Brandon's Blog

7/11/2006

Aww, Bill and Steve!

Gates and Ballmer are so funny and cute.  They have a special little section in Excel 2000’s code designed to inform me that I am doing something really cool with my formulas.  I mean, I’m not doing anything that should produce errors, so I guess they’re congratulating me on how well I’ve done accumulating knowledge about their product.

But, instead of putting a little message in there like “Good job, Brando!” it says something like “EXCEL.EXE has generated an error and must close.  A log has been created.”  Isn’t that funny and nice?  I just wish those pranksters had let me save first!

[If you want to avoid such accolades, save before (or avoid altogether) using the TRANSPOSE() function on a modestly-large array generated by the OFFSET() function.]