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Subject:Re: For the love of spreadsheets From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:55:14 -0700
If the data fits naturally into a grid, a spreadsheet is the obvious
choice. If someone habitually puts all types of data in spreadsheets,
that probably means they spend most of their working days working with
spreadsheets.
Google Drive is not a document type, it's a cross-platform storage
system that can hold any file type.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
> ... I am doing a project where some analysis is called for, which I did. I wrote an executive summary. I put all the information I discovered into a Google Drive document, because it didn't need a spreadsheet, and shared it with the person with whom I am working.
>
> The response was basically, "That's great, but can I have it in a spreadsheet?"
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