Dr. Who villains and boozy Excel work — it must be the weekend! 14 years of programming experience and I’m tasked with building an excel spreadsheet …sheesh. #mindnumbing Excellent graph! -> Every Doctor Who villain since 1963 – as a spreadsheet and visualized guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/doL5qn #doctorwho Just an FYI. Excel files > 100 MB generally [...]

Stupidification? Do you really need Excel to help with that? I’m not surprised by that "Booze" category though. Killer feature in #Office2010 ? Excel Slicers! Not for everyone but brilliant for ppl that use pivot tables. Forms should not be created in Excel. Trying to enter this data is one of the more annoying things [...]

You must have to be young, to be "gangster". I can barely see the Excel sheet when it’s zoomed to 80%. OH: we have a google spreadsheet to keep track of who is the biggest jerk in the office. 1 point for a jerk out burst. So, Microsoft, my hard-won pivot table in Excel 2007 [...]

A better solution for preventing sharing nightmares? Don’t create shared workbooks. The end. Spreadsheet modeling has evolved into a medium for managerial Machiavellis – Michael Schrage haha… Next time don’t write that you have advanced excel skills in your resume… Dear Microsoft, your chart feature of Excel o’s awful. Please hire some Apple designers to [...]

If a master chef doesn’t like pivot tables, maybe he should just stick to pie charts. And remember, even though the football is over, football will be starting soon. trying to modify an existing Excel pivot table is making me stabby This morning I need cheerleading… and very strong coffee!! Transferring a year’s worth of [...]

It’s fine to have VLOOKUP and INDIRECT in the same Excel workbook. Not so sure about Metallica. Friends are mocking me for my color-coding, spreadsheet obsession. Is it wrong to be organized? :p My table-/chart-making utility for Excel gets a link on the Aific website: http://ow.ly/29yh8 Lots of other interesting software there. Had a scare [...]

Have you run into that Firefox problem, when trying to download from the Microsoft site? I can’t count the times it’s happened to me! What a day! 9am to 5pm in one place….all I saw were slides and excel sheets! It’s the one skill I kept from those days. Did you know you can add [...]

It must be the heat — Excel is making people cry, laugh, eat, pull teeth, and even talk to their parents. Now that’s a powerful program! Sometimes I believe most that "I’m a poet" when I am working on a spreadsheet. I’m having a high noon style standoff with an Excel spreadsheet full of numbers [...]

Do Mac users do any work? Are Google charts better than Excel charts? Is Excel really old-school? So many questions, and it’s too hot to think! Everyday without fail Excel crashes everything MS Office related on my work computer. Awesome. US Postal Service proposing new rates. Click the "stamp" to download an Excel spreadsheet (21 [...]

Yesterday, it was back to work after the holiday weekend, and there was a bit of whining and moaning in the Excel tweets. And I was on mega-fire too, but it was due to the soaring temperatures, not my Excel report-making skills. Today I learnt how to combine 2 charts together in excel http://bit.ly/cpigbm sigh. [...]