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This Week's /r/Excel Recap for the week of May 23 - May 29, 2026

Saturday, May 23 - Friday, May 29, 2026

Top 5 Posts

score comments title & link
285 340 comments [Discussion] Do people still prefer Excel over Google Sheets for daily work?
192 59 comments [unsolved] How to remove this copilot thing ?
79 32 comments [unsolved] Do you guys actually use Excel's native "Trace Dependents" for massive files, or is it just an obscure relic?
23 38 comments [unsolved] Confirm character count without the LEN function
21 15 comments [solved] Summarizing data by row and column headers

 

Unsolved Posts

score comments title & link
20 44 comments [unsolved] How do I convert a Train Timetable into an Excel Document?
20 41 comments [unsolved] Is there a way to auto-populate blank cells with a center-aligned dash?
16 34 comments [unsolved] How would you structure an excel/google sheets file to track multiple banks, savings, credit cards, loans, and cash?
14 35 comments [unsolved] Transferring a table from a PDF to Excel
12 16 comments [unsolved] Formula for an Average that Reduces each Month

 

Top 5 Comments

score comment
1,090 /u/Frosty-Article-9635 said Excel all the way
530 /u/Frosty-Article-9635 said Excel all the way and working offline has its own advantages. I don't even like the web version of excel. There are many limitations
407 /u/PeterUssyslayer420 said The AI beatings will continue until shareholder value is created...
299 /u/Mum_Chamber said Google Sheets has barely a fraction of Excel functionality. It wouldn’t be possible for me or my team to use Google Sheets even if we wanted.
146 /u/jeroen-79 said "Once the dependencies become complex, the entire sheet just looks like it's covered in an ugly blue spider web , making it basically impossible to see the actual structure." You don't use it to sho...

 

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