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Comment by CodeWriter23

> This spreadsheet was the primary data file

>> - as crappy as that is, thats pretty common.

No. This is not a common practice. An Accounting / ERP system with full audit trails and data entry compliance is. Exporting data from such a system into Excel for analysis is. But Excel as the [re-reads] Primary data file is not a practice at all.

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