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Everyday I learn of horror stories about the number of spreadsheets crawling around an org - in the finance dept of one larger business 400,000!! Yesterday it was 100's of workbooks on a single desk top and wasting 10 minutes to find the required version. A $100m business outsources to India its weekly management forecasting process - 8 spreadsheet jockeys employed full time just to manage a core business process. wow.