Spreadsheets are treated as Swiss Army Knifes. People believe all they need to do anything is Word and Excel.

When dealing with non tech-savy people on data (reports), Excel is perfectly fine (especially pivot tables, conditional formatting, etc...).

Anything else is obviously a mess - and people can use gDocs or OpenOffice for that as well.

What could the same people who are using excel have used instead that would have prevented them from making an error in their steps of calculation?

What's wrong?

Spreadsheets are great for all sorts of reasons. However, they are not some magical tool that makes csv files usable.

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