Wait, that’s an actual formula. When I first saw this I thought it was an employee going insane and keysmashing into a spreadsheet as evidenced by the “send help”.
Found at work. Send help.
Submitted 2 months ago by sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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rustyfemboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yup, actual formula. Might not even be the most offensive one in the spreadsheet.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait till AI is able to help.
=TEXTJOIN("",TRUE,A330,A443,A556,A669,A782,A895,A1008,A1121,A1234,A1347,A1460,A1573,A1686,A1799,A2112,A2225,A2338,A2451,A2564,A2677,A2790,A3303,A3316,A3329,A3342,A3355,A3368,A3381,A3394,A5407,A5420,A5433,A5446,A5459,A5472,A5485,A5498,A5511,A5524,A5537,A5550,A5563,A5576,A5589,A5602,A5615,A5628,A5641,A5654,A5667)sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
OMG. Which AI tool produced this?
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Claude. To be fair, it had trouble OCR-ing it. After way too much back and forth about the pattern, it produced this:
=LET( rows, SEQUENCE(INT((667-30)/13+1),1,30,13), SUM(INDEX(AA:AA,rows)) )
Which is correct, but obviously the calculations would be best served by reorganizing the table and probably using a pivot table or at least grouping and subtotaling.
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Resume: “Experienced Excel Wizard”
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I must find the monstrous function using virtual arrays that I implemented in a Google sheet of mine when I discovered there’s no limit to how reckless you can be in a single cell.
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I have written similarly awful formulae when I needed to get a csv to export to Google Calendars, but the program I was exporting to wasn’t using Google’s accepted csv headers.
I ended up creating a template that looked at the exported csv file, and then reformatted it in a way that Google liked (and added some extra info along the way.) I needed it to only fill text if an entry actually had info in it, and hide all the text otherwise. So that I could automatically delete empty cells and avoid a bunch of empty calendar entries when importing it into Google. The resulting formula for some of the fields was… Not great. This is what controlled the “name” of each calendar event:
It takes several different potential fields, and combines them into a single field. If there are no entries, it gets left blank.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Damn. At that point I would just switch over to a macro. Although I also have some formulas that xlookup a value, concatenate it, and the xlookup the new concatenated value.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s bonkers but I can follow it, I think. Good work!
Vegeta@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I winced.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
virgin =SUM() users vs chad click at each cell enjoyers
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
What is even happening here? There is a sum of like every 13th cell?
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My guess is that there are multiple tables on one sheet, and this is the summation of the sub-totals.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every 13 cells could be summing the total of multiple years of data. Eg 12 month + 1 total, rinse and repeat. Then summing just the total cells for each year. 💁
Aarkon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I guess this is Excel.