Stop Using Spreadsheets—There's a Better Way!

15 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Marc Haine. This content was uploaded by Marc Haine. This is a YouTube video titled "Stop Using Spreadsheets—There's a Better Way!" (published 2025-11-15) containing a short multi-speaker discussion between SPEAKER A and Marc Haine. The speakers discuss replacing spreadsheets with SharePoint/web-based solutions to centralize operational workflows and IT asset tracking (for example, using SharePoint to find which equipment an employee has instead of scrolling through spreadsheets).

The second thing is eliminating spreadsheets. Uh, I think SharePoint is extremely effective at eliminating spreadsheets. If you have 4 or 5 spreadsheets that you need to run for operations and maybe just one department in your organization, you can eliminate that whole thing and just make it a website. Imagine putting that on a website is what I'm trying to explain and getting rid of a spreadsheet. And anytime anybody needs it inside of the IT department, they go to one link.
So again, when you put it into a spreadsheet, the idea with the spreadsheet is it's At some point, you're going to need the data. So if I wanted to know what equipment John has and when it needs to be updated, I could just go to the SharePoint and do the search on SharePoint as opposed to scrolling down how many computers there are in this organization and who's got them.
You're already paying for this technology. You could create a full-blown solution on SharePoint that has zero To Do It documents.