Happy Canada Day! Not too many Excel related tweets yesterday, so I guess everyone is out celebrating. more work in excel 2010. ribbon is starting to grow on me. downgraded from eye cancel to conjunctivitis. the rest of program is very spiffy Really great way to add a quick comparison chart to a worksheet seen [...]

Was your Excel day full of bathroom colours, drab charts, angry fruit salad and stapler fights, like these tweeters? Maybe your day was better, with fabulous pivot tables and formula problems solved. Undo can save the day too, if you remember to use it in time, and it would be nice to hear some cheering [...]

Bill Gates recently created a Twitter account, and attracted thousands of followers in a very short time. Some of those followers hope that he’ll help with their Excel problems. Maybe he can help with those features that don’t work exactly the way that we’d like. Hello Bill Gates @billgates Taking a class on Excel 2007 [...]

Excel helps you stay organized, and you can even help other people with their stuff. Just be careful that you don’t lose everything that you entered. Your wedding could be ruined! And if you’re trying to make a timeline in Excel there are instructions here for an Excel Gantt Chart. Excel Time Design an excel [...]

It’s pretty cold here this week, so that Palm Springs Film Festival sure sounds tempting. But I’ll probably just stay inside and watch The Simpsons. But wherever I am, I definitely won’t be smoking! What We’re Watching curling up in bed attempting to finish up these excel documents…$10 says I lose interest in the next [...]

Some people use Excel for simple things, like a shopping list, or a bit of homework. Other people are more ambitious, and spend their days analyzing data. It’s funny though – the shopping list people seem happier than the analysts. But either of those activities is better than helping your dad with his Excel problems. [...]

It’s Black Friday in the USA. In Canada, our closest equivalent shopping experience is Boxing Day, on December 26th. We buy piles of half-priced Christmas cards, wrapping paper, and ornaments, then store them away. By next Christmas, we can’t remember where they are, so we go out and buy new stuff. Very economical. Anyway, here [...]