Of course, you can change a light bulb with a power drill.
But why would you?
Changing a light bulb with a power drill is quite a challenge. You would need two things.
First, an adapter to connect with the bulb. The drill bit is too hard and the wrong shape; you need something like a rubber cup.
Second, you need some way of gearing down the speed of rotation. A power drill turns way too fast.
Each of these can be engineered as an adapter. A thriving industry could develop to design, produce, and promote such adapters.
The power drill analogy illustrates what is currently happening out there in our spreadsheet world. There are power-this and power-that. That is great. But not so great when there is already a simple and powerful way of implementing a requirement with Excel.
The power drill takes us backward, not forward.
A suggestion on the above: have you tried turning the bulb by hand?
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