despite all my rage i'm still just a rat in a cave
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Dude, I'm a surgical tech - my job is to stand in an OR and be a surgeon's bitch while we're flaying some fucker open. ...and I still spend what feels like 90% of my day on Outlook -_-
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Don't forget LaTeX!
Please forget LaTeX. Please let us adopt a more modern alternative that isn’t absolutely painful to use.
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Engineer in uni vs engineering job?
That bottom row of wojaks are ableist as hell, I really wish people would stop using them.
Just enable Accessibility settings under Options.
Wojacks are the laziest shit ever. So ugly. So annoying. And yes absolutely ableist and other worthless stereotypes
4chan is a perpetual blight on memetic culture
Yeah, I really hate when their shit sticks..
TBF if you're professionally using MATLAB you're like, sending people to space or modeling atmospheres. Which I guess some of you might do haha.
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Man I guess I’m spoiled. We get access to the top row except SolidWorks because we license an alternative. We use the entire MS suite too though but as a supplement. I don’t use excel hardly at all because JMP is superior in every single way, except for dashboards where we use PowerBI.
They missed using Access incorrectly with too many users and too large of a database.
Capitalism somehow means managers know better than you how STEM work should be done. Sigh... get used to it if you want to continue.:-| Make some FOSS on the side for fun?:-)
I use python occasionally at work.
... Not IT approved, but well... we use an MSP, and I get to be a decision maker in the company for certain things, and just do it, because well.... I can, and the company keeps me around partially for the things I do with python and sql.
I would like to say Pandas should be used for much of that excel stuff, maybe even replace it, but... Microsoft has decided to bring Python capabilities into excel, so that will likely cement them in your workflow even further:
I've found the selling point in not needing to open excel and click around to run the script. So often people need to do like the same three things and don't even know how to write Python, so giving them a script to drag your file onto is a step up from excel
I dynamic for crm, SQL
I use mainly python at work, but usually exit to excel to share the results to other people.
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I will always appreciate a true Excel power user. I've seen some black magic shit.
When you know Excel really well, it's like Legos for data. If you've got the imagination, intuition, and patience, you can make some incredible stuff.
And between knowing Excel like you've described and knowing only the basics exists an uncanny valley of being able to create some truly revolting abominations. Additionally when all you know is Excel, every problem becomes a spreadsheet, for better or for worse (usually the latter).
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I can see Word, PowerPoint and Outlook as stupid.
But Excel is perfect! You can't say You have mastered it.
Even if You have written a book about Excel, it transcends You.
I thought I knew everything about Excel, but just last week I learned that it now has TypeScript integration for macros. I nearly wept tears of joy. Finally I can leave behind VBA.
As much as I despise Microsoft and 365, Excel is like the one thing I genuinely think they deserve an incredible amount of credit for. It's one of the most invaluable, well supported tools around.
Shame you can't just buy it.
You can. It's expensive, but perpetual licences for Office still exist. The Home edition is €150, the professional edition costs €580.
I mean Excel specifically, not the whole suite. I don't need PowerPoint or a word processor, I'd rather it not be included in the price at all.
Also, they've made OneDrive a requirement for auto-saving on 365, not sure if that's the case for the perpetual licenses, but if so, that's a deal breaker for me. There will never be a Microsoft account associated with my Windows machine, period.
Excel does too many things. A better price of software would do less.
I can't tell if this is ironic or not, because it genuinely feels like Microsoft believes this when you look at the absolute disgrace "New" Outlook is.
For Microsoft, "Modern, sleek, streamlined" are just marketing terms for "We got lazy, made a less useful wed-based product, and you'll have to accept it, at the same price, while we save money on development."
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Excel is, almost certainly, the single most important and influential piece of software in almost every business.
Excel can do anything, including so many things it shouldn’t.
i heard you like a little database in your excel
we have an excel spreadsheet at my workplace that takes a solid 2 minutes to open and even longer to close and accesses a number of other spreadsheets with read/write access in the background. it's an absolute monster.
(it's essentially a database that keeps track of the calibration dates for our testing equipment)
Depending on what functions you have running to make it do all the things, could you have it live on Sharepoint and just access it through Excel online? That offloads a lot of the processing to MS’s servers but does have the disadvantage of being Excel Online, which has some but not all the functions of desktop Excel and the keyboard shortcuts may or may not work. Also, Excel Online doesn’t seem to love macros, which can break things.
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There are numerous reports and databases we work with from other platforms, and for nearly all of them, I just end up feeding it to Excel so I can manage it the way I like. So many of those platforms just have absolute dog shit UIs or refuse to present data in a configurable way, or straight up hide certain things for no reason.
Part of my Monday morning routine is actually exporting a CSV for a couple things that can't be connected directly to excel, hitting Get Data, and letting my custom workbooks do their thing. Watching it all update and present itself in exactly the way I want to see it is so god damn satisfying.
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You didn't use any office apps during your time in school?
I use markdown and convert it to everything else. Using 360 products is painful, but I do what I have to only when I have to.
For English essays. That's about the size of that.
Maybe you need a career shift bud. As a designer you could absolutely use those softwares!