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		rtsil on Feb 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The worst of the two worlds: Excel meets Outlook The most painful thing for me, but not to ordinary users, is that the formulas are localized in the user's language.

Seanambers on Feb 14, 2021 | [–]

This is a big one, especially if your edition isn't English/US.

Also the number formats and locale settings can cause quite a bit of trouble, if its not English/US. Alot of data warehouse setups output files with U.S formats even in Europe.

rwoerz on Feb 14, 2021 | [–]

+1 The devil has many names. VLOOKUP and SVERWEIS (German) are two of them.

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