• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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      42 minutes ago

      Idiots using a function without understanding what it actually does. Plenty of functions in Excel operate on text.

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        You may not like it, but Excel has long been the tool of choice for people who should really use a database but already know how to use this nice hammer. COPILOT() was marketed as a tool where you could pull in a bunch of text fields and do crude sentiment analysis or summations on the individual fields, for example.