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You are imaginative and smart. You can pickup clues and construct the right image. Given a tutorial on “finding the second largest number in a list” you already know what to do for “third smallest number”.

You are savvy and sensible. You keep up with technology and changing practices without going nuts. You like to gather your ideas for better dashboards, formulas or charts from more than one place and process all that in your mind to do your job better. You also adopt quickly when you see a better way to do something.

You have fabulous sense of humor. You are too fun to take yourself too seriously.

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My name is Chandoo. Thanks for dropping by. My mission is to make you awesome in Excel & your work. I live in Wellington, New Zealand. When I am not F9ing my formulas, I cycle, cook or play lego with my kids. Know more about me.

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