# What do YOU think Excel is for? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2021, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-excel-is-for/942092 "2021-05-14T17:29:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 99
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-excel-is-for/942092/99 "2021-10-10T21:46:34Z")
Even at that, if they’re formatted in a standardized way, it’s super trivial to just parse out that number data into its own column and deal with it as such. Excel, and spreadsheets in general ought to be used for some combination of calculation and presentation, and very _small_ scale databasey type stuff. Problem is, things have a tendency to grow, and stuff that someone developed in Excel with macros and all sorts of jack-legged workarounds is devilishly hard to reverse engineer and translate into anything else. So keep that in mind- if you think that your procedure might end up getting too big for a spreadsheet, don’t do it in a spreadsheet in the first place, regardless of how fast you might need it, or how easy it might be in the moment. It’ll save you trouble in the long haul, believe me. > [@Bootb](#): > > Wildly incorrect. That’s a meal and drinks for 3 people at a nice restaurant. Dude, you need to get out more. If $70 for 3 people with drinks is “nice”, I’d hate to see “normal”. Generally speaking, nice _starts_ at about $70 per person with drinks and can go up from there. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-excel-is-for/942092)._