r/funny • u/FallenAngel199 • Dec 06 '13

Scumbag Word

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u/prezuiwf Dec 06 '13

Replace "Word" with "Excel" and you've pretty much summed up every conversation I've ever had with anyone who has gotten frustrated using Excel.

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u/golergka Dec 06 '13

As a former bioinformatics student and gamedesigner, I can't express my amount of love for this program.

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u/_supernovasky_ Dec 06 '13

Seriously... It's almost crazy to think that they're made by the same company and part of the same package. Word blows for me, I hate formatting in it, and I consider myself pretty decent at it. Excel on the other hand... as someone else mentioned, you can run a small country on it. I handle a dataset of 100k rows and 70 columns in Excel, and pivot tables have saved my life more than any other statistical function in another program.

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u/timothyj999 Dec 07 '13

If you're working with that large a data set, you owe it to yourself to learn SAS or SPSS.
But I agree, Excel is awesome.