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I have Excel, and of course Sheets. I actually find Excel to be too full of features (same with Word). It's just too hard to figure out a simple thing like havi
by AlbertCory 4y ago
I have Excel, and of course Sheets. I actually find Excel to be too full of features (same with Word). It's just too hard to figure out a simple thing like having the top row be column headings (yes, I do know how to do it, but it was not immediately apparent).
"Someone, somewhere, might want to do this, so let's put it in" is obviously what's happened with Office for 30 years now.
- WalterBright 4y agoExcel is the #1 programming language by a wide margin, and it evolved rather than was designed.
- ipaddr 4y agoI remember when all reports were crystal reports which you don't see as much anymore? Excel is on the way out.
- AlbertCory 4y agoExactly. Every release some PM or senior engineers wants to add some features, for no doubt good reasons, and it all gets shoehorned into the UI. Thus the rule I generally espouse, of "Simple things should be simple. Complicated things should be possible." turns into "Everything is possible, but nothing is simple."
- graycat 4y agoMy summary view of much of Microsoft, and more of tech, is that, while a lot of the software is really good, too often the corresponging explanations and documentation are not. There seems to be a theme that the user should learn to use the software via experimentation. To me, that too often results in too much clicking, and when finally I do see I take notes, i.e., document some of the software.