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September 29th, 2006

The new Microsoft Excel misrepresents data by default

Filed under: Cutting the crap, Technology — jm @ 14:53

The default graphs were hideous at best, but now, thanks to a focus-group-tested and user-centric decision probably made by marketing drones without a brain: Microsoft Excel deliberately misrepresents data, because it turns out, users didn’t like empty cells in bar-graphsidiots :-).

Update: to change this non-sensical idiotic default: select the range, open VBE and type “activecell.formatconditions(1).percentmin = 1” in the immediate window

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