One of the reasons Excel is still so popular for business processes compared to purpose-built apps. The main disadvantage (the user can go in and edit any data or formula that they want) is a feature to many users.
Yup. It's funny how this is even seen as disadvantage. It's as if you hired people to do a job, and then started to make that job difficult for them because you don't trust them to do their job right :).
Well, people make a LOT of mistakes with Excel. I once made one that caused the answer to be off by $60 million (out of $200m), and didn’t discover it until I had presented to senior management. I never told anyone.
Getting a rush of "all-asking-the-same-questions-in-slighly-different-ways" and "all-wanting-the-same-information-but-with-slightly-different-phrasing" information security questionnaires - CREATED AS EXCEL SPREADSHEETS.
If you want multiple-paragraph answers please stick a table in a document if you really must or, better still, base your enquiry on a standardised document - they do exist (https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/group/consensus-assessment... - albeit it's another bloomin' spreadsheet)
It's like job application hell (every company wanting you to put the same info into their specific questionnaire) in reverse.
Yay GDPR!
(Fortunately, most of my responses are now 'see our GDPR doc ref: nnnn, which covers this point')
Not in the EU, but the healthcare industry in the US is the same. So many "see answer to question 4", and going back to an earlier question when a later question clarifies its meaning. And then the answers are only used to check compliance boxes, and you end up answering all the same questions again when it comes to implementation.
