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View submission: #1319: Automation
Well I know this happens often for me. It's never about truly repetitive tasks. These obviously deserve to be automated.
It's more of a : I need to spend 45 minutes to format data in this spreadsheet manually. Or I write a need little VBA script to do it automatically. But will that take me more than the 45 minutes required? It's that balance...
Comment by dogdiarrhea at 22/07/2014 at 17:51 UTC
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Comment by CaptSpify_is_Awesome at 22/07/2014 at 20:10 UTC
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I've always had an issue with that mentality though. Usually, by automating, I'll learn something new, which will help me automate something else down the road, or at least broaden my knowledge.