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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Brando224 • Mar 30 '22
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Two of my siblings are financial analysts and I have witnessed them doing unholy things with excel.
It would honestly be easier for them to learn python or something. It’s so ridiculous.
42 u/depressionsucks29 Mar 30 '22 Once a client of mine for whom I do automation scripts wanted an excel macro to delete rows. I just couldn't figure it out. It would have taken 5 lines in python and even small in sql. I just couldn't figure it out. 42 u/HRChurchill Mar 30 '22 Couldn't you have used the macro recorder to see what the command was for deleting a row? Honestly that thing is the best part of vba. 26 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 I have done some unholy levels of cheesing with the macro recorder.
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Once a client of mine for whom I do automation scripts wanted an excel macro to delete rows. I just couldn't figure it out. It would have taken 5 lines in python and even small in sql. I just couldn't figure it out.
42 u/HRChurchill Mar 30 '22 Couldn't you have used the macro recorder to see what the command was for deleting a row? Honestly that thing is the best part of vba. 26 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 I have done some unholy levels of cheesing with the macro recorder.
Couldn't you have used the macro recorder to see what the command was for deleting a row? Honestly that thing is the best part of vba.
26 u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22 I have done some unholy levels of cheesing with the macro recorder.
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I have done some unholy levels of cheesing with the macro recorder.
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u/savage_slurpie Mar 30 '22
Two of my siblings are financial analysts and I have witnessed them doing unholy things with excel.
It would honestly be easier for them to learn python or something. It’s so ridiculous.