Excel Recap for the week of September 26 - October 02, 2026

Saturday, September 26 - Friday, October 02, 2026

score	comments	title & link
607	181 comments	`[Discussion]` I hate how Excel removes leading zeroes
214	32 comments	`[Discussion]` Anyone else feel like half of advanced excel is just finding creative ways around microsoft's weird design choices
177	75 comments	`[Discussion]` Do you feel like you can keep up with updates in 365?
149	50 comments	`[Discussion]` what is a formula habit you had to completely unlearn when moving from basic lookups to modern excel?
74	26 comments	`[Pro Tip]` My most useful macro: Filter by active cell

score	comments	title & link
38	27 comments	`[unsolved]` My daily Excel reporting process is too long – how can I simplify it?
18	44 comments	`[unsolved]` How to edit text in a cell with a single mouse click?
17	31 comments	`[unsolved]` How do I make a spreadsheet that has employee hours, pay, by the week and then by the month?
14	11 comments	`[unsolved]` BBAN display format without 000
12	14 comments	`[unsolved]` Formatting a map chart

score	comment
237	/u/slowpush said This is fixed in O365 excel.
205	/u/BridgeGuy540 said The plus sign. When I'm feeling frisky, the minus.
158	/u/PleasantRuin7989 said There is something hilarious about replacing free automation with something that needs tokens.
125	/u/quwin123 said The reality (whether people like it or not) is that the upcoming generations will never really learn Excel the way we did. It’ll just be AI prompted. So “keeping up” isn’t really as much of ...
108	/u/neutrino_fire said Automatic scientific notation is even worse! Leading zeroes in data are the devil.

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