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Some important lessons in today’s Excel tweets – save your work frequently, don’t delete your tax files before you submit them, and Excel is more important than showering.
- everyone else here @ starbucks is working on excel spreadsheets. i’m writing erotika. i think im out of place.
- Just got sent an Excel spreadsheet with the instructions "Can you please password protect this document and send it back to me?". Um. Okay.
- I am *always* too muddled to open an excel spreadsheet
- Made it to Uni today. Got a day of SPSS – possibly the hardest software ever made, it’s like Microsoft Excel with Autism.
- Prefers when excel crashes *before* putting an hour worth of work into it
- Expanding to 96 teams (however it’s done) will DESTROY my perfectly-fashioned March Madness Excel spreadsheet! I vote NO!
- I don’t like Excel, it’s too hard, why stupid formulas & stuff i don’t get it! maybe i should have got the excel for dummies book
- I need someone to teach me how to use excel properly
- I’m doing credit card rewards/cash back analysis in MS Excel.. fun fun fun at 6 a.m. !
- Another good one – "I’m having trouble opening an Excel spreadsheet", "do you have Excel?", "…………….no"
- This is stupid,why are we learning how to work Excel, this middle school
- Damn it, Excel. Maybe I WANT my formula to create a circular reference. JUST DO IT.
- My latest blog post on integrating #cucumber with Excel can be found here: http://bit.ly/bQtGJV
- omg, i just accidentally closed my excel file and then saved itmonths of work lost. why cant I undo a save.. Im dead
- Deleted my taxes Excel workbook for 2009 before sending it out. Oops. Let’s see if one of these 3 undelete apps will find it – in FileVault.
- getting acquainted with Excel… must complete this assignment tonight to get excel back out of my life.
- Change view to "Normal" not "Page View" in options. Exit excel and relaunch. Problem with Page View uber slowness.
- OH. GO ME. Just finished Excel Homework for Stats… on to the book work. I’ll shower tomorrow.
- Excel course took a nose-dive before lunch – do not tackle IFs ORs and ANDs on an empty stomach.
- it’s only truely hardcore if you use a pivot table…
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That course with chocolate, creative writing and Excel sounds great! Oh, never mind, it’s three separate courses. Maybe I’ll try to find a job that’s serves free alcohol instead, and turn my Excel sheets into Spanish or Chinese.
- I am awesome. I AM THE MASTER OF EXCEL! Epic spreadsheet of epic #sxsw bands we want to see. Over 100 shows all nicely organized. *EXCITED*
- Laugh if you will about my Excel models for everything. Super handy for party planning. True test will be FC vs actual of course #BigFourOH
- I had to go *buy a book* on Excel charts to figure out how to do things I’d known how to do for more than a decade.
- microsoft excel does some cool stuff, but i have had enough fun today
- found some cool Excel Add-in tools for exporting Charts as graphics at http://bit.ly/9UirUS and http://bit.ly/cGiD4a
- I tried to create an Excel form. It was a disaster. I hate math. Free lunch if you can help.
- Microsoft confirmed today that a security update for its Excel spreadsheet had turned English text … into Chinese http://ping.fm/bQs2W
- 46 inches of excel fury http://twitpic.com/18hw7q
- I used to work in call centre in IT sales & we used to get some great ones. "What’s the upgrade path from Excel to Win98?"
- maybe an Excel bug is why Westin is chopping ABC News jobs on an economic upswing @chucktodd
- Building excel sheets is like pleasing a woman, easy to start impossible to finish
- I can give you some ten year olds that know how to use excel!
- one EXCEL, to rule them all!
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- Is there an on-line tutorial or something that can help me operate Microsoft Excel?
- The truth, via Excel: http://tinyurl.com/yfscjbt
- Bustin’ out mah mad Excel skillz to make graph of opium imports in 19th C. China. Oh, yeah. That’s how I roll.
- Arlington Community Ed: Chocolate tasting, creative writing & Excel: Courses will include in-class writing .. http://bit.ly/94HuAK
- So my mom calls me to go over an excel thing I’m doing for her and then tells me to hold on while she listens to the radio. ?????????
- If Excel Were a Car… The help line would be staffed by people who know less about your car than you do! #ohsotrue
- I hate when they serve free alchohol at the job. I can never resist my Excel sheets turn into Spanish. Took me 30 min to tweet this, haha!
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What makes you crazy in Excel? Formulas that show different results for “identical” data? Bubble charts? Excel 2007? Pie charts? Shades of puce? So many possibilities, so little time.
- Just got to work…I will now proceed to put x’s in various Excel spreadsheet cells for the next three hours. Get to leave at 12 though
- I swear Excel is trying to kill me. Identical data, one spreadsheet counts 46, the other counts 50. Aaaargh! I’m melting!
- Struggling with a IF THEN ELSE in Excel … How the brain can fade when not used for a while !!!
- At least she has 2 names. If u write Madonna in excel sheet- do u put it in 1st or last name column..either way messes w/ the SORT
- I’m thinking about making the jump to Excel 2007 from 2003 at work. Finally starting to be more painful to use 2003 due to others using 2007
- Learned something new: 1st step in creating a correct chart in excel: put the data on the right axes. This would save so much time. T_T
- Whoa. Excel genius at work just blew my mind making a graph using bubbles. Everything looks like the solar system. Magic.
- Colleague points to his screen & shows me that the cursor in Excel moving along the screen. I point to the folder resting on his space bar.
- Uh-oh – I conquered Mount Excel & built the amazing spreadsheet, but it’s so awesome it can’t get enough juice to run. That sucks!
- Could be worse, they could be deciding which shade of puce means really nearly really done in an excel spreadsheet
- my manager dont even knw how to work on excel…dat is basic ….gawwd
- thanks to MS excel now i wait for the words to auto complete in… notepad!! #sigh
- Just managed to "break excel"… from the mouth of our spreadsheet guru! I’m quite proud of that! Jeremy 1, Microsoft 0!
- Guy nearby calling help desk about how excel changed his column headings from letters to numbers is God’s way of telling me to go home.
- I DID IT! Finally my life has meaning. I’ve created the most beatiful and functional Excel Spreadsheet EVER!!! I can rest in peace.
- These are all in Excel 2003 format, because Excel 2007 is a hideous monstrosity that should have been strangled at birth.
- nerd alert: i just made an excel spreadsheet of movies i’ve seen so far this year, complete with ratings.
- Boss called today, ecstatic, proclaiming I had ‘a job for life’ after doing an ok job at a simple excel spreadsheet. Why bother with uni?
- Excel just recovered a spreadsheet last saved the 1st of January 1601 at 00:00:01. That’s efficiency!
- If you stare too long into the Excel, the Excel will stare back into you. Insanity is but a pie chart away.
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Be careful Kelly Rose! Just because you meet guys in the library, doesn’t mean they should be trusted, especially if they’re buying spreadsheets. It might be safer to stay home and work on Excel knitting charts.
- Just made a chart in Excel for the 1st time since who knows when, line graph, resisted going 3D…. I don’t think it’s telling me much
- FYI… Claiming work can be done quicker in excel than in Silverlight in no way makes me want to work harder or faster to complete a task.
- Ummm love that some 40 year old guy just walked up to kelly rose & I in the lib & paid us $60 to make an excel spreadsheet for him.
- wow… I need to be more proficient with excel… lol making a poker spreadsheet for places and points, and i’m gettin my butt kicked…
- Not sure I can face looking at excel spreadsheets all day today. 4274 rows is just tooo big to work with.
- I want to offer a giant THANK YOU to all the Excel nerds who post things online. Trolling sites by MVPs just helped me solve a big problem.
- I hate excel like Lindsey Lohan hates eTrade right now.
- Back to Excel and Powerpoint… maybe I should have stayed at work to get this done. Productivity levels at home are considerably lower.
- Thank you all for the sympathy. 14 straight hrs of financial databases and excel spreadsheets is pretty damn painful. Tmw will be better.
- blindly offered to help with a spreadsheet. its 46,608 rows of data that looks like it was barfed into an excel file. [sigh]
- finished with excel for the day and my brain is still in one piece
- Managed to waste an hour fiddling around with the functions on Excel instead of doing work. Oh how I love to procrastinate
- sick of number rounding problems. java and ms excel are enemies. i’m the negotiator.
- Just used an excel spreadsheet to calculate wether or not I can afford everything I want on Topshop.com. It came to 1285.00. So that’s a no.
- Good hair day, sunshine abounds, listening to music while I try to dominate this excel speadsheet… 3 out of 4 is pretty great!
- Redoing knitting charts in excel. More fun than it sounds. Or maybe I’m just THAT bored
- I’ve pretty much been useless at work tonight. Can’t seem to fix anyones problems. Then again they all seem to be centered around Excel.
- My ME coworker is baffled by MS Excel. Hes been instructed to use a quote mark for direct entry; he’s unclear: "is that like an apostrophe?"
- Just doubled my mouse pointer speed. Excel isn’t gonna know what’s hit it.
- Off the station – Another day another Dollar. On that exchange rate, an Excel spreadsheet is worth about 5 cents!
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You knew it would happen – Excel 2007 has a million rows, and now people want 2 million. Meanwhile, the 6th graders are playing Excel battleship, and learning about those bad variable names. If you’d like to play too, my friend Andrew Engwirda has a free version of Excel Battleship that you can download.
- i made an excel spreadsheet for all the countries i have coins from. i’m very organized and i like it.
- lets all be sophisticated adults and spend the evening at starbucks with our laptops out and type numbers into microsoft excel
- Can’t look at inappropriate websites at work. That’s when I’m thankful that my biggest turn-on is Excel spreadsheets in Arial 10pt. font.
- #learnsomethingeveryday You can do GANTT charts with Excel. Impressed. No idea HOW but I hear it can be done.
- poor use of excel really irritates me. what’s up with skipping rows? do you even know why you’re using a spreadsheet? ergh!
- Kids ask me all the time. How can I make it in this biz? My answer? Learn how to use Excel… Seriously.
- I’ve got an Excel spreadsheet THIS BIG, and it’s got "pain in my ass" written all over it.
- Staring at a pile of paperwork, while an Excel spreadsheet tries to sneak up on me. Good morning!
- http://twitpic.com/17q7az – Apparently my pivot table/chart shenanigans was just too much for poor old Excel
- Spreadsheet activities with 6th grade today – Excel Battleship to review cell naming, cell formatting & using multiple sheets.
- So I’ll be spending the rest of the day and likely part of tomorrow running queries and exporting results to Excel. Hooray for audiobooks!
- Access, why can’t you be more like your brother Excel?!
- excel graph render yet? Have frequently gotten coffee myself so my pivot had time alone to think…
- My needs have apparently surpassed what a spreadsheet is capable of! Never! I will make excel do even this! *gets wizard hat*
- protip: dont put your save button next to your undo button in excel
- Dear Microsoft: Now I need TWO millions lines per worksheet. When is Excel 2011 hitting the market? #pleaseandthankyou
- Thanks to magical Excel training, I can now make the FANCIEST of charts and/or graphs. Delicious.
- turn off auto-save. A lot of times when i work in big spreadsheets excel gets hosed by the auto-save constantly running
- Important rule for work: never be more than 1 alt-tab from an excel spreadsheet
- An excel sheet is nothing but a list of equations, with bad variable names. Never thought of it that way.
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Those computer games disguised as Excel sound fun, but it’s hard enough to get your work done, without those kinds of distraction. And now I have to go and find a jar that I can put on my desk, for people to drop in their tips.
- Things i dont enjoy- meetings, excel sheets and meetings with excel sheets!
- Thought I was gonna get some work done tonight so I didn’t have to do it tomorrow. Turns out I sent myself the wrong excel sheets. #heated
- I’m almost done with my undergrad career, and I still can’t make a chart in excel correctly.
- this dude leading my Excel training class is so animated.. I feel like I’m in a game show.
- I could use a day without Excel. Kthx.
- MS Word may suck but Excel still rules. Just got reintroduced to the concept of pivot tables. Awesome tool that I need to pull out more.
- I just *love* meetings where people just read through an Excel spreadsheet (in Comic Sans). Thanks for killing my brain cell by cell.
- What a day! I "love" working in #excel and figuring out formulas. I doubt Jack Bauer had to deal with these kinds of headaches. #24
- Boss gave me an excel task worth 4 hours of work. Figured out a nifty shortcut that got me done in 10 mins LOL
- The dude sitting next to me in the lab has a super easy excel problem i wanna solve but i tried to talk to him earlier and he didnt like it
- There is a goal in my group at work to stump me in Microsoft word or excel. So far, no luck.
- It’s kind of funny when Excel crashes every time I try to save a workbook. You know, save frequently, in case it crashes. Yeah. Funny.
- Heh! Computer games disguised as Excel and Word prove a hit with office workers – Telegraph http://bit.ly/aCsWS3
- I’m so happy to have excel back on my pc. I {heart} text to columns functionality the most… #itsthelittlethings
- you could probably run the world on MS Excel if you knew how to. i’ve seen spreadsheets that could blow your mind!
- Sometimes, I am so helpful at work… I think I should put a tip jar on my desk. "Help with Excel, recommended $5 tip"
- Moment of truth: will project supervisor think my spreadsheet is pretty? Or will it assault her eyeballs like an Excel paintball war?
- God runs the Universe using a big Excel spreadsheet full of busted Macros and VBA written by the guy who was doing the job before him.
- just spent an hour coming up with a complex excel eq’n, then found the same results after a minute of dicking around with pivot tables
- But Numbers is a long way behind even old versions of Excel. No Pivot tables!!! The end of civilisation in my opinion!
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Didn’t we all have youthful dreams of spending our days in Excel? Or maybe that’s a result of the Norwegian work ethic (which I’d never heard of before). But if you’re struggling to create a clustered stacked chart, like today’s tweeter, there’s a link at the end of this post, that should help you.
- Got a new computer at work with excel 2007. 4 the first time in my life I am computer illiterate. Not good!
- Is it wrong that I think the iPad does nothing that I want it to? like, oh….word processing? Excel?
- I am becoming an Excel NINJA. I can now do things with charts you can only dream of.
- Considering cloning myself. After programming in Excel it can’t be that hard right?
- Poli Sci midterm grades are apparently up, but hosted in an Excel spreadsheet. Guess which program I deleted months ago?
- Durrrrr Excel, I didn’t want you to do exactly what I told you, I wanted you to solve my problem. Can’t you read between the lines?
- Feeling fulfilled. Ever since I was a little girl I remember saying that when I grew up all I wanted was to work in Excel M-F 8-5.
- So did I (my boss thinks I’m crazy for clapping at my "excel spreadsheet")
- I feel like I have been sucked in, swallowed and spat out by an excel spreadsheet this afternoon. Nice.
- Power just went out at work. I am so lucky I have a laptop & can continue working on this excel sheet, not the Internet. /sarcasm
- I just discovered pivot tables in Excel. It feels like I’ve been living under a rock.
- Gr, I hate Microsoft Excel. I couldn’t figure out how to make a bar graph. I’m going to paint.
- “Document not saved.” How about a little more information, Excel? >:(
- So it turns out that once your data grows to over 60mb in an excel 2007 book, everything takes a million years even with calc off #patience
- needs 2 get off twitter & fb & get back 2 that excel spreadsheet of tax info. get that done & then have fun. norwegian work ethic!
- My boss knew 2 brothers called Excel & Enter. Do they have sisters called Alt & Shift, and parents called Caps Lock & Delete?
- Dear Apple: why do none of the function keys work in Excel for Macs? When I hit F2, I do not want a brighter screen.
- Granted this is the same class where the professor(yes, he has a PhD) said that Excel and Access were both databases.
- Maybe not a stupid question, but this one makes me laugh whenever my students ask it: "Do companies really use Excel?"
- Ha! Excel 2007 I’ve found something you can’t do, a clustered stacked chart. Currently trying to figure this out by my head isn’t helping
- I wish I could respond the same way Excel responds to me every time someone disturbs me at work…#(Not Responding)
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These Excel tweets from the weekend show that even the hard working Excel users take a bit of time for fun and games occasionally. And I don’t know who the mystery man was, who suggested XY Chart Labeler, but it’s a free utility that every Excel user should download and install.
- Finally finished with the dog baths & nail clippings. Will spring clean a bit, then will work on that "Excel for Dummies" book.
- I spent the majority of my day tryig to figure out a problem in excel. This guy overhears the issue and goes: XY labeler. How did he know?
- Then turn on 2nd game. Or open up Excel and get writing some code for a true cost analysis. Make it concrete. Ladies go for that.
- cubeville btw, is not nearly as cute as farmville. There are no level 12 warrior pigs in cubeville. Just Excel spreadsheets & sales revenue.
- Waking up early to get some work done and having Excel crash 3 times. I think it wanted me to sleep in.
- I have successfully pruned the guestlist down from 50-odd to 29. I love Excel’s ‘delete row’ command!
- I have an Excel spreadsheet to chronicle every concert I’ve been to. I’m pretty certain that puts me in the running for biggest dork ever.
- Why yes, Excel, I’d love it if you bogged down my only burst of productivity on weeks by CRASHING EVERY FIVE MINUTES. How did you know?
- Usually I’m a fan of Apple products, but Numbers is just so lacking compared to Excel, it’s unbelievable.
- Is it me or does excel rarely assume the correct function when i drop data into a pivot table?
- Consolidating all of my MBA career-reflection excercises into one spreadsheet. Made some interesting connections. Gotta love Excel.
- MS Excel rounds it to 162.8 so it’s probably 162.9. Mind you, when you are married the wife is always right so you decide.
- *rolls a 9 sided dice* (also known as generating a random number in excel)
- I’m comparing pre-pay cards. Seems you pay a one-off fee, or regular fees, or per purchase, or or or or… may have to make a pivot table!
- Built an excel spreadsheet for computing the full costs of a nanny share (and compare them). I’m a geek, but now she loves me for that sheet
- Gotta get out of bed to go see Alice in Wonderland then somehow complete my Excel homework by tonight.
- I got my Excel certification back in high school, even. I get to color code, and make graphs, and eee, yes. I love it.
- Looking for someone who is an excel expert who can write a simple (or maybe complicated?) macro
- Your copy of Excel should not say "non-commercial use" when presenting at a biz networking event.
- Okay, so I’ve got an essay, a presentation, and an excel project to work on, but by God this Halo isn’t going to play itself.
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Apparently one tweeter didn’t like the pivot table presentation at Ignite Minneapolis. I’d never heard of that event before, but if they include pivot tables, it must be good! Now I have to go and try to straighten my fingers.
- I have all this fancy software, and I always end up using Excel for everything.
- our dependence on excel and calculators is astonising….an outdated thing called brain doesnt work at all now
- Ok my computer teach turned out pretty cool. She might not know how to work excel but she’s giving me credit for my wrong asnwers on my test
- Aside from the pivot table guy, I’ve had a smile on my face the entire time. #ignitempls
- nice cruise around lake minnetonka to escape work and the almighty excel-spreadsheet-land i’ve been living in all day
- as an english major, i never expected to use excel this much. i could use a course in it.
- I haz mad excel skills. By which I mean I can make simple formulae. Actually have mediocre excel skills. (Nobody tell my boss)
- today i have tweeted, facebooked, phones, texted and skyped, oh and Imd. TODAY I am all about communication (OR avoiding excel spreadsheet)!
- My goal is to LOOK busy! *opens up excel spreadsheet with lots of different colors*
- in case you were wondering. the bathroom is not an appropriate place to be talking about your excel spreadsheet.
- Spring break option #1: 120-hour, caffeine fueled, currency trading bender w/ 4 monitors, 3 computers and countless charts and excel windows
- Hmmm I think I’ve beaten Excel into submission, though not sure I’ve retained data accuracy… time for lunch!
- using somebody’s excle is REALLY pain. especially when it is customer’s excel and they do not allow us to customise..and macro!
- The Lions gave Burleson $11M. According to this sophisticated Excel spreadsheet, that’s $3.6M per TD he scored. Bargain!
- sometimes it’s cathartic to empty your brain into excel
- Oh Microsoft…that little "x" that you decided to add to your new Excel spreadsheet file type caused me hours of unneeded frustration.
- Sometimes I imagine what it would be like if Excel did all the good stuff it does, but also didn’t piss me off all the time
- Did I really just get in a fight over an excel sheet? God I’m a dork. Off to shove myself into a locker.
- been working on an excel spreadsheet literally for 7 hours. i can no longer straighten my fingers.
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Yes, I’ve absent-mindedly tried to copy and paste from Excel to a piece and paper, just like today’s Excel tweeter. It didn’t work for me either.
- i’m going to pass out if i dont start some excel work…
- Excel is a curiously terrible program. Simple things like putting a title on a chart’s legend require a degree in h4xx0rzing to accomplish.
- Autoshapes is the most underrated feature of MS Word and Excel
- Oh, gross, I just accidentally opened Excel.
- Silly me: Just tried to copy sth from Excel to a handwritten note w/cmd+c and cmd+v. It did not work!
- Am I the only one that uses Excel to chart hypothetical revenue IF such-and-such happens or IF you make such-and-such sales per month?
- I fell asleep at 4, meant to get up at 5, just woke up at 9 and haven’t even started my excel sheet. do the math
- really? You’re in a deep enough science class to require excel? Cool!
- Getting the hang of Excel. Not too good w/using SIN, COS or TAN functions tho. But maybe that’s b/c I was never good w/those to begin with.
- i hate when people make/keep garbage excel sheets. a little formatting and word wrap can do wonders for presentation and understandability.
- When you stare into an Excel spreadsheet long enough you start to see little colonies of people growing in each cell. #fb
- Teaching Excel is tiring.
- Working out the VBA to create multiple charts. You’d think this is the kind of capability Excel would have out of the box.
- same thing I reckon. We’ve only called them charts since excel came along. There are no graphs in excel.
- You know the job’s urgent when… the Art Director is using Excel to chart up stuff.
- Worked out how to calculate the straightline distance between two points on the earth’s surface using Excel. For 24,500 separate points!
- Idly wondering how many person-hours have been lost over the years to dealing with Excel’s stripping of leading ‘0’s from zipcodes
- Figured out how to make a budget spreadsheet in Excel. Now if only I had an income. *looks at GMail box for job replies*
- You know you use excel too much when you press the = button before you put the numbers in on a calculator
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