Dan,

One more thing about Excel.

An under-utilized part of the Office family has been VBA (Visual Basic for Applications)

It is software technology that goes back to the 90's but Microsoft can't kill it. Too many businesses rely on it. Starting in 1993, it came built right into Office. Right-click any Worksheet Tab and select View Code. You won't see fancy ribbons. The interface you see is exactly the same as it's been with every version of Office.

Too many businesses have critical macros or VBA programs (whatever you call them) they can not do without. And in a funny way, those macros also insure those businesses will continue using Office so they can run macros they depend on.

I began programming in BASIC back in the 80's in the DOS environment. You can also program in Windows Visual Basic (not DOS and not VBA).

Working as an accountant, I created VBA programs I used for very sophisticated functions that made my life easier. It was a natural progression from Microsoft PDS BASIC to the Windows environment.

There are alternate ways of creating functions you can employ in your job but none are as easy as VBA and amazingly powerful.

I had some excel files I used on the job with very few cells I manually entered anything into. Everything happened via VBA and I used the spreadsheet just to hold the data.

And VBA isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Any accountants who aren't utilizing VBA for small repetitive daily or weekly needs might want to consider taking a class and learn to do real honest to goodness programming creating Forms you see on the screen you place your fields and buttons you click on telling it to do things and save the work on a worksheet.

This long winded post shows my teacher side.

Clown,

I'm not getting into anything with you here.

buh-bye...

Dan,

Did the full time college thing for 3 years until a teacher at work approached me about their other employer having some weird system issues. They offered me a deal. Pay me real good for 6 months to figure things out.

So I did.

Gave me time to find other work and fixed their problems.

Dan,

"You were a glorified Excel Spreadsheet installer."

I've never mentioned this.

The for-profit college I taught accounting in the evenings and kept their computers running decided to create an IT degree program. They asked me to do it.

At that time, there was only 1 Vue testing center for Microsoft certifications in the area. I turned the college into a Vue testing center. All exams were proctored.

The first graduating class had 2 guys who completed their MCSE. They were "paper MCSE's" as the old saying goes, but they had the knowledge and hands on skills working at the college. That was years ago. They did manage to build respectable IT support careers, got married and raised families.

I was teaching Active Directory, Windows OS and other stuff.

I found teaching to be the most rewarding part of my career and really time consuming.

Always either getting ready for a class, teaching a class, or talking to students after class or grading their work.

And I filled in for Excel if I had to.

Dan,

"FFS, just admit if it wasn't her laugh, you would've found something else insignificant yet disqualifying."

I never said her laugh was THE reason I didn't vote for her.

You're a very single minded person. Your mind just stays on unimportant details.

The sort of job I did for decades, you'd be overwhelmed.

Laura,

The man Corky linked to sounds interesting.

You should click on the heading and get introduced to this man.

He actually has something to say.

But, like I said, he has plenty of time to shoot himself in the foot.

Mod,

One thing we know for sure.

If Kamala had won, Obama would actually be in office for a 4th term.

If the shoe was on the other foot, Democrats would be screaming bloody murder.

But...they don't care.

I can't blame them. Republicans would do it, too, if they could (and actually may have the opportunity someday)

Just politics.

Corky,

That was a pointless video. I watched 3-5 seconds of the opening and it was another waste of time video.

What a kooky vain society we've become people who live in front of cameras because they like looking at and hearing themselves.

If it was truly educational, that's one thing. But a video that starts out where I can pretty well guess he's mocking people and I have no time for that.

That's why I rarely click on anything from Corky. It's usually asinine and geared towards simple minded people. I have ideas what he might have said and don't care to know for sure.

Now...if someone wants to put it in a post, I read it.

Donner,

That is actually funny.

Legal,

Tell me 5 thing Kamala promised to get done.

Zed,

Trump or Cackles.

That was the choice.

Sometimes people vote against someone, rather than for someone.

I voted against Kamala.