After years of not knowing any better, I finally learned the answer to, “Are you good with Excel?”<\/p>\n
It’s an emphatic, “No.”<\/p>\n
Of course I actually know my way around it really well. But, every single time<\/em>, I have soon realized that I’d have been better off lying. “Hey Matt, I have this list of numbers and I want to find the standard deviation” would be easy. So wouldn’t, “How can I get this formula to apply to these cells?”<\/p>\n But, “Why isn’t my data importing from Excel to PowerPoint properly?” I don’t have the foggiest clue. Why doesn’t some complex formula you wrote work? I don’t know, you wrote it! Why doesn’t the SQL in your query work? Wait, what? You asked me about Excel.<\/p>\n I’m warning you. When someone asks you, say no, play dumb (“Naw, I don’t get it at all… That’s the thing with them numbers and rows, right?”) And, if there’s any<\/em> signs that they’re not taking no for an answer, simply turn and run.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After years of not knowing any better, I finally learned the answer to, “Are you good with Excel?” It’s an emphatic, “No.” Of course I actually know my way around it really well. But, every single time, I have soon … Continue reading