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A dog is not a dog
Your friend has a dog. He has named it Dog. Now nobody is allowed to refer to a dog as a dog. Arrays have existed as a ‘variables’ concept for as long as humans have had to think of collections of related things. Fred Flintstone had an array of clubs of varying sizes. He knew…
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Santa Claus is not real
Of course, Santa Claus is real. If we’re dealing with a 5-year-old. But there comes a time when the truth has to be reluctantly admitted. Excel is a large sheet of paper for a beginner. Hopefully, they will progress to a higher plane of awareness. When that happens we can safely tell them that Excel…
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How to change a light bulb with a power drill
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…
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Excel WTF!
A collection of observed stupid ways of doing spreadsheets, when there are perfectly simple and less-risky easy ways of achieving the same result with Excel already! Stupid ways add risk, have a marathon of unnecessary steps, cannot cope with modifications needed in the future, are not scalable, and cannot reach across the organization. Stupid ways…