Post #4492249
2026-08-10 22:16 UTC
@eyrea@mstdn.ca @paulshryock@phpc.social @jschauma@mstdn.social
If you built a report that needs the references updated every few days, you built it wrong. Instead of relying on copilot to fix it, you could learn more about formulas and get the satisfaction of seeing the outcome that you want. I work with multiple workbooks with multiple sheets and every one has been built by me, from scratch, sometimes learning new formulas and VBA tricks as I go because the possibilities are vast.
If I used copilot I wouldn't get any new knowledge or experience, and no satisfaction.
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@eyrea@mstdn.ca 2026-08-10 22:48
@JaxVent@lgbtqia.space @paulshryock@phpc.social @jschauma@mstdn.social Actually, I did both. I asked Copilot how to make it update automatically to today's date. Now I know more formulas and have a better design. The key is I didn't just go in blindly. I told it what I wanted and my best guess as to how to set it up. The assumption here seems to be that people just ask blindly and copy and paste.