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Aaron: "Let me tell you, Gretzky was no Gandhi."
MP: "I'd like to swim in Scrooge McZuckerberg's silo of money."
Royce: "Im like the george dubya of fiwk!"
Aaron: "If you could hear me, you would hear my voice getting all high like a teenage girl meeting Justin Timberlake"
Scott: "I could also write 'How to Turn 5 Sentences into 1: Thoughts on the Ellipsis'"
Aaron: "Wait, so this is your second non-consecutive year living in Paris? Does that make you the Grover Cleveland of Americans residing in Paris?
MP: "I'd like to swim in Scrooge McZuckerberg's silo of money."
Royce: "Im like the george dubya of fiwk!"
Aaron: "If you could hear me, you would hear my voice getting all high like a teenage girl meeting Justin Timberlake"
Scott: "I could also write 'How to Turn 5 Sentences into 1: Thoughts on the Ellipsis'"
Aaron: "Wait, so this is your second non-consecutive year living in Paris? Does that make you the Grover Cleveland of Americans residing in Paris?
Even to the point where instead of typing =169.83-122.9, I will type 169.83 in B2 and 122.9 in C2 and then in D2 type =B2*C2.
ReplyDeleteIs this an indicator of my comfort with Excel or an indicator of habit of making things more complex than necessary?
Aaron, for you it is the latter. I fire up my calculator about 20x a day for that basic stuff.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I make Excel files of EVERYTHING - I mean, lists of books I want to read, music I want to download, wine tasting notes, restaurants to visit, etc etc. And I also make an Excel schedule of almost everything work-related, so that I can fire off little tables on our latest project's expenses at a moment's notice.
I guess what I'm saying is that I'm also really comfortable in Excel. The only place I haven't taken it is to the macro level yet - do you macro things in Excel? It's the last frontier of complexity.
No, but if it is the same programming level as the rest of Excel, I will get there eventually. If it is another step up, I may not.
ReplyDeleteDo you use Excel for list-making, or just mathematics?
ReplyDeleteMacros are scary because you can get really anal about them... like instead of re-using the same spreadsheet templates I always go back to, I could macro them and have data fill in for me. But creating that macro would be an engineering feat that might take me a while. I'm afraid to make the leap.