• @Saneless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My favorite, since I’m not a programmer anymore, is excel

    E: Your formula has a circular reference. I ain’t doing shit till you fix it

    Me: where?

    E: In your spreadsheet, I don’t fucking know

    • @Eheran@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Excel: taking ages to load a file

      Excel: There is a link to another Excel document, but I can’t access it to update the value.

      Me: Where?

      Excel: To this document.

      Me: … Where can I find the cell that contains this link?

      Excel: I don’t know noises

      Me: What if it is a named variable?

      Excel: Yes.

      • @Saneless@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        And don’t even try to do a conversion of text to numbers in a big column. There’s a super fast way (name is eluding me) but if you respond to the error popup I imagine it looks at each cell of text, thinks says, “abracadabra you’re now a number!” for every row. It takes that long

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      51 year ago

      It’s ok, you run the expression debugger, which says the first step, which is all of the formula, will result in an error. So helpful.