Dealing with =CLIENT errors

[ChrisGreaves]

What do you say to your clients and end-users?

It is over 20 years since I told a international waste disposal firm that CIRCular errors in the budgeting spreadsheet sent to 729 department offices was a no-no.
Today I am dealing with an engineering firm whose VP's maintain that they are "not sure having DIV/0 or value message is so bad".
I struggle to point out that by the time {your favorite spreadsheet processor here} reports an error, it is a real error; that end-user's shouldn't ever see a DIV/0!, VALUE, NUM or NULL error.
DIV/0! is particularly grating because it stems from mathematics, the universe etc.; and is not based on a spreadsheet world at all.
"Before computers, there was Div/0!"^(*)

There is a need for a mantra that can convince all but the most useless client to work towards error-free spreadsheets.

^(*) Chris Greaves July 3rd 2010

[Leif]

There is a need for a mantra....

Try: Obey Serve Love Excel Mp3's and CD's with mantra meaning, lyrics, pronunciation and translation.

[HansV]

"Obey Serve Love Excel"

Excellent! What a great mantra!