Mechanical engineer here who could not live without it. And every meeting I go to, we are presented with Excel charts in one form or another. I love it tbh.
A few main ones: either to list out current & upcoming projects wrt cost & time (the logistical/budget parts) and also columns to sort out things like a pressure, temperature, volume, voltage, current, surface area, etc, depending on what you’re working on. My degree is ME, but I also work a lot of electrical projects so the ability to sort all of these properties out in an easy to read chart is immensely helpful.
22 Comments
RedeZede@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 2y
Well, damn. I only know Excel. Kind of feel like I've wasted some time now.
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Have you tried really looking at some wildflowers?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Nah, you're fine. Just hit F11, and import the rest of that nonsense using VBS.
falsem@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
Sorry, we really need someone that knows Excel for this job. We have your contact info
scarpentier@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 2y
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y
Damn, Eternity gives you an hour?
Charges me double rate after 30 minutes.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
That's cool, but... you could automate that with macros.
BlackNo1@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
i too love william blake
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works · -16 pts · 2y
People still use Excel?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee · 38 pts · 2y
Only every business you dont think about, and all the ones you do.
ulu_mulu@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
True, but I also personally use it for MMORPGs to keep track of things on my armies of alts :D
doleo@lemmy.one · -1 pts · 2y
And those are the worst ones
Grandsinge@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 2y
Excel is my daily driver for basic data analysis and graph making. For more complicated tasks I use R.
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
Mechanical engineer here who could not live without it. And every meeting I go to, we are presented with Excel charts in one form or another. I love it tbh.
affiliate@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
what do you use excel for in your job? (i don’t know anything about mechanical engineering)
PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
A few main ones: either to list out current & upcoming projects wrt cost & time (the logistical/budget parts) and also columns to sort out things like a pressure, temperature, volume, voltage, current, surface area, etc, depending on what you’re working on. My degree is ME, but I also work a lot of electrical projects so the ability to sort all of these properties out in an easy to read chart is immensely helpful.
affiliate@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
thanks for the answer, i can see how that would be very helpful
Kbin_space_program@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y
What do you use? The POS that is Google sheets? It can't even import a CSV right.
Grandsinge@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
Ugh, Google Sheets is so bad it makes me laugh.
vsh@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Grandsinge@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2y
Better than Keep?
dom@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Excel is great at manipulating low amounts of data and building functions and queries without any programming needed.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
Hurr durr mainstream software bad!