Genuinely struck by this. One of those things I always knew about on one level, and am quite surprised by on another.

Taps the sign again

This is awesome

The #D365 click tax from having to close #CoPilot every time I open a new window (or refresh an old one) is just too much .

Someone, please, make it go away. I know it's there (and everywhere else) if I need it.

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better?

Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence.

Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”.

Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it.

Crazy!

Thanks. I'm from the UK and we don't really use that term here. We just talk about the clocks going back/forwards and British Summer Time.

I hate the fact that daylight savings changes now means that I not only have to remember to turn the clocks back / forward. but I also now need to remember to update all my #PowerBI schedule refreshes.

I love this example of the limitations of user personnas.

Ha!
I must admit I like Excel. I get why people use it. But if that's where you want the data to end up there's no reason on earth for it to be going such a fallible, overly-bureaucratic process like that.

Fortunately Covid admissions numbers weren't a big deal or anything, right?

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I discovered yesterday that the best-I-can-build dashboards I was making for my manager were having stats cut and pasted off them for their manager who then forwarded them to their manager's PA who then copies them into... an Excel spreadsheet

Potential quick wins for #Excel development:
Come up with some way of commenting out in the formula box.

(I know there are work arounds but they're too confusing to the uninitiated)

Classic

*I took it during lockdown, but the first time the facial verification wouldn't work so I had to persuade them this wasn't my fault, book a new day to resit and then I had to drill into my laptop to get it to work. Not fun.

I've only done the DP-300 but that was such a stressful experience*, that I dare not miss the deadline, but paradoxically it also means I tend to leave it to the last possible moment, gnawing away at me for months.

Parthenope (2024) - Colonna Sonora YouTube video by Bojackhorseman

Oops. Link was meant to be:
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Police are searching for a light-fingered kit-Cat burglar

Only just discovered this so apologies if everyone else knows about it, but in #Excel if you hover the mouse over the ribbon, you can use the scroll wheel to rapidly scroll through the tabs on the ribbon.

Works in Word & PowerPoint as well but not #PowerBI

Also, this which is a soundtrack so it varies a bit in terms of introspection, but some good bits.

Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Debe live at Bozar YouTube video by Ali Farka Touré

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I've never got into that so thankfully that one didn't affect me.

Ha! I navigate round these things quite a lot so, for me, it's more a click tax issue. Might just have to rearrange my favourites bar...

Can someone just confirm this for me, please?
In a #PowerBI app, when you pressed "Go back" didn't it used to take us back to the workspace that app was from?

Now we just go back to our home page, which (if true) is a step backwards IMO.

Ouch

...So typically I *was* the end user. And if I wasn't I was usually doing something for someone not Excel-literate, so would just send them the final sheet. So I can see how your method makes a lot of sense, I just never considered that as an option! 2/2

Thanks Wyn, that's interesting. I think before I discovered Power Query I was often doing various stages of transformation and cleaning (CRM type data) & to keep a track of the journey I guess my habit became to copy tabs before/after key manipulations and continue on the new tab (working L→R)...1/2

Time for the big debate...

When you add new tabs in #Excel do you order them with most recent on the left, or the most recent on the right (so that you "start" at the left and work to the right)

Great gif. I've re-used it already

How anyone who lived through the internet revolution can argue otherwise is beyond me. People said the same stuff then that they're saying now.