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Watching Excel power users is really fascinating.
by tnecniv 9y ago
Watching Excel power users is really fascinating.
- shostack 9y agoI spend a good chunk of my day in Excel and some might consider me a power user. He's pretty decent, and I picked up a couple tips from him (using a graphical line object instead of messing with cell borders for something you might need to move frequently for example). There is definitely something mesmerizing though about watching someone conjure complex data onto a screen seemingly by magic and a few key strokes though. Although really it is just memorizing a ton of hot keys and a bunch of buried menu shortcuts.
- Unbeliever69 9y agoOh yeah, watching his Excel You Tube video puts me in awe! Can't tell you how many people I've recommended that video to!
- kbenson 9y agoThe first time I saw that video was when referenced in a HN submission about Excel use[1]. You might find it interesting. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12448545
- aerovistae 9y agoYeah, I think he's better at excel than I've ever been at anything. Jesus.
- corobo 9y agoI think I got an epiphany watching this - is this what the missus sees when I'm tapping away at a bunch of (to her) garbled text flicking between text editor tabs, webpages and CLIs
- revelation 9y agoLots of tapping, little happening really. This is what it must be like when your horizon starts and stops with Excel, you find yourself copying numbers from a SEC PDF to do the same model for the umpteenth time.