Spreadsheet styles - which do you prefer?

[Greg Truby]

Crud, I'm locked out of editing... I wanted to add that my previous post was in no way a snide remark about our new president's inaugural speech, which I just listened to. Indeed I thought his oration quite good.

 

[steve case]

First thing I do when I get some spreadsheet with all sorts of fancy formatting is go about the business of getting it back to plain vanilla.

 

[Weaver]

It always winds me up when people colour cells in to convey information in a DB type sheet (bad enough as it is) rather than drop in another field with the info, so at least you can filter or count it.

 

[SydneyGeek]

It always winds me up when people colour cells in to convey information in a DB type sheet (bad enough as it is) rather than drop in another field with the info, so at least you can filter or count it.

What, you want data?

Denis

 

[Jon von der Heyden]

What, you want data?

Denis

Nobody (where I work) ever makes sense of the data anyway! The colour is less embarassing...

Ugh, I spend my life summarising colour coded spreadsheets. I'm tempted to change my colleagues color palette to include only black and white!

 

[SydneyGeek]

Sounds good to me!

Except, if you really want to obscure information, a colourful chart and some well-chosen axis scales can go a long way

Denis