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		codeulike on July 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) The thing about finance trader types removing the F1 keys from their keyboards so they don't accidentally press 'help' while using Excel at high speed says a lot about how handy Excel is (and how slow the Help loads)

ubermonkey on July 12, 2019 [–]

Well, also about how unremittingly shitty F1 help is.

Googling the topic you need help on is invariably faster, even if all you really need is, say, the syntax to a given Excel function.

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