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[–] Brujones@lemmy.world 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You’re dragging it wrong

[–] AlDente@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

So it is software gore 👍