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sfu@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ngwoo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Excel is maybe the one place I can see AI being useful because lots of people can describe what they want a spreadsheet to do but not actually do it.

  I just wouldn’t trust it to do it right

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  • sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which means you have to check each and every formula and we all now how difficult it is to read and understand excel formulas we didn’t write ourselves…

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    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I find the ones I write myself hard enough to parse after 15 minutes of writing them.

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• Alaknar@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can just imaging an AI tool going in the messing one little thing up, and it being near impossible to find the error.

  It doesn’t put formulas into the cells. It will write the formula for you, but you have to put it in yourself.

  Also, there’s versioning in Office, so your spreadsheet blowing up for whatever reason isn’t a problem at all - just roll back to the previous version of the file.

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  • sfu@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Alaknar@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ll become better at spreadsheets

      Great! Thing is: a day only has 24 hours and right now I need to get better at managing IT infrastructure and business processes, not spreadshets.

      If you have the time to research Excel - go for it! Absolutely nobody is forcing you to use Copilot.

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• TheGreyGhost@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not jazzed about AI in document editors and spreadsheet software because I’m dyslexic enough that I have trouble finding some big errors.

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