Yes, a friend of mine, one who seems pretty clueless generally when it comes to
matters IT, has made a massive spreadsheet for the church’s finances (probably
nowhere near the size of the “video game”, but big nonetheless). It turns out
he knows loads about Excel . . .
Chris
> On 15 Jan 17, at 21:54, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/15/2017 7:27 AM, Chris Trask wrote:
>> I have yet to encounter a situation where Excel was not adequate. I
>> previously had used Lotus 1-2-3.
>
> Not much you couldn't do with them. Because it was the ill advised spec., I
> created a whole normalized database info system with it. What a mess, but it
> got my foot in the door. Once it made the Chairman, Pres, CEO happy, I was
> able to recreate and expand it using a real database system. Darn thing is
> still alive, decades and acquisition by another company later.
>
> I made some pretty over the top spreadsheets, but the one Accounting made for
> annual budgeting was beyond amazing. Going in there was weirder than any
> video adventure game. I sometimes felt I might get lost and never get out.
> Having used 'real' financial planning and control systems on the mainframe
> before, I was amazed by that thing. If you lost the guy who (mostly)
> understood it, it was game over, start from scratch. This in an enormous,
> Fortune 500 company.
>
> Lost In the Formulae Moose
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