Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Monday, December 12, 2005

Math On Demand (Office 12 Coolness, Part 4)

New features with Excel 12 ...

"Here's a neat time-saver in Excel 12. Let's say that you have some numbers somewhere in the Excel grid, in this case monthly sales figures for the branches of a store:

Excel 12 Grid. - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Excel 12 Grid.


Now, let's say I wanted to quickly find out the average or total sales for some or all of my store branches. In Excel 12, I simply multi-select the sales figures of the store branches to compare and look down in the status bar at the bottom of the screen:

Excel 12 Matches - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

Excel 12 Matches.



As I select numbers in the grid, the status bar automatically updates with the most commonly computed simple formulas. The status bar can display Average, Count, Numerical Count, Minimum, Maximum, and Sum".(Via Jensen Harris)

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