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Congrats Brad - first Excel genius

Asked by: brettdj

A fantastic achievement in under a year. Especially for a TA with a relatively low amount of questions and more than its fair share of keyboard pounding experts.

Best wishes

Cheers

Dave

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2004-07-19 at 02:18:49ID21063138
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Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet Software

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Answers

 

by: CSLARSENPosted on 2004-07-19 at 02:58:18ID: 11581823

Brad,
Congratulations from Copenhagen, Denmark.
Always interessting to "meet" you in questions.
best regards
Carsten

 

by: mvidasPosted on 2004-07-19 at 05:17:43ID: 11582479

Congratulations, Brad!  It's not really a surprise that you got it, but you definately deserve it!
Matt

 

by: JustinCase2Posted on 2004-07-19 at 05:42:21ID: 11582646

Brad, I was watching your amazing point escalation with interest and when I saw that you were gonna hit the 1 mil mark soon, I was fully prepared to send a similar post when you got there, but Dave beat me to it :)

Thank you for all of your help and the help you give to everyone! I don't know how you do it, I'm in awe..

Congratulations!!!!!

All the best,
Justin

 

by: roos01Posted on 2004-07-19 at 06:05:48ID: 11582831

Brad,
Congratulations from Tilburg, the Netherlands.
great achievement especially the time it took you to reach it. I learned and still learning a lot from you. (and I believe others also. which is to me the spirit of EE). perhaps this should be the new goal for you, a new level, EE Spirit:)

Jeroen

 

by: sebastienmPosted on 2004-07-19 at 15:23:53ID: 11587988

Congrats, Brad!  Impressive!

Regards,
Sebastien

 

by: byundtPosted on 2004-07-19 at 16:15:32ID: 11588301

It's probably time for me to sit on my thumbs and let someone else answer these questions for a change — but I don't think that would be anywhere near as much fun as hanging around you people.

This has got to be the best Technical Area at EE, because all the regulars genuinely want to help and add value to the discussion. I can't recall the last time I saw squabbling or backbiting. I would have guessed that Excel was one of the more active TAs, but it's only number 45 according to ameba's ranking http://www.geocities.com/ameba_vb/qpost/tatest.html

The MIS professionals among you have added some discipline to the coding examples posted here—and certainly put a lot of my coding practices to shame. Others of you are amateurs, and by approaching a problem from a completely unexpected direction make my head spin.  But all of you have shared your tricks along the way, and could easily have earned a million points if there were only enough hours in the day.

 

by: DreamboatPosted on 2004-07-22 at 00:03:07ID: 11609800

Brad:

You make me sick.
Really.
I want to projectile vomit.

You know why?

'Cause I'm terribly jealous.

I wanna grow up and be just like you some day!!
You're the bomb!!

Congratulations!!

 

by: mdmackillopPosted on 2004-07-22 at 01:14:50ID: 11610087

Congratutulations Brad,

1Mb points and still so young!!!

MD

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2004-07-22 at 05:53:54ID: 11611795

Ditto what Dreamboat said :)

Congratulations Brad!  

Joanne

 

by: JustinCase2Posted on 2004-07-22 at 06:26:29ID: 11612047

Now we've got DB puking again. I think we should suggest a doctor. I would, as a start, reccomend no more viewing of "The Excorcist". Or *any* film with Ben Afllleck.

And, none of Brad's posts either ;)

(Hi DB! :))

Congrats again Brad!

Regards to all,
Justin

 

by: byundtPosted on 2004-07-22 at 06:57:28ID: 11612285

Justin,
Cut me some slack here, please.

I have used your CHOOSE function in a half dozen questions since I first saw you apply it. I just love Dreamboat's "copy a 1 and Edit...Paste Special...Multiply" trick to convert text (including dates) to numbers. I have been trying to use Fanpages' Hungarian prefix method for naming variables, though old practices die hard. And though I've used Dave's RegExp several times, I feel more like a "script kiddie" than master of the technique.

There's a lot you can learn by reading other people's posts.
Brad

 

by: R_RajeshPosted on 2004-07-22 at 07:04:27ID: 11612356

Congratulations, Brad. It is indeed a fantastic achievement.

all the best,
Rajesh

 

by: JustinCase2Posted on 2004-07-22 at 07:27:52ID: 11612616

Brad, my last post was a just a sort of "in" joke with DB. When we were discussing Dave reaching the hall of fame a while back, similar jokes were made, you may recall.

I was just poking fun with you (and DB), did not mean to offend. My apologies :(

Sorry, guess my sense of humor apparently gets over-the-top on occasion. Please accept my apologies.

Best,
Justin

 

by: DreamboatPosted on 2004-07-22 at 09:09:09ID: 11613664

Brad: Someone has done me one better on the "Times One Trick". Copy any BLANK cell and Edit-Paste Special-Add... :)

 

by: byundtPosted on 2004-07-22 at 18:13:18ID: 11618106

Oooh. Good one Dreamboat.

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