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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (22 children)

What are features of Salesforce that is not possible to keep in spreadsheet?

I know spreadsheet don't scale but genuinely curious dif there is something that is not possible with excel.

[–] 9488fcea02a9 5 points 2 days ago (5 children)

everything is possible in excel... someone wrote a DOOM clone in excel.

I once worked at a company where someone hacked together a PO generating tool in excel 10 years prior and it just kind of stuck around even though the company grew into a billion dollar market cap public company

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Excel is a dev environment for us folks who aren't 100% sure what a dev environment actually is.

I've at least evolved to the point that I know better options exist, and higher ups should talk to the people who know what those options are and how they can leveraged. Those people are busy, though, so the cycle continues...

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