Excel Genius

I’m interviewing for a pricing analyst role and I’d love some tips on what they ask in both the Excel practical and interview. Any advice would be great. Thanks.

I’m a finance guy who’s had too many awkward talks with bosses over KPI/Total errors in my reports (probably missed a promotion or 2 because of it). Felt exposed given how important numbers are in th...

Help! What are some good automation/AI tools that integrate with Excel? New client requires every chart to be in native Excel. I'm used to having our Analytics team make Tableau dashboards. Can anyon...

Excel power users wanted 📊 There’s a short-term, remote AI training project with a top-tier research lab looking for advanced Excel users. Work involves realistic spreadsheet tasks (PivotTables, form...

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What is the best AI to use for updating VBA? I’m not familiar with VBA, so I’ve been using ChatGPT 5.2 Thinking to help me update some old macros, but the response time and results have been disappoin...

How many transitioned from excel experts to experts in other tools? what tools you learned were the most impactful and useful?

Anyone using tryshortcut.ai its quite something!

Not sure if this is nerdy or genius, but I track my workouts in Excel. Sets, reps, progress graphs… it’s oddly motivating to see my own “dashboard” of gains.

True story: I once deleted a column I desperately needed and only realized after saving. Cue the heart-stopping panic. Luckily, version history saved me. 😂😂

I love Excel but man… when a file takes forever to open, I start questioning all my life choices. Has anyone figured out a good way to keep files lean when they get huge?

Why is Power Query so terrible at converting an image (of a table of numbers)!? Even high resolution images don't seem to make much difference. Decimal points are missed, the thousand comma separator...

I know with the RANK function it will provide the same ranking to duplicated numbers. How could you bypass that? I’ve tried using IF and it breaks.

It’s funny—Excel is just cells and formulas, but the impact is always about people. A cleaner report means less stress for a teammate. An automated tracker means more time back for someone’s day. Has...

The more I work in Excel, the more I see it as a storytelling tool. Behind every chart or dataset is a story waiting to be told—sometimes about performance, sometimes about people, sometimes about pro...

Looking at old spreadsheets sometimes feels like time travel—I can see past projects, old budgets, and even how my skills have grown. Some of those formulas make me cringe, but they also remind me of ...

If my last workbook could talk, it would probably say: “Stop overcomplicating me with all these nested IFs!” It made me laugh to imagine my spreadsheets having personalities. If Excel could talk back...

Hey have anyone ever had an Excel mistake that ended up teaching you something valuable?

Not long ago, I showed a coworker a shortcut in Excel that cut their task time in half. Seeing their excitement reminded me how small tips can make a big difference. Sometimes the best part of knowing...