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by rmbeard 1727 days ago
No-one is going to pay to version control Excel.
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Jtsummers 1727 days ago
Actually, people do. But it's not terribly fine-grained. SharePoint offers version control of MS Office documents and is used in many businesses as an improvement over shared drives and files named: Foo_Report_v3_FINAL_20210928_FINAL_DRAFT_FINAL.xlsx

I don't think you get branching with SharePoint, though.

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xupybd 1727 days ago
I'm about to pitch this to my manager. We have automated manufacturing going through Excel. It allows the domain experts to tweak the manufacturing process without having to learn to code.

The price is going to make this a difficult sell. If it was one off at $1000 easy but monthly per user...

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pjmlp 1726 days ago
They do, it is called Sharepoint.
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