Schoolboy Error

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Had an Excel spreadsheet full of comments to review before a meeting.

Was warned it would take a long time.

Pleasantly surprised to find there were only 30 or so rows and it only took me half an hour.

Pinged it back to the PM in time for this morning's meeting.

5 minutes later, an irate call - "I thought you said you'd done this? You've only answered 30 questions, what about the other 400 rows?"

Excel has (to me, at least) a very annoying feature whereby it saves its scroll state so when I opened the file and started on what I thought was row 1 I was, in fact, on row 400 or so because it had been saved whilst scrolled nearly all the to the bottom.

And I hate to say it but its not the first time either.

 

[AtW]

Excel has (to me, at least) a very annoying feature whereby it saves its scroll state so when I opened the file and started on what I thought was row 1 I was, in fact, on row 400 or so because it had been saved whilst scrolled nearly all the to the bottom.

Are you too stupid to read actual row numbers on the left?

It's not like it takes a genious to notice scrolling that was designed to indicate how much data is visible vs total:

Web by Design: Introduction To Windows 95

If only I could afford to bribe NAT to ban such a twunt like yourself

 

[Bunk]

Are you too stupid to read actual row numbers on the left?

It's not like it takes a genious to notice scrolling that was designed to indicate how much data is visible vs total:

Web by Design: Introduction To Windows 95

If only I could afford to bribe NAT to ban such a twunt like yourself

At least he's figured out how to use the Ribbon

 

[northernladuk]

I think the term WGAS was thought up just for moments such as this.

 

[OwlHoot]

I've been known to miss pages after the first on multi-page spreadsheets.

People who want to do everything on spreadsheets aren't entirely normal IMHO, especially when many of the cells are different sizes and colours, like a ransom note.

 

[doomage]

I thought this was going to be another Jimmy Savile type thread

 

[Pondlife]

Moron Level: Pacharan

Congrats

 

[chef]

Hallo SAS/Malc,

So the woanders and complexities of SAS are starting to stretch you then?

Is this the "writing a book" retirement practice you spoke about?

 

[EternalOptimist]

been dying to use this

 

[speling bee]

Are you too stupid to read actual row numbers on the left?

It's not like it takes a genious to notice scrolling that was designed to indicate how much data is visible vs total:

Web by Design: Introduction To Windows 95

If only I could afford to bribe NAT to ban such a twunt like yourself

genius