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[–] Brujones@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Excel flash fill is amazingly bad. I've never seen produce anything but unintelligible garbage.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You’re dragging it wrong

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Flash fill is not the result of user dragging. It's an automatic prediction done by Excel while you type. Therefore, the commonly horrible output is not the result of user error.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Ok but then my double entendre wouldn’t work…¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

So it is software gore 👍

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 months ago

It either works flawlessly or not at all in my experience.