It’s 1:30 am and I’m switching 14637 tables from a horizontal format to vertical in ppt. Why the **** do people stay in consulting?

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...and why do you have 14k tables in ppt to begin with? WTF for?

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Preach!!! 🙌🙌🙌

1. Paste the ppt data and formatting into excel
2. Transpose them in excel
3. Paste the data back into the ppt tables
4. Go to sleep

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Yeah I shut off my laptop after my left eye started twitching from staring at excel since 8am this morning.

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Learn VBA. Pretty confident you could automate this.

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That’s easier than fixing already (inconsistently) created slides. But cool. I can think of many instances where that would come in handy.

Better question: why is this necessary? At a glance feels like a waste of both the firm's and the client's paid for time.

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Build a robot That would be an efficient consultant

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Doesn’t your company have some third party to do repetitive tasks like this?

Or just one software engineer with a few minutes to spare.

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There is literally a button for that, if you did it manually that’s on your for being stupid

Maybe proprietary D macro?

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