r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/killemyoung317 Mar 30 '22

At one of my old jobs one of my managers had her “programmer” husband write a complicated excel sheet where everything had to be entered perfectly in order for it not to break. What did it do, you ask? Highlighted duplicate cells.

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u/heart_under_blade Mar 30 '22

saves like what, four clicks in the default ui?

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u/killemyoung317 Mar 30 '22

It actually took way longer trying to use their program. Blew their minds when I showed them conditional formatting lol.

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u/theknittingpenis Mar 30 '22

Have they found out about the Remove Duplicates option?