Customers want to leave a spreadsheet and then recreate it
QuietCRM imports the rows. The next request is the same columns, formulas included. I can become a spreadsheet or I can help them keep the three columns that were doing the work.
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One change, then stop. Address "QuietCRM imports the rows" and leave the rest of the product alone for a week.
I would not rewrite the product from "The next request is the same columns, formulas included" alone. One narrower test this week would tell you more.
I would stay with "I can become a spreadsheet or I can help them keep the three columns that were doing the work" for the week already named. A quieter result is still a result.
Show a preview of what will be lost before the import finishes. The anger happens anyway. Better before they trust the new list.
I import the columns and only surface the ones used in the last month of the file. The rest sit in a drawer. People argue, then they stop scrolling sideways.
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