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Critical work in Excel is fragile and manual

Analytics and BI4 posts from 4 people4d active+11 post in the last 7 days, 1 the 7 days before (steady)

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Posts per day4 posts, Sep 2 to Sep 25

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> and launch the program I sat down to get into, without thinking "Oh yeah, I meant to edit that excel file..." and going on a 30 minute tangent. I have the opposite problem. I leave things on the desktop as an intentional reminder to get back to them, but it doesn't work.Hacker News commentszahlmanSep 24yesterday
I can write code to fix this. I should not have to write code to fix this....r/excel post.. The Teams message was meant to be a slightly humorous way to express my frustration/disappointment to colleagues outside the email thread with our boss about said data. Rant incoming. . Could I have just thrown Python at this nonsense and built something much more...r/dataengineeringu/EmeraldEmesisSep 1213 days ago
I think I can. In 2026 Excel is unusable for me (I cannot see the active cell at a glance, I cannot trace dependent cells to “debug” my formulas, I cannot save directly to my local hard disk with a keystroke combination- I have to click around to avoid OneDrive) Outlook freezes...Hacker News commentsdh2022Sep 72 weeks ago
Feature idea: read_excel support for password-protected (encrypted) workbooks### Description I know read_excel has trimmed engines before (pyxlsb got dropped in #16784 a few months after calamine landed, once calamine covered the same ground), so this isn't another "please add a fast engine" request. calamine and openpyxl can't read password-protected...pola-rs/polarsGabrielMarquezMatteSep 23 weeks ago

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4 posts from 4 people in 3 places, about 1 a week over 23 days. Mostly on Hacker News comments, r/dataengineering, pola-rs/polars. Tools named alongside: PyPI, Polars.

Frustration Frustration 3 of 3· Seen on Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub issues

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Posts that state a pain and match the "spreadsheets" rule about Excel. First post Sep 2, 2026, latest Sep 24, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method

History

  • 2026-09-25 Added: Critical work in Excel is fragile and manual (3 posts)

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