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[–] spamspeicher@feddit.de 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thats easy.

  • open Excel
  • Set the desired image as background
  • colour the required cells on top of the image in the company colours (you may have to resize cells)
  • open the snipping tool
  • take a screenshot of the new image with company colours

Congratulations, you just used THE best program on your pc to finish another task.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reasons you tell the it department you need the best cpu available and more ram than their servers: complex simulation software and autocad

Actual reason you need it: thousands of calculation cells in a single spreadsheet that references other spreadsheets

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lies.

It’s so we can load our model into x plane or doom or something. You know. To check the real world physics.

It’s either that or we build a scale model and blow it up…

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I manage to crash my work computer more often with my excel bullshit than with GIS or CAD.

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do this but with VBA/macro so you can automate it next time.

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who will spend 10 hours figuring out how to automate a daily task that takes 8 minutes, I feel attacked!

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A boring routine, even if it's short, is a distraction from stuff that require more focus. Also it's a source of human errors.

At least that's how I rationalize it ~~because, really, it's just more fun to work on automating stuff~~.