Dear Bureaucrat, Our computer system is useless

Spreadsheets are the most common form, but people also use templates, macros, web-based file sharing services, etc. Add hyperlinks to each step that open the files you will need with a single click — spreadsheets you need to record data in, address lists of people who should receive that step’s email, boilerplate text for notices you need to send, etc. Of all the cuff system techniques, the one that saves me the most time is using conditional formatting and lookup functions to make spreadsheets check for errors and automatically summarize data into the tables I need to present.

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