this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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It's not meant for calculations. People do all sorts of calculations in Excel. This is for when you have a bunch of rows with text in them, say for example customer testimonials, and you want to summarize and/or determine sentiment for each one so you can analyze it without reading it all.
I saw a demo of it, and if it works as advertised it could be cool. You can use the results from other queries in other cells, so it feels like using Excel, just with text instead of numbers.
I personally don't have any use for it, but it has a lot more potential to be useful than most of the AI garbage I see.
Sounds like a bad use-case for Excel. I know it's not strictly a numbers tools, but sorting lengthy text? Not sure how I'd approach that, never done it, but that doesn't sound like Excel.
People use Excel for everything. Soo many spreadsheets out there should really have been databases, but the suits have one hammer they know how to use and they're determined to use it.
TL;DR: Sounds like something someone who knows how to use other tools would say
It’d help if the database options weren’t piles of shit: they’re all so particular about data types and column definitions. And then the data entry tools (“forms”) are always a mix of shit UI and insane programming.
Googles “tables” within sheets get reasonably close to what a system like that should look like.
This is what Power Query is for