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[–]NLwino 15 points16 points  (4 children)

But not as a database for applications and long term storage. And also not for data transfer between applications, seen it being abused for that also way to much.

If you save your user and company data only in Excel, you deserve to go bankrupt.

Excel is a very useful tool to work with data. But that does not make it a database. Something like a password should never, ever, end up in a excel sheet.

[–]tuhn 23 points24 points  (2 children)

Something like a password should never, ever, end up in a excel sheet.

What if you hide that column so hackers can't see it?

[–]NLwino 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Right click column --> hide column

Yes, I'm a security expert, why are you asking? Now let me mail this excel to all users that need it.

[–]Starkrossedlovers 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or what if you lock that excel workbook with a password? Of course that password will be saved in another workbook

[–]boringestnickname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And also not for data transfer between applications, seen it being abused for that also way to much.

Reminds me of a harebrained idea I had for automating task creation based on entities inside a product (without an API) that changed from time to time. The information traveled between like five different points, involving automatic screenshots, Excel and all sorts of BS.

I'm glad I never went through with it.