"My number one tip for office workers is to believe that there is a better way. Whenever you find, 'Oh god, I've been copying and pasting this for the last 10 minutes, and I still have 15 minutes to go,' whenever you find yourself doing something that is manual and repetitive, it is very likely that Excel has a better way to do it."
"In my experience, 80% of the things I've ever struggled with in Excel, if I Google it with a reasonably crisp description, there's a post out there somewhere saying how to do it. Learning to use the SUMIFS function is probably going to take you longer the first time than just doing it yourself. But it's going to be a little bit faster the second time, a lot faster the third"
Diarmuid Early won the 2025 Microsoft Excel World Championship and has roughly 20 years of Excel experience, including roles at Boston Consulting Group and Deutsche Bank before founding an Excel advising firm. Winning the championship followed multiple deep runs, including final stages in Las Vegas. His primary office tip is to assume there is a better way and to replace manual, repetitive copying with built-in Excel functions or automation. He recommends searching resources like Google or ChatGPT because many common Excel problems already have solutions online. Learning functions such as SUMIFS yields large time savings after initial investment.
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