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Excel is super useful for the range of tasks where speed and transparency to business execs is more important than flexibility or maintenance.

Its great to rattle something off in a couple of hours that you can email to your boss to tinker with

It's absolute hell flicking through tabs trying to find a bug or trawling through stack overflow looking at grim VBA contortions which have one-liner equivalents in python.



With named ranges and named tables it is a hell of a lot easier to debug a sheet.

(Not commenting on VBA)


The problem is if enough people have been working on a sheet for long enough it becomes very difficult to replicate your work. this is particularly true for projects involving data processing and if they have poor version control practices.




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