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This class is called Excel for Accounting. We are spending an inordinate amount of time on formatting. WTF?

Posted by con_carne Apr 30 '09, 18:52

I'm over here drawing pretty green triangles and stuff. Give me number-crunching, damnit. If I suspect the rest of this lecture will be like this, I'm making tracks.

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While annoying, I will say that knowing Excel formatting is an underrated skill. - TFox Apr 30, 18:54 6
- Why do so many people *not* format a spreadsheet for printing before they email it?? - MojaveMeg Apr 30, 19:12 3
  - Even worse: formatting it to print... on legal. - TFox Apr 30, 19:14 1
    - Death is too good for those people. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Apr 30, 19:17
  - I spent several years at a dot com that was relentlessly paperless. I think I still think that way. -- nm - con_carne Apr 30, 19:14
- Oh, I think I'm one of those people :) - con_carne Apr 30, 19:01
- Agreed. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 30, 18:56

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This class is called Excel for Accounting. We are spending an inordinate amount of time on *formatting*. WTF?

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This class is called Excel for Accounting. We are spending an inordinate amount of time on formatting. WTF?