Tangent: I once tried to help a friend (non-coder) with his slow excel sheet. He was using string search in excel to match virus DNA fragments. As you’d expect,

Tangent: I once tried to help a friend (non-coder) with his slow excel sheet. He was using string search in excel to match virus DNA fragments. As you’d expect, it was way more complicated than neccesary, and likely buggy. I searched around for something better. But if you cant code, its a really big step to ditch your excel and learn a Programming language. But there is no such thing. It’s understandable that people stick with what they know, but the results are awful.