What If You Could Stop Microsoft Excel From Ever Being Released?
This humorous video explores a hypothetical scenario where someone travels back in time to prevent the release of Microsoft Excel. The clip features a group of people in business attire from an earlier era witnessing a demonstration of early spreadsheet software features, such as autofill and table formatting. As they watch the computer screen, they are visibly stunned by the efficiency of the tools, with one character describing the software's capabilities as a "miracle." The video plays on the common trope of Excel being an essential, albeit sometimes frustrating, tool in the modern workplace, contrasting the simplicity of early computing with the powerful automation features that would eventually become standard.
Fuck that, So you want to go back to manually counting and formatting shit?
I remember my dad speaking about Lotus 123 with excitement, when I was a kid, back in the day. I never used it, but I remember it because of my dad. I miss him... (P.S. Excel is the only MS product I use, it has been immensely useful on my profession, and saved me a lot of time.
So what? We're stuck with Lotus 123?
Eh I love excel, it's great. Guess op is a classic wagecuck to be mad at an amazing tool.
But what if she want the prediction for Maruary?? - relax, I got this.
Wait, you guys PAY for that software so that Microsoft can look at your files Freeware to the win if you don't want to pay.
65536 to 1048576, Excel did put bread and butter on the table for a few million people over 4 decades. Diss it or cuss at it all you like but it did make life easy. Just that it became a cost effective fall back for complex tools including a database at many workplaces. Excel doe
Advanced analytics on Excel bought my first two cars and my first apartment. I almost never use excel anymore, but I owe it everything, Excel was the tool that got me from a procument intern to a senior data scientist. I always liked it since the begining, but, I didn't even know
So what? You go back to stop Excel, only for the older Lotus 1-2-3 to rise up and dominate the planet.
It annoys me to unreasonable lengths that there is no spreadsheet standard format which applies to all spreadsheet programs. Your conditional formatting works in excel? It won't work in LibreOffice. Your conditional formatting works in LibreOffice? It won't work in excel or Googl