Thanks to e.g. Google Sheets, excel itself doesn't dominate the market like it used to. Beyond that, I've had a litany of jobs where I had zero reason to ever use a spreadsheet, one of which was one where I actually sold Microsoft Office licenses.

For a great many folks, the only time they may have encountered spreadsheet software at all was in a school computer literacy class, and even then...

Maybe I have grown out of being in Windows world for awhile and am biased, but it does seem like 2023 Excel is less ubiquitous in cultural mindshare than 2007 Excel. There’s probably a lot of factors contributing to that.

Taking a generous perspective - her job is a musical artist.

Unless you are in her industry, there are probably tons of things she knows about you and I don't - like good brands of music sheets, mixing desks or microphones.

Excel is known, by a certain selection of office workers.

Because she's got a life and better things to do.

She's in conversations about it though and still doesn't know..

lol a lot of normal people don't know what Excel is.

According to the post she's using Sheet not Excel

well microsoft says there is 750 million users of excel globally. So potentially 90% of the world?

9%

I was answering the inverse. If 9% use, then 91% don't

> Firstly, how do you not know what Microsoft Excel is?

By not being in a office-work career field.

I suspect this "how do you not know Excel" sentiment is psychologically similar to people in the US (where I live) telling others to "speak English" instead of their native language.

You're incorrect and you're just ignoring the second part of my comment too.

> You’re incorrect

Good argument

> how do you not know what Microsoft Excel is?

She signed a record deal at age 14, back at a time when knowing how to power on a computer was seen as a specialized office skill.

> she's the one who is using it

She isn't a director, and likely had no role in preparing props.