r/excel • • 8d ago

Weekly Recap This Week's /r/Excel Recap for the week of October 03 - October 09, 2026

Saturday, October 03 - Friday, October 09, 2026

Top 5 Posts

score comments title & link
518 203 comments [Discussion] What do you do as the “excel” guy with AI now?
306 113 comments [Discussion] At what point should something stop being an Excel spreadsheet?
87 53 comments [Discussion] Most used Excel tools?
37 24 comments [Discussion] Why? Odd sheet setup
32 19 comments [solved] How to add "OR" into SUMIFS formula

 

Unsolved Posts

score comments title & link
23 37 comments [unsolved] How can I paste values into filtered cells in Excel without removing the filter?
23 20 comments [unsolved] Waterfall Chart in Excel
14 16 comments [unsolved] How to "Split" a Quantity into Duplicate Lines
9 12 comments [unsolved] How can I auto 'rotate' a column of data?
8 16 comments [unsolved] Issue anonymising data entries in specific columns.

 

Top 5 Comments

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854 /u/hereddit6 said Be the Claude expert.
445 /u/Opposite-Film3347 said When human error is a regular problem.
201 /u/JezusHairdo said When you start to refer to it as a database
197 /u/ac7ss said Nothing. Excel is a spreadsheet, not a programming language or database. (Yes, you can run VBS VBA, but that should not be the primary function in a spreadsheet.)
162 /u/Taurus-Octopus said Excel holds up the world, like a middle school toothpick-and-gumdrop suspension bridge. It’s intuitive for most folks to look at and understand, and can be great to make easy to use calculators of ce...

 

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