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D. Slager, A. SlagerEssential Excel 2019https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6209-2_9

9. Auditing, Validating, and Protecting Your Data

David Slager1  and Annette Slager1
(1)
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
 

As the creator of an Excel workbook, it is your primary responsibility to ensure that the data in the worksheets have been entered correctly. You may not have control of the source of the data, but it is your responsibility to ensure that you enter the data you are given without error. Poor data and incorrect entries can ruin a business. Errors made in one location may proliferate to other areas in the workbook. Users may be incorporating the data from your workbooks into their own projects, or they may be using your workbooks ...

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