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Women’s Institute members “devastated” by spreadsheet error

May 21, 2015 By editor

Dozens of Women’s Institute members have been removed from a Buckingham Palace garden party guest list after spending hundreds of pounds on new outfits and train tickets to London. Too many tickets were assigned due to “an administrative error with the spreadsheet”.

We’ve written before about the problems with spreadsheets. They continue to cause misery.

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