A prestigious university in London, Student Union is on new version of Excel, College Administration is still on old. Financial data is forwarded on spreadsheets (because of incompatible systems - Pegasus Opera vs something written in PowerHouse). Of course, at some point, the 2^16 row limit is breached. The old version doesn't complain but merely drops the excess. Fortunately the receiving bean counter runs their own tests on the data and realises there is a problem - but not what it is. Took a while for the underlying issue to be recognised (and then for the admin departments to move forward).
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