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Poe's law. If you use a spreadsheet as a DB for any sort of application, you should be tarred and feathered, and never infect any engineering team ever.

Your 'trifles' are the biggest screw-ups from functionality to INFOSEC.

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MS Excel is much much much much more accessible to the normal office worker than MS Access. It's not even close. As a kid, most of us intuitively picked up Excel but Access was a mystery even with a teacher in computer class trying to teach us the basics. Later I learned SQL to create websites, and graduated with a good CS degree, but the learning curve is uncomparable.

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