{"id":65081,"date":"2026-10-15T19:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/?p=65081"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:45:02","slug":"i-never-trust-someone-elses-excel-file-until-i-check-these-5-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/i-never-trust-someone-elses-excel-file-until-i-check-these-5-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I never trust someone else&#8217;s Excel file until I check these 5 things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never trust someone else&#8217;s Excel file until I check these 5 things<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-never-trust-someone-elses-excel-file-until-i-check-these-things\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-never-trust-someone-elses-excel-file-until-i-check-these-things\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Check for external links before anything else. A file that quietly leans on another file<\/li>\n<li>Unhide every row before trusting totals. Gaps in the row numbers give it away<\/li>\n<li>Spot numbers that Excel treats as text. Left-aligned digits that SUM skips<\/li>\n<li>Reveal totals someone typed by hand. A total that never updates<\/li>\n<li>Catch the formula that breaks the pattern. One cell, one different reference<\/li>\n<li>Make the next person&#8217;s audit shorter. What I change in files I send out<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never trust someone else&#8217;s Excel file until I check these 5 things https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-never-trust-someone-elses-excel-file-until-i-check-these-things\/ Check for external links before anything else. A file that quietly leans on another file Unhide every row before trusting totals. Gaps in the row numbers give it away Spot numbers that Excel treats as text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-office"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65082,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65081\/revisions\/65082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}