The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It

Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by jiveturkey on Friday October 05, 2018 @04:58PM (#18151695)

> I do not understand the mindset of not wanting to help other people.

You, sir, have not been the victim of help vampires.

> A lot of people struggle to find answers specifically because of this lack of community around using Excel as a tool

I am unaware of this lack of information. Perhaps I am not doing the really, really, really exotic stuff but every question I have ever had on Excel has been answerable via Google.

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by 3rdAccount on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:20PM (#18152199)

Agreed. Most Excel stuff is extremely well documented on Stack Overflow, numerous blog sites, and message boards. I wrote a fair amount of VBA today(something I've only done a few times before) and found it to be quite straightforward.

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by eric_h on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:43PM (#18151971)

The ability to compose queries and sift through google results and find the answer to a question in a timely manner is a skill in and of itself that not everyone has.

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by sgt101 on Friday October 05, 2018 @06:05PM (#18152115)

But - this is a skill that will repay the learner in gold and good times. And no one is prevented in the learning.

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by grigjd3 on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:51PM (#18152027)

You never learn if you just depend on others.

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