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Is there a word for being good/talented at something you find undesirable?
Example: plumbers.
Excel wizards: quit your whining and go make bank.
I myself have stopped using excel for the last 3 years. My company runs on GSuite, and I love how there can be one source of truth updated in real-time for 1 document. For the better and the worst, some of our internal processes are Google sheets centric now.
I believe the next generation of business will be "fighting" google sheets intrusion in operation processes. Some processes are fine in a Google sheets, but not all of them.
I do not understand the mindset of not wanting to help other people. Enabling people to learn more about the software they use every day is better for everyone involved. Yes, some problems are too complex to solve in a few minutes, but pointing someone in the right direction requires little to no effort. Excel lacks the community programmers have and also lacks the learning opportunities given by open-source software…
Source needed.
There’s crap tons of excel help, and the amount of excel queries+answers will easily put other languages to shame.
The difference is that excel is not usually treated as an engineering tool, with the various rituals that go with it.
In contrast, take a look at how financial analysts learn excel - a field where excel IS an engineering tool.
It’s the differences between being a home cook and a professional chef.
Sounds like a cool startup idea. A legion of VLOOKUP gurus manning a helpdesk, only $20 per screen-share!
Mentioned this elsewhere but we created a startup that does exactly this [1]. We charge a lot less than $20 though! Happy to answer any questions [1] https://www.excelchat.co
People say "use a real database", fine, but where is the visual data entry? Where are the easy adhoc reports? Where are the forms? I guess if you're on Windows you can use Microsoft Access, but that's the only accesible tool I know of that doesn't require a team of programmers or an enterprise license for some Oracle/SAP type monstrosity.
"As a developer, you've probably, at some unfortunate point in your life (possibly several points, actually), been handed an Excel file that has been crammed full of 'data' by someone in marketing and told to 'do something with it.' " http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm
The video is meant to be in the same vein as the You Suck at Photoshop videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a difference between "doing other people's job" and "enabling them to learn on their own" in my experience. Explaining to someone why it is better to use INDEX MATCH in lieu of VLOOKUP will never ruin my productivity.
In my experience not 1 person in 50 of people who "aren't computer people" will retain that information regardless of how much time you spend. I once worked with a guy who would come to me for everything from excel stuff to "help I can't find this email in my gmail account". I tried to stress to him that I had my own work to do (write code) but he whined that it would take me just a minute and it might take him 15 or…