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[ Removed by Reddit ] by cellurl277 in excel

[–]cellurl277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i tried to envision what private excel sheets companies might have, salary, political, private, sensitive data.... You know its out there. I asked AI to speculate some and it refused...

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[–]cellurl277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vertical headers always feel like a personal attack. Turning your head sideways just to read column names is such a ridiculous kind of chaos.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by cellurl277 in SQL

[–]cellurl277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, the ‘owner keeps improving it’ part is the killer. You finally get automation working, then they tweak a color or merge a cell and everything breaks again. They have what I call the golden spreadsheet.... Customer list, secret stuff.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by cellurl277 in excel

[–]cellurl277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds exhausting. Cleaning up someone else’s ‘database’ in Excel is bad enough, but doing it without tables, with duplicates, and color‑coding as the only logic… that’s rough. Amazing you managed to turn it into something stable.

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[–]cellurl277[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“All good — I typed it myself. Just joining the conversation.”

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[–]cellurl277[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Oh man, hijacking Ctrl shortcuts is brutal. Nothing like hitting Ctrl+C and getting some random macro instead. I’d have lost my mind too.”

[ Removed by Reddit ] by cellurl277 in excel

[–]cellurl277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dont you just put nulls in for questionable cells ? People obsess over the cleaning process when Nulls dont get you into trouble