I am doing a summer internship and people use excel for everything even if it can be done in word. A project brief doesn't need to be done in excel it can be done in word.
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finance is all about calculating things....so of course excel is the natural place to do that. using excel to write a project brief is just being lazy out of habit...but if it works..then it works.
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