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by mmckelvy 1777 days ago
I think a lot of the "problems" with using large scale spreadsheets can be somewhat ameliorated by moving the underlying data to a proper database and then using the spreadsheet as a GUI / interactive analytical tool. Now that you can make external API calls in Excel[1], this actually seems doable.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/scripts/develop/...