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[โ€“] Eheran@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excel: taking ages to load a file Excel: There is a link to another Excel document, but I can't access it to update the value. Me: Where? Excel: To this document. Me: ... Where can I find the cell that contains this link? Excel: I don't know noises Me: What if it is a named variable? Excel: Yes.

[โ€“] Saneless@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And don't even try to do a conversion of text to numbers in a big column. There's a super fast way (name is eluding me) but if you respond to the error popup I imagine it looks at each cell of text, thinks says, "abracadabra you're now a number!" for every row. It takes that long