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Excel is great, it is still Microsoft’s best product, (in contrast to Word which is an abomination). However I am very disappointed with Microsoft’s lack of in
by garyclarke27 7y ago
Excel is great, it is still Microsoft’s best product, (in contrast to Word which is an abomination).
However I am very disappointed with Microsoft’s lack of investment in Excel, over the past 10 years it has hardly improved. eg the VBA code editor is appalling, like a relic from the 1980’s (constrast VS Code).
I use tables extensively (they are quite nice) problem is they require extensive use of Index/Match which becomes tedious to set up and is very slow, so manual update soon becomes obligatory. MS should incorporate some of the Power BI linking (think Foreign Keys) capability to overcome this big problem. Would be nice if they added SQL,instead of always making up their own query language language (eg M). Sumifs Countifs functions offer powerful and essential capability that could also be better done with SQL syntax. Excel is very error prone so Unique row constraints on tables or sheets would be handy. The formula editor is also archaic and could be easily improved dramatically.
Yes - Excel is Fun - what an awesome YouTube channel, that guy’s enthusiasm for Excel is extraordinary.
- stephsmithio 7y agoYes, agreed that there's lots of room for improvement. It's actually quite amazing that the core functionality has enabled it to stick for so long. Re: Excel is Fun, found the channel while researching for the piece and it is truly a hidden Internet gem. We can only hope more people find their passion as this guy has.
- _eLRIC 7y agoIt's not as poweful as SQL, but the new array functions bring some fresh air https://blog-insider.office.com/2019/06/13/dynamic-arrays-and-new-functions-in-excel/ https://blog-insider.office.com/2019/06/13/dynamic-arrays-an...
- toyg 7y agoMS is conservative in general; double so with Office; triple so with their best-ever app; quadruple-so at a time when they were basically busy rewriting it to be browser-based.
- bishala 7y agoWhy do you think Word is an abomination? Among all the word processors, I find it to be the best.