I never get enough

[lonecow]

There's not a lot that I'm doing at work at the moment that I can say is really fascinating, or challenging, but there is one thing I've really enjoyed: creating a margin analysis calculator.

For example, say a government department says "Wolfram & Hart! We have X project, tell us how you'll do the work, who'll do it and how much it will cost us!"

Comments

[itcomesinpints]

I love Excel too. geeks :D

[lonecow]

\o/

[teh_oatse]

Aah Excel. I never could get a handle on the LookUp stuff. I'm sure I'd have gotten it if I'd had a reference book and time to figure it all out, instead of just going 'I will build a thing now!' between other tasks. Everything I made sort of worked as long as you didn't change anything anywhere. But you know, I was employed to answer phones not to learn things

[lonecow]

I like googling for my Excel questions - my dad's always tried to give me the Excel guides etc, but I just don't learn unless I'm trying to build something and need it to do something specific. Now I can look at spreadsheets other people have made and find out what information they're using and kind of know why...

It's pretty exciting, I have to admit. And I hope people appreciated your work in finding the error - it's not easy to deconstruct someone else's spreadsheet, and I'm getting to see that more and more clearly.

[teh_oatse]

Reading any code is hard. With Excel you've got everything jammed into one line with no commenting and usually no names for things other than cell references. If you're messing with other people's spreadsheets all the time it's kind of like detective work, following a trail, trying to figure out why they did something, uncovering hidden cells, calculating stuff by hand and messing it up because I'm crap at math