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Timbz
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Sep 03, 2023

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Hi

 

I'm having trouble accessing the help in Excel. I have a question that is very hard to explain in writing. I'm trying to reach someone and have had no luck. 

 

Is there any way to ask someone a quick question?

 

THanks

Tim

 

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  • mathetes's avatar
    mathetes
    Silver Contributor

    Timbz 

     

    I have a question that is very hard to explain in writing.

    Is there any way to ask someone a quick question?

     

    I am having a hard time reconciling those two statements. How can you turn something hard to explain into a quick question??

     

    What you can do, that would make the explanation less arduous perhaps, is to post a copy of the spreadsheet in question on OneDrive or the equivalent, pasting a link here that grants access. Then, with that as part of the picture, your explanation would have a visual aid and might not be so hard.

     

    OR, if there is no spreadsheet yet, take a pass at that "hard to describe" question by breaking things down into these parts:

    • the situation (challenge/business need/whatever)
    • the raw data you'd be working with (let's call it input data)
    • the result or output desired...what you want that raw input data turned into

     

    Leave "How you want to get there"--the process or the calculation--to us.

     

    Give it a try. 

     

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