I’ve had three different people ask me how my day was, to which I answered “fine.” They then pressed for details expecting, no doubt, me to regail them with tales of puppets gone bad. Alas. I’m working on a spreadsheet, which I explained. Two of the people did not believe me when I explained that it is deathly boring.
For those unbelievers, here is one of the formulas that I’m writing.
Tags: Journal, Puppetry, WritingIF(AND(B2< =5;OR(C3<=5;C3=11;C2=1);OR(B3<=5;B3=11));"in January - May, and November";IF(AND(B2<6;B3>5;B3<11;OR(C2=1;AND(C3>5;C3<11)));”in June-October”;IF(AND(B3=12;OR(C3=12;C2=1));”in December”;IF(AND(B2=6;OR(C3=5;C3=10;C2=1);OR(B3=5;B3=10));”in May and October”;IF(AND(B2>6;B2<9;B3>4;B3<11);”in May - October”;IF(OR(B2=9;B2=10);”year round.”;IF(AND(OR(AND(Formulas.C3>5;Formulas.C3<10);C2=1);AND(B3>5;B3<10));”in June-September”;”THE MONTH FIELD DOES NOT MATCH THE DATE ENTERED”)))))))
Mmm… yup, that’s pretty boring. UNTIL you get to that exclamatory ending! Boy, I sure didn’t see THAT coming!
Ah, spreadsheets! I find it helps to use the Conditional Formatting to change the font and background colors when the cell has certain values. It doesn’t really make the data more interesting, but one can say “Oh, look! It turned green!”
What you can’t tell here, is that some of these cells reference other formulas. And macros! Oh boy. What fun those are…
Whats fun is when you get so many formulae and so much data, that you bog down the whole machine by changing one data field. Now thats good fun.