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 thenipper on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:58PM (#18152681)

What the other child poster said. This is 90% of my job. It’s really fun a lot of the time and absolutely brutal the rest of it. Be prepared for things like writing code that checks the color or text styling of cells etc. people encode data in whacky ways

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by MisterOctober on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:19PM (#18152755)

Seriously. I frequently get handed spreadsheets with integers typed as strings... people using strings for things that, heaven's sake, should undoubtedly be booleans... Getting the thing into usable condition takes up more time and energy than the actual analysis they desire

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by synotna on Saturday October 06, 2018 @02:27AM (#18153837)

I've seen that before, to "work around" locale issues, bring a European company recieving data from US companies

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