{"id":214,"date":"2012-01-23T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/excel-is-for-lists-not-formulas\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T15:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:12:24","slug":"excel-is-for-lists-not-formulas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/excel-is-for-lists-not-formulas\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Is For Lists Not Formulas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sure, you use Excel for all kinds of fancy calculations. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"129\" height=\"129\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Your workbooks are full of mega-formulas and user-defined functions. Your macros magically summarize the data, and you create monthly reports with the click of a button.<\/p>\n<p>But what about the guy in the next cubicle? Does he use Excel for anything more than a grocery list?<\/p>\n<h3>Joel Spolsky on Excel<\/h3>\n<p>In his article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/items\/2012\/01\/06.html\">How Trello is different<\/a>, Joel Spolsky, who was on the Excel development team, talks about the team&#8217;s concept of how Excel would be used. Then, they started visiting customers, and found a different story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table. The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not recalc.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That sounds about right to me.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, you use Excel for all kinds of fancy calculations. Your workbooks are full of mega-formulas and user-defined functions. Your macros magically summarize the data, and you create monthly reports with the click of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}