{"id":64683,"date":"2026-04-07T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/?p=64683"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:11:07","slug":"6-excel-habits-i-had-to-unlearn-to-get-good-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/6-excel-habits-i-had-to-unlearn-to-get-good-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;6 Excel habits I had to unlearn to get good at it&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>6 Excel habits I had to unlearn to get good at it<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/excel-habits-to-unlearn\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/excel-habits-to-unlearn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Holding onto merged cells<br \/>\nPretty sheets aren\u2019t worth broken filters and sorting<\/li>\n<li>Keeping everything on one sheet<br \/>\nTabs exist for a reason<\/li>\n<li>Burying my assumptions<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s important, it deserves its own cell<\/li>\n<li>Writing unreadable formulas<br \/>\nClear formulas beat impressive ones every time<\/li>\n<li>Overusing volatile functions<br \/>\nA slow spreadsheet is a frustrating spreadsheet<\/li>\n<li>Ignoring documentation and version history<br \/>\nGood spreadsheets explain themselves<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 Excel habits I had to unlearn to get good at it https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/excel-habits-to-unlearn\/ Holding onto merged cells Pretty sheets aren\u2019t worth broken filters and sorting Keeping everything on one sheet Tabs exist for a reason Burying my assumptions If it&#8217;s important, it deserves its own cell Writing unreadable formulas Clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel","category-office"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 16:42:19","action":"delete","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hlrnet.com\/technoblog\/inicio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}