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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by liotier on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @03:50PM (#34072342)
> The ability create a relational database in Excel with vlookups and hlookups,

Do yourself a favour and ditch vlookup and hlookup in favour of the recently introduced xlookup, which even obsoletes index/match !

I try to keep my exploratory joins out of Excel, but I admit that I often don't resist the immediacy of Excel's poor man's joins located right where I need them.

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition) by codesnik on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:12AM (#34082568)
Took them long enough to add it.