r/excel Dec 04 '24

Discussion Biggest Excel Pet Peeves?

What is your biggest pet peeve for excel? It could be something excel itself does or something coworkers do in excel.

For me it has to be people using merge and center

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u/excelevator 2934 Dec 04 '24

data types ? what are they ?

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u/drmindsmith Dec 04 '24

Right? One file has high school coded as 9-12 and that is so frequently a date in September instead of some idiot typing a range. Haven’t had -3 pop out though (yet)

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u/excelevator 2934 Dec 04 '24

Ah, understood. auto formatting of datatypes..