Are you an Excel guru?

[fullyautomatix]

Its amazing how many trading firms and insurance companies till use Excel for all the calculation stuff.

[Mich the Tester]

I thought I was, until I saw some of the spreadsheets this project uses

Test them and you'll probably find out clientco's excel guru isn't as clever as they thought he was.

[Old Greg]

Ditto.

Not difficult, granted.

I suspect not drinking out of a beaker makes me look like a genius compared to some colleagues.

And why won't jabbing an appropriately coloured crayon at the screen apply conditional formatting?

[Old Greg]

Test them and you'll probably find out clientco's excel guru isn't as clever as they thought he was.

We outsource all our testing to gentlemen from the sub-continent and they're too busy with important tasks, thank you very much.

[MaryPoppins]

And why won't jabbing an appropriately coloured crayon at the screen apply conditional formatting?

They wouldn't know: they eat the crayons.

[Mich the Tester]

We outsource all our testing to gentlemen from the sub-continent and they're too busy with important tasks, thank you very much.

Yeah, those 'every test passed' reports don't write themselves you know. Well, actually they do these days, so those Bobs must be very very cheap.

[Old Greg]

They wouldn't know: they eat the crayons.

Just cos yours are on solids now, there's no need to show off.

[MarillionFan]

Yes. I am an Excel guru. I can get the little fella to do things you've only dreamed off. I used to train advanced techniques to data analysts & VBA. I've hooked the Google maps Geocode web service up to an Excel function to clean account data & provide lat/longitude for an internal map system. All good fun.

[Old Greg]

Yeah, those 'every test passed' reports don't write themselves you know. Well, actually they do these days, so those Bobs must be very very cheap.

Ours are excellent. Little background in the industry but have a real insight beyond running test scripts to indicate where the workflow will fall down due to poor design.

[Old Greg]

Yes. I am an Excel guru. I can get the little fella to do things you've only dreamed off. I used to train advanced techniques to data analysts & VBA. I've hooked the Google maps Geocode web service up to an Excel function to clean account data & provide lat/longitude for an internal map system. All good fun.

It's a bit early in the morning to hear about your little fella.