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Yes, but Google Sheets or shared Excel files in OneDrive. Otherwise the magic that is Excel gets lost in various versions in people's email attachments. Collaboration + Spreadsheet though truly is a versatile tool.



This isn't the problem you think it is.

The most common use case is via seed document. People grab the seed doc, modify for their specific case, input data, get results, stuff into Powerpoint, done, next.


In principle, I agree.

Excel files in onedrive don’t work very well. Some features are disabled (even merging cells), so very quickly you now have various versions plus a version on onedrive. You may think there is one master file but there probably isn’t.

Google sheets are better (and plotting and pivot tables are much easier to use) but there’s always someone who downloads as excel and makes a new version. I almost think google drive with much more friction to export would be better.




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