[nameiscarl]

TLDR.

Excel is a tool. The major problem is the dimwits (mainly in suits) that use Excel instead of thinking. Anyone can make a decision if $A$1 > $B$1 + $C$1.

When an Excel formula is doing the thinking for you, this is a bad sign. For you as a person. And for your job that will be shipped some day. To India (no offense to the nice chaps over there). Or to some ERP module (no offense to SAP).

Please be a nice human being : be smart.

[hef19898]

Agree on India, but SAP? Nahh, the time they want to do that the guy that put the Excel file in place in the late ninties already had his job shipped to india a couple of years ago. And now there's nobody left who understands what this excel file is doing.

And putting that into SAP is way to expensive, as long as you can still port the Excel file to Office 2010, that is. If you can't, you'd have to ship the company to India...