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Originally Posted by drhowarddrfine
That sounds like a strange use for a spreadsheet.
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On the contrary, managers, administrative assistants, & Human Relations personnel tend to live in Microsoft Office
(and/or Microsoft Project...). Creating a list of new employees for the coming week is frequently in the purview of HR-types & distributed to managers who either have new charges coming into their departments or passed on to IT personnel & payroll to ensure that all bureaucratic paperwork is completed by the time these new people start.
Converting back-&-forth between CSV & Excel's native format has been a product feature since day one, & of course, manipulating comma separated value records is exceptionally easy in Perl or any other language which supports regular expressions.
Collaterally, I have seen technical writers keep track of API calls they have to include in printed documentation in either Excel spreadsheets or Access databases -- both of which I have written Perl scripts to manipulate.
Microsoft Office has been a huge money maker for a reason. Much of business lives in the various applications.