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re: Is there anything more frustrating than watching someone fumbling through Excel?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:53 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 1/23/25 at 12:53 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:32 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Is there anything more frustrating than watching someone fumbling through Excel?
Yes, reading your post.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:34 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
I have a CoPilot license through my company now.
Theres some shite I can do with CoPilot in Excel that would make you look like a newb.
Theres some shite I can do with CoPilot in Excel that would make you look like a newb.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:52 pm to Weekend Warrior79
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Actually watched someone use a calculator to add number in a bunch of cells then input the results into the Total cell
This is how ive always done it. I dont trust their algorithms.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:54 pm to Tiger Ryno
Google Sheets all day.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 1:55 pm to Tiger Ryno
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This is how ive always done it. I dont trust their algorithms.
Adding up all those HOA fines?
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:05 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
quote:Our company requires a basic computer skills test as part of the application/interview process.
On the plus side, I can finish the shite I need to do in 20% of the time and do whatever I want in the remaining time while they’re putzing around clicking on single cells.
It’s 2025, excel has been around for decades, there’s just no excuse for this shite
No one is getting hired anywhere near accounting, bookkeeping, finance, analyst divisions that aren't proficient in Excel. Hell, even the secretaries have to have basic knowledge & functionality because they process expenses and work up vouchers & debit memos for their people.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:06 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Yea - having a teacher with no patience with students trying to learn the subject matter they teach.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:06 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Why don't you pass some of that expert knowledge on instead of being a dick about it.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:08 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Question - do kids today get to learn Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc. in elementary school or junior high? I have had to learn it on the back of a job in the late '90's which is not optimum. Also, you learn and retain things much easier when you are younger.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:12 pm to LSUMBA91
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Only if I get to go back to Deloitte's compound near Dallas.
There were cameras everywhere, and still there were Partners banging consultants.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:15 pm to TexasTiger89
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do kids today get to learn Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc. in elementary school or junior high?
Yep, my 7th grader has been learning it all year out here. No pivot tables obviously.
I dislike Excel "experts" because a lot of the complicated shite they take pride in seems to be a better use of a database with SQL, or by data sets and sheets that aren't trying to do too much at once.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:17 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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I’m a national resource for Excel
Nerd!!!
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:26 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
I understand what you’re laying down, dude. I was in a client office years ago and watched an older contact of mine pull out an old school calculator to add numbers on an Excel file on her screen. It was painful. I thought about it for several minutes and took a chance to help her at the risk of embarrassing her.
She was a sweetheart so felt comfortable showing her the magic of the sigma and simple sum command. She wasn’t embarrassed (I don’t think) but was delighted with her newfound knowledge.
She was a sweetheart so felt comfortable showing her the magic of the sigma and simple sum command. She wasn’t embarrassed (I don’t think) but was delighted with her newfound knowledge.
This post was edited on 1/23/25 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:31 pm to Lieutenant Dan
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AI is going to drag it's nuts across everything you know, in a fraction of the "super fast" time you think you can do it.
This
I'm not sure if ChatGPT can do this but I use Claude
You can literally take a screenshot of your laptop in excel and be like "how do I do ____" and it will tell you.
You can take a picture of your calculus homework and Claude will show you step by step how to do it.
AI is really something.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:31 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Yes, there are 1000's of things more frustrating....
Cancer, hateful people, sunburns, wars etc.... the list never ends. Next question please.
Cancer, hateful people, sunburns, wars etc.... the list never ends. Next question please.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:35 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
I've been making complex spreadsheets since the DOS versions of Lotus 123 in the early 90's, if you think this is just boomers, you haven't gotten around much.
A lot of Gen X-Z think they are PC literate because they can play video games, they don't know what they don't know, the boomers are easier to start with because they are more open to learning.
My best skill is not my PC knowledge, it's my patience and teaching methods, I can take your 14 y/o and your grandma and have them making spreadsheets within an hour.
Hint: It is a lot easier to teach if you are logged in with the student, someone standing over the shoulder tapping an impatient foot doesn't help.
A lot of Gen X-Z think they are PC literate because they can play video games, they don't know what they don't know, the boomers are easier to start with because they are more open to learning.
My best skill is not my PC knowledge, it's my patience and teaching methods, I can take your 14 y/o and your grandma and have them making spreadsheets within an hour.
Hint: It is a lot easier to teach if you are logged in with the student, someone standing over the shoulder tapping an impatient foot doesn't help.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:41 pm to andouille
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if you think this is just boomers, you haven't gotten around much.
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It’s mainly older people but it’s unfortunately not age restricted
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:52 pm to andouille
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the boomers are easier to start with because they are more open to learning
Not my experience at all. Most I've dealt with think they don't need to learn anything because they already know everything.
Posted on 1/23/25 at 2:55 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Yes.
1. Fumbling through Excel.
2. Reading your asinine posts.
1. Fumbling through Excel.
2. Reading your asinine posts.
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