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Excel 的第一条规则：别告诉别人你很擅长它
The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
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这篇《华尔街日报》文章指出一个职场现象：擅长 Excel 的人往往不愿声张，因为一旦暴露就会被同事当作免费技术支持，陷入无穷的表格求助。文章引发广泛共鸣，讨论者分享了 Excel 高手的视频资源，以及 Excel 在缺乏正规工具的环境中如何成为事实上的自动化平台。
为什么经久不衰：Excel 是全球最普及的'隐形编程工具'，文章戳中了无数'办公室里的 Excel 专家'的痛点，多年后依然适用。
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推荐 Martin Shkreli 的 Excel 演示视频，称其水平如 Vim 高手般令人惊叹
你知道谁 Excel 用得特别溜吗？Martin Shkreli——就是那个现在蹲监狱的华尔街混蛋。之前有人告诉我 YouTube 上有他演示 Excel 的视频，简直像魔法，就像第一次看 Vim 高手操作一样。不管你怎么评价这个人，他 Excel 确实用得出神入化。
OskarS查看英文原文
You know who's awesome at Excel? Martin Shkreli. You know, the Wall Street asshole who's in jail now? A while back, someone told me "hey, dude, there are these videos on YouTube where Martin Shkreli uses Excel, and they're fucking magic. It's like the first time you watched someone who's really good at Vim. " It's true: [0]. Say what you will about that little heartless douchebag, he's fucking awesome at using Excel. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw
推荐 Excel 之父 Joel Spolsky 的教学视频
说到精彩的 Excel 视频，Excel 联合团队开发者 Joel Spolsky 的《You Suck at Excel》是我看过最好的之一，他掌握着海量的 Excel 知识。
lozaning查看英文原文
If we're sharing awesome excel videos, You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky has to be among the best I've ever seen. Joel, being on the team that made excel, has an incredible amount of excel knowledge. The video is meant to be in the same vein as the You Suck at Photoshop videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
指出数据库替代方案在易用性上远不如 Excel，Access 是唯一例外
人们总说'用真正的数据库'，行，但可视化数据录入在哪？简单的临时报表在哪？表单在哪？好像只有 Windows 上的 Access 是唯一不需要一队程序员或 Oracle/SAP 式企业授权的可用工具。
guelo查看英文原文
People say "use a real database", fine, but where is the visual data entry? Where are the easy adhoc reports? Where are the forms? I guess if you're on Windows you can use Microsoft Access, but that's the only accesible tool I know of that doesn't require a team of programmers or an enterprise license for some Oracle/SAP type monstrosity.
在系统受限的环境中，Excel 自动化能力反而成就了职业跃迁
我在一个技术极落后的政府机构工作了近十年，虽然职位与技术无关，但仅凭用 Excel 自动化大量重复文书工作的能力，我迅速成了技术问题的首选专家。系统完全锁死、无法安装任何软件，我被迫深挖 Excel 和 Access，后来这些'基础办公技能'成了我职业发展的巨大资产，帮我跳槽到更高级的技术岗位。
scrapcode查看英文原文
I worked for a government agency for just shy of a decade that was extremely behind the times as far as technology goes. My official capacities were never directly tech related, but I quickly excelled to the top as the "go-to" SME for anything technical almost solely because of my ability to automate the ridiculous amount of monotonous repetitive paperwork through Excel. I would have never used Excel and macros as the tool to automate the things that I did, but these systems were completely locked down without the ability to install anything or use many online services. I eventually started building more complex tools in Access, and improved or was able to do away with many processes that took many man-hours previously. Without the system constraints I never would've had a practical reason to do such a deep dive on Excel and Access to learn ways of accomplishing things that I usually did through programming. In the grand scheme of things, those basic "computer applications" skills have been a huge asset to my career and eventually allowed me to break into some more advanced tech related positions with other agencies off of those accomplishments alone. Sure, there were some annoying requests from people to fix some old spreadsheets they had limping around, but in my situation it was completely worth it.
许多关键业务系统其实是层层打补丁的 Excel 表格
我曾以为客户那边一个又慢又烂的服务是'用 Excel 写的'玩笑话，后来发现真是如此：从手工记录的表格，到加脚本实现业务逻辑，再到加策略脚本，最后别的部门要自动化，又在上面硬接了一个 SOAP API。不知道还有多少 Excel 表格在暗中充当大型服务的支柱。
praptak查看英文原文
When I had to integrate a system at a customer site there was one service which was so slow and crappy that we joked it had been written in Excel. Later we found out this was actually the case. At first somebody manually tracked stuff in a sheet. Then somebody added scripts for business logic. Another layer of scripts for policy enforcement. Then some other department requested automation, so it got a SOAP API hacked on top of this (COM underneath? I think that's how you access Excel from other apps?). I wonder how many other Excel sheets are secretly workhorses for big services.
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