There are a lot of reasons to turn a spreadsheet into a finding aid. Maybe your donor sent you an inventory of a new accession in Excel, and you want to modify and re-use that data. Maybe you’ve determined that Excel has data entry features that Archivists’ Toolkit doesn’t have, and you want to take advantage of those. Maybe it’s the good in-between step between a legacy Word Document and structured data.
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