What gives you the most buzz from Excel?

Fazza

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For me, it is the 'magical' handling of large amounts of data quickly using ADO & SQL.

"Give me a lever and I'll move the world" - Archimedes

"Give me SQL and I'll move the data" - Fazza ;)
 

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For me, its doing anything that makes so called 'Advanced Excel Users' eyes bug out as they had no idea Excel was capable of such a thing.
Particulary when they've spent 3 days trying to figure something out and you wander past and get it happening inside of 5 minutes.

New to the realm. Hail to the gurus.
 
Mine is more of VBA that fascinates me. Making applications for work that save tons of time. I love when I get work from someone and them telling me it takes them a day or 2 to do this and then after I get it I throw some new formulas in it and some VBA code and it takes me all of 30 minutes.
 
I love its flexibility. And it pays the bills :wink:

SQL and ADO are right up there, as well as pivot tables based on external data sets, the ability to read / write to OLAP databases, and the speed you get out of using VBA.

Just finished turning a 2-hour manual update of a large Word doc into about a 30-second job...

Denis
 

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