Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel
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Story of the Flash Fill Feature in Excel
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#3> She opened up her laptop, *fired up* Excel...
"fired up" in this context needs a place in the CS Hall of Fame
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#4> I went from searching for the hardest problem I can solve to searching for the simplest problem that will have the most impact.
This is a fantastic framework to pursue when, for instance, joining a new organization. You can quickly have an outsized impact just by looking for common pain points. As a corollary, it’s very useful to spend lots of time using your own product and talking to the users!
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#6If you do not know what flash fill is, like me, this page shows a video of the feature:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-time-with-fl...
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#7If you do not know what flash fill is, like me, this page shows a video of the feature: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/save-time-with-fl...
Alternatively, this video:
(Key word: "Maruary".)
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#8This is very cool and I was unaware of this feature.
Are there any open source libraries that perform similar tasks? I can think of a few uses for this in data cleanup as long as it can handle the input not being super clean.
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#9am I the only one that finds this feature distracting and unhelpful? Most of the times the recommendations are wrong, and then it's just more visual noise/keystrokes.
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#10> She opened up her laptop, *fired up* Excel... "fired up" in this context needs a place in the CS Hall of Fame
…why?