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Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets

Aging Hippy

Re: I don't think the problem is Excel

The fact that Excel is the wrong tool for the job is irrelevant here. Hasn't anyone heard of reconciliation totals. At its most primitive:

number of tests received at centre = number of tests sent = number of tests done

Either the person "designing" the system had no idea or, more likely, their manager thought it was a waste of time.

Punishment should be to be taken back to the 60s and made to feed several boxes of 2000 cards into a card reader which rejects 1 in 100 while the PFY drops several handfuls onto the floor. Reliability breeds laziness.

Excel does have a purpose here - it's presenting the reconciliation totals for all files received.

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