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[Dural]

I can't for the life of me understand why everyone at my job uses excel for publishing documents. I've used word for decades for creating documents and I come to this place and everyone is doing everything backwards. Anyone else see something like this?

Spoiler: Kind of large

 

[haxan7]

Putting images on the side like that is actually gonna be simpler for most people to do in Excel.

They probably tried Word a long time ago and noped out.

 

[GeorgPrime]

I create documents in powerpoint

 

[cormack12]

Wtf. They probably like the worksheets single view setup to be honest. Resembles more of a manual.

 

[Tesseract]

it keeps everything lock steady, easier callbacks

i prefer things messier but respect some of the principles

 

[StormCell]

Yeah, I was going to say, OP, how do you know their way is backwards? I've actually seen this being done a lot, especially at more tech-oriented companies. Unless you're a technical writer or information design type of person, Excel spreadsheets make a lot of sense for formatting documentation. Additionally, you can send your customers that kind of documentation AND include a copy of the invoice or even an invoice calculator-of-sorts, if you want.

 

[StormCell]

I create documents in powerpoint

I bet all of your company's invoices have sound and flashing text, amirit??

 

[Tesseract]

I bet all of your company's invoices have sound and flashing text, amirit??

 

[poppabk]

I bet all of your company's invoices have sound and flashing text, amirit??

It's the transitions that really make a good invoice. Just don't ever use the same one twice, keep mixing it up, keep the viewer on their toes. Try following up a star wipe with all the text bouncing onto the page followed by a spiral wipe - looks very professional.

 

[BigBooper]

It's way easier to have multiple borders and group cells like that in Excel than to do the same in Word.

 

[Dural]

It's way easier to have multiple borders and group cells like that in Excel than to do the same in Word.

That's the thing though, it doesn't need to look like that. The only reason it does is because they're using excel to create it. We have documents that look like a normal word processing document but were created in excel, the one I used as an example was becasue I just received it in an email.

 

[BigBooper]

That's the thing though, it doesn't need to look like that. The only reason it does is because they're using excel to create it. We have documents that look like a normal word processing document but were created in excel, the one I used as an example was becasue I just received it in an email.

It's also easier to group connected documents together via a workbook. Sure, you don't have to do it this way, but it's faster and more organized than having a bunch of separate word documents in the same folder. Excel is simply more powerful in every way.

 

[eot]

Thank fuck nobody in academia uses Excel

Spoiler

Except the admin staff

 

[infinitys_7th]

In terms of Office products, I use Excel by far the most. It has integration with our data historian so I can easily automate production reports and data collection, and the grid format makes it easy to always have neat reports with consistent spacing. It is also great for SOPs because, again, the grid keeps everything consistent. If I am doing data analysis, each sheet can be it's own part of the project and I can call back or name cells/ranges for a summary sheet. Before I had access to Minitab I did statistical work in Excel with the toolpak or with custom calculator sheets and macros.

If I'm writing an actual paper Word is better, of course, but for reports and manuals and data stuff Excel shines.

 

[EverydayBeast]

I hope people use Google Drive too to me that's incredible

 

[infinitys_7th]

It's the transitions that really make a good invoice. Just don't ever use the same one twice, keep mixing it up, keep the viewer on their toes. Try following up a star wipe with all the text bouncing onto the page followed by a spiral wipe - looks very professional.

Christ, that's a nightmare. I only use Powerpoint for high-level communications and work to keep the longest presentations under 10 slides with charts and short explanations. And throwing in animations. . .

. . .is just wasting people's time.

 

[LemmingWithaParachute]

Its been a while as fortunately I have no reason to use it at the moment, but Word can sod off.

I swear Word is just an internal program designed for MS employees and companies, as theyre seemingly the only ones who know how to actually work the thing, but they thought they may as well make some money off it and started selling it as the next best thing.

Its such a temperamental program where a small change or addition like adding an image can break a documents formatting so severely that even "Undo" and Ctrl-z collectively shrug their shoulders.

MS Word is Microsoft's word processing app equivalent of Linux. Illogical and designed for the people who designed it.

That's the thing though, it doesn't need to look like that. The only reason it does is because they're using excel to create it. We have documents that look like a normal word processing document but were created in excel, the one I used as an example was becasue I just received it in an email.

Whether Im fun at parties or not is, quite frankly, none of your business, but I really dont think you should be posting internal documents online.

Say you go for a new job and this current job didnt end on good terms, youll still need it as a reference and maybe they tell the new company that you share internal documents on a gaming forum for shits and giggles.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Oh, man. You should try working in Japan or for a Japanese company.

 

[Gp1]

i'll would have done that at word or even powerpoint. But i understand the idea, especially if you look at the multiple tabs bellow as a way of group diverse different procedures in a single document/archive.

ps. Wait until they have to write a postgrad/specialization thesis.