... To use Microsoft Excel for everything from planning your menu, to designing your dream home, to tracking your files? If so, I really don't care. I am going to keep using it.
Ever since I saw VisiCalc as a young accounting major at UNC (class of '81) I have been hooked. The wonder of having data stored in rows and columns with information that is connected but moveable in parts. The joys of Autofilter! This one feature has virtually eliminated the need to ever search for data or build queries or do programming. (Although those Lotus 123 Macros I created to do LIFO inventory calculations a long time ago were pretty awesome.) And don’t get me started on Pivot Tables. That is the closest I will ever come to performing gymnastics. I can flip those babies in so many directions that the insights come pouring out. You can take even the most overwhelming list of random information and quickly spot the patterns in a good pivot table.
This much fun just has to be illegal. It probably is in Georgia.
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Back when I was a NIT (nerd-in-training) I wordked in the computer lab in college. There was this guy who was, of all things, a law student, who would come in to write his papers. Leave a Reply. |
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I am an accountant on a mission. I want to permanently remove the blight of BORING that has attached itself to members of my profession.
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