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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by slap_shot on Thursday September 08, 2016 @01:43AM (#12450548)
It's entirely intentional. The point isn't just to transpose the numbers from one medium to another; it is to understand what the numbers mean. The best way to do that is the way Martin does it in that video. That's how anyone who does this professionally does it.
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by eru on Thursday September 08, 2016 @07:26AM (#12452008)
Isn't this more error prone?
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Re:You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video] by beepboopbeep on Thursday September 08, 2016 @08:36AM (#12452384)
Absolutely. But the OPs comment is spot on. Do it manually when you start out and you'll quickly learn both the importance of the numbers you're typing in and common issues you can run into with either manually inputting data or in structuring the model (or that one time you fat fingered a number and blew out everything driven by it)
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