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Excel hell

After an Excel error was blamed for 16,000 coronavirus cases being missed by the Track and Trace scheme, Covernet business development director Jim Campbell considers how insurers, brokers and managing general agents can avoid their own ‘Excel hell’.

How many times have you downloaded a bank statement and had this warning pop up when you saved it: ‘Your spreadsheet may contain features that are not compatible with CSV (Comma Delimited). Do you

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