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[–] Brujones@lemmy.world 54 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You’re dragging it wrong

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 11 months ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 11 months ago

So it is software gore 👍

[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 months ago

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