<story><title>Excel is pretty dang cool</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/excel-is-pretty-dang-cool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasajian</author><text>I quote, &amp;quot;Excel has actual programming affordances now&amp;quot;...
Range names &amp;quot;fixes one of the biggest problems that makes spreadsheets illegible&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Instead of writing the formula =A1&lt;i&gt;B1, you can do =Width&lt;/i&gt;Height like you should have been able to 30 years ago.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what this dude is talking about.  Range names have been in Excel for decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>andylynch</author><text>&lt;i&gt;but&lt;/i&gt; it’s somehow underused. Often people don’t even realise they should be creating tables at all.   Power query and friends are black magic at that point.&lt;p&gt;It sounds slightly absurd but advanced Excel training is something I think many people should do. At $oldfinancejob the guys who ran the client  professional development business clearly picked up on this and ran a very nice ‘Excel for financial modelling’ course as a free intro kind of thing - after using Excel for decades there were plenty of things I didn’t know about and now use.    Excel is an incredibly deep product.</text></comment>
<story><title>Excel is pretty dang cool</title><url>https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/excel-is-pretty-dang-cool/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kasajian</author><text>I quote, &amp;quot;Excel has actual programming affordances now&amp;quot;...
Range names &amp;quot;fixes one of the biggest problems that makes spreadsheets illegible&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Instead of writing the formula =A1&lt;i&gt;B1, you can do =Width&lt;/i&gt;Height like you should have been able to 30 years ago.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Not sure what this dude is talking about.  Range names have been in Excel for decades.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>listenallyall</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s like a TIL post on the front page of Reddit that states something you assumed everybody knew, yet has 30,000 upvotes.</text></comment>