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!
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.
::: spoiler Spoiler YouTube link: Stand-up Maths - Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets
Got it.
use it as calculator
It really Excels at being a Calc!
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.
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
My life right here. "Ok it looks like it is an issue with the sheet itself, do you know who owns it? Alright reach out to them.:
I did a GCSE course on Excel, I learned to get irrationally angry every time a class was scheduled
My brain didn't see GCSE at first, instead it saw CSGO and was both confused and intrigued.
real footage of me in my Excel class ^
When I did first line IT support I really loved how it stopped automatically calculating formulas for everyone in HR at the same time
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