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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by ryanmonroe on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:16PM (#18152748)
Not having a good data entry gui is the biggest benefit of not-excel in my experience. 90% of the time your data has a real source that's not "Jim's head" and you should find a way to impute the data from that source directly, avoiding the ever-present inaccuracies that come from human-imputed data.
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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by acct1771 on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:40AM (#18155358)
Was the typo to drive home your point?
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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by mclehman on Saturday October 06, 2018 @07:13PM (#18157877)
My guess is that they meant this definition of impute, and are advocating for removing Jim's inferences entirely.

Impute (finance):

assign (a value) to something by inference from the value of the products or processes to which it contributes.

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Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’... by paultopia on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:46AM (#18167926)
Also, even when you need human entered data, a spreadsheet is waaaaay too easy to make typos with, like putting things in the wrong row/column, overwriting previous entries, etc. Use a form.
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