Spreadsheets are great – when you’re creating a spreadsheet. But software like Excel isn’t the right tool for a lot of tasks, and vast sins have been committed in the name of using this hammer for things that emphatically are not nails.The versatile spreadsheet has been used for formatting a resume, running a presentation, a rudimentary word processor, drawing pictures of a network’s infrastructure connections, a simple database, and even drawing a map

You can read more in my post today on Intuit’s “Fast Track” blog here.