• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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        2 days ago

        I do it all the time at work as an engineer. Red/bold for bad numbers, green/bold for good numbers. Maybe orange/bold for mixed bag

        • Vlyn@lemmy.zip
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          Red/green isn’t really a good combination due to color blindness. Either go blue/orange or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.

          • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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            1 day ago

            or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.

            C# in Excel can’t even properly pull values from a table correctly. No way I’m going to waste 2-3 trying to make it concatenate non-alphanumeric characters into cells.

            At work, there isn’t anyone I have to send tables to that is colorblind. And if that changes, they can make a request. Until then, I’m sticking with red/green

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              1 day ago

              C# in Excel

              What is this abomination you speak of? Are you creating your reports by going C# into Excel? O.o

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        2 days ago

        If it was color-coded, it would almost certainly not be referred to as a rainbow.

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      Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I’m defragging my harddrive.