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Spreadsheet Rescue

Somewhere in the business there's a spreadsheet everything depends on: inventory, pricing, orders, or all three. It works until someone sorts one column, overwrites a formula, or saves a copy called FINAL_v3. Spreadsheet Rescue keeps your data and your logic, and adds the guard rails.

EXAMPLEAn example of the kind of tool I build. Yours is designed around your own rules and data.

FIG. 1

How it works

EXAMPLE DATA

INCOMING EDITS

ROW-1180price update · SKU 4410
ROW-1181quantity pasted as text
ROW-1182formula overwritten

CHECKS — ROW-1180

SKU existsOK
price within 20% of lastOK
margin above floorOK
editor allowedOK
verdictSAVE

YOUR DATA AND FORMULAS, KEPT

RESULT

SAVED · LOGGEDROW-1180
FIXED · PLEASE CONFIRMROW-1181
BLOCKED · FORMULA LOCKEDROW-1182

EVERY CHANGE LOGGED. NOTHING SILENTLY LOST.

SPEC SHEET

DOES: Moves your spreadsheet's logic into a tool with entry checks, permissions and change history.
INPUTS: Your existing workbook or workbooks.
AI SCOPE: Rarely needed. Validation is plain rules.
FAILS: Safe. Bad entries are blocked or queued, never silently saved.
EXPORTS: Back to Excel or CSV any time.
OWNER: You, at handover. Full source and docs.

EXAMPLE SCENARIO

A distributor tracking a couple of thousand products in one workbook

BEFORE

Formulas overwritten by accident and found weeks later
Three copies of the file, none of them the latest
Only one person dares to edit certain tabs

AFTER

Same columns and calculations, now with entry checks
One shared version, with a history of who changed what
Reports that took an afternoon run on demand

SIGNS YOU NEED THIS

A file is named something like MASTER_DO_NOT_TOUCH
You've found a mistake that had been there for months
The file is slow to open, or crashes
One person is the only one who understands it

USEFUL FOR

Any business
Wholesale & distribution
Nonprofits & associations
Small manufacturers

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