What, I use Excel daily and love it ๐
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As a genome biologist, fuck you.
I got a job recently and they asked me if I know excel. I said yes, but I dont even know how to use formulas
Pray for me ๐ญ
Just learn, how hard can it be? Ask AI to help as the other poster suggested.
Excel is one of the few things copilot has actually been able to help me with. Apparantly microsofts shitty programs understand each other.
It's a niche where AI helps because there's just decades of so many forums and videos full of how to do stuff in excel and with AI you get the right answer quicker with less noise around it. I use ai assistance for excel formulas all the time, works pretty good for that.
Interesting. I will be using that information mwahahaha >:)
I guess you really...excel at it!
It depends on how long you use it:
Year 1: Ok, this is kinda cool, but why does it keep fucking breaking?
Year 2: How is it still fucking breaking?
Year 3: I just don't fucking care why it keeps breaking. I think I hate this program.
Year 4: I hate this program
Year 5: Let the hate flow through you, consume you. Feel the dark side flowing through your fingertips. Yes. Good. Why is it breaking? It's the end users. Yes... they've been plotting against you from the beginning - hiding columns, erasing formulas and even...
merging cells
Que heavy breathing through a respirator.
Year 6: It's a board meeting. They ask you if you can average all the moving averages of average sales per month and provide an exponential trendline to forecast growth on five million rows of data.
You say "sure, boss, I can knock that for you in Excel in about an hour or two."
Your team leader interjects "I believe what he was trying to say was we'll use Tableau and it will take about a month."
You turn to him with a steely glare.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
Year 7: Your team leader is gone after you pointed out he fucked up one of your sheets that run the business by merging a cell. All data flows through you and the holy spreadsheet, and the board is terrified of firing you because no one knows how your sheets work but you and their entire inventory system would collapse if you leave.
But then the inevitable happens. Dissension in the ranks. The juniors talk of python, R, Tableau, Power BI - anything to release your dark hold upon the holy data. You could crush them all with a xlookup chain faster than they can type a SELECT statement. The Rebellion is coming, but you're ready. You've discovered the Data Model, capable of building a relational database behind the hidden moons of Power Pivot, parsing tens of millions of rows - and your Death Star is almost complete.
You're ready to unleash your dark fury when the fucking spreadsheet breaks again.
Year 8: New company. They ask if you know Excel. You just start cackling with a addictive gleam in your eye as tears start streaming down your face.
They hire you on the spot.
All they use is Excel. And Access.
You think, ok, this is kinda cool, but why does it keep fucking breaking?
This comment should be UNESCO world heritage
Just started a new job two weeks ago, all they use is Excel and Access. Now you've got me scared, first job out of uni and feels like a lot of pressure.
Welcome to the dark side, young padawan...
Damn as somebody with very little coding or IT background whatsoever but had to learn excel on my last 5 year of work, I understood it all.
Especially the cell merging... Spawn of the devil itself...
Still power query is quite addictive, the main reason why moving to OpenOffice is hard.
We need a /c/MuseumOfLemmy to preserve this treasure in so that it may be cherished and studied by our children and our childrenโs children and many generations beyond.
This is art
Year 7: Your team leader is gone after you pointed out he fucked up one of your sheets that run the business by merging a cell.
I am laughing about how after 7 years nobody has locked the sheets that run the business to avoid this specific thing.
Or maybe they were kocked and the team leader unlocked it so they could break it without saving a backup.
There's no way they're using xlookup at year 7. You can pry my index match from my cold dead hands.
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Why isn't that "Merge Cells" button hidden behind 3 levels of menus up to this day?
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Damn you just described my role but everything happened within a span of 3 years
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Excel is a hammer.
When holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Stop using Excel for anything more than simple data extraction and pivot tables, get a custom solution tailored to your needs rather than a monstrous Excel document that consumes 14 GB of RAM to run.
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We support a financial institution that uses ~30MB Excel sheets with thousands of calculations and they wonder why they can't send it via email or why it has issues when 10 people edit it at once
Just use a goddamn database
MyExcelDB powers thousands of institutions daily
The bad thing is, they've attached a mediocre screwdriver to the hammer because everybody keeps using the hammer as a screwdriver. But now, everybody STILL uses the hammer as a screwdriver. The screwdriver part used to be a separate tool, but people didn't know how to use it, and now they still don't, even though it comes with instructions.
They really should have kept things separate.
Got it.
use it as calculator
I've done things in excel that are an abomination in the eyes of the divine.
I have absolutely 0 regret.
i once used an excel sheet to emulated a von Newman architecture ALU+RAM
fun and useless, but very (un)efficient way to calculate Fibonacci numbers
You have January 1, 1970 regret?
Or false regret, either or.
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"It's not as good as making games in as Unity or Unreal but I can manage."
When I did first line IT support I really loved how it stopped automatically calculating formulas for everyone in HR at the same time
"Excel" 365 ๐คฎ
What if I like it? Is there something wrong with me?
Not at all. You just haven't gotten deep enough into the beast to see the horror.
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You are probably using it for its intended purpose, which it Excels at.
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The Libre Office Suite is better, and Free Open Source Software (FOSS).
Create a table in Libre Office, I'll wait...
(Hint,the devs have flat out stated they will never add tables to Calc, as it's wrong to do).
99% of Excel usage includes a table in the first, or second, sheet. Without tables a spreadsheet app is useless, in my opinion, regardless of how "wrong" it is (and I agree that it's wrong).
Wait excel sheets are pretty much already tables right...
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ooh thats me and databases.
Databases are just Excel with extra steps
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