And if you’re on your way to becoming a pivot table genius, there are Pivot Table Tutorials on the Contextures website.

Big Dose of Wake-up

• I just added up all of my student and law school loans in an Excel spreadsheet. That’s a big dose of wake-up that coffee won’t give you.
• We just spent 20 mins of my 60 min class with the tech unsaavy prof trying to get students to download an excel spreadsheet. Idiots.
• I think my 6.0 gps is about to take nose dive – am about to fail a statistics exam! No amount of positive thinking will get excel to work
• thinks USM should have included more classes in parsing and abusing Excel files and XML files.

Pivotless Pivot

• Check out this Pivot-table-less PowerPivot report. @powerpivotpro says even Excel pros will be stumped! http://bit.ly/6IjmJi
• As good as the reporting tools in some web apps have become, they are still no match for a good old pivot table.
• Pretty sure… I’m an excel genius! My pivot table is a work of art! FML that this is what I’m excited about in life.

Macro Policy

• A little bailing wire and my duct taped VBA code that gets a MS Project file from a URL exports to excel & imports into access will be done!
• I hate that Excel 2007 policy about macros. I’m the developer, I know what I’m doing. Disabling all macros is just stupid.

It’s a Science

• No, Excel, I in fact do NOT want that ISBN in scientific notation. Thanks though. #workingatthelibrary #fb
• These people are allowing me to do stuff with scientific numbers and Excel spreadsheets… why?

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Pivot This Mess

• I will forever remember this day, for a few moments ago I realized the importance and use of Pivot Tables in Excel.
• I would recommend using a pivot table first. Pivot tables rule the Excel world! 8^)
• Working on my Romantic Comedies list… I need a spreadsheet and possibly a pivot table for this mess.
• Excel fun: run macros, watch screen flash like crazy, hit refresh button to see pivot tables and graphs update. It’s like magic! But not…

Sounds Bad

• Excel, is it really necessary to make 3 different noises when i try to save and close a CSV file? urgh
• aaand down goes Excel. Boom.
• a form asked me for the duration of a project, i put in "3-6" and i nearly sent it off with Excel having substituted that with 39878
• My Excel spreadsheet just suffered a minor loss of fidelity. I have no idea what this means, but I am saddened for it.

Scary Stuff

• Excel spreadsheets are the technological equivalent of the cockroach – http://bit.ly/53BdZ2
• The future isn’t going to be designed on an Excel spreadsheet. (via Paul Bennett/IDEO , http://bit.ly/6Ok5Ri )
• daily dose of Excel…that scared and turned me on at the same time.

And Finally

• Can someone please tell me how to switch from StupidView to Classic View in new Excel?

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P.S. For help with Excel pivot tables, see Excel Pivot Tables Blog

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Pivot Table Genius

• Exercising my Excel nerd muscles: 15K rows, 73 columns, 2 pivot tables, and a vlookup function all in one spreadsheet.
• my wife is a pivot table genius! Now she has transfered her knowledge and I am a dangerous pivot table apprentice – bwahhahahaha
• excel, i take back everything bad i ever said about you… this pivot table you just did is amazing
• Those who cannot do a pivot table properly within 5 minutes must eat a bowl of worms! While hanging upside down. From a helicopter.

Crappy Old Excel

• How did "unhide all sheets" not make the cut into Excel 2007?
• Seriously – £5k to upgrade to excel 07? What are you going to turn my computer into ‘Short-Circuit’; actually that would be ace – do it!
• Okay Excel, it’s almost 2010. Are you going to give me more than 40 choices for font and fill colours?
• Best get off to work, I have to work out how to manipulate more records than my crappy old Excel 2003 can handle

People Are Idiots

• asked a coworker to send a spreadsheet i’m supposed to work on, and he sent a screenshot of the excel screen instead of sending the file.
• People at my work are idiots. There I said it. Excel has filters it’s really not that difficult to check info on a spreadsheet
• Spending the morning redoing a coworker’s project instead of doing my own work. She couldn’t tell the difference between Word and Excel.
• anyone want to go to work for me tomorrow & tell them that i didnt save the excel spreadsheet i spent all day doing yesterday, am an idiot
• A work colleague in an IT management position above me just asked me ‘how do you sort in Excel’. A bit worrying I know!

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P.S. You can be a pivot table genius too, if you read the Pivot Table FAQs

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A Good Pivot Table

• Excel and pivot tables were created by someone with a deep-rooted hatred for people.
• It’s been three days, and I’m still glowing because people called my pivot table beautiful and professional. #dorktastic
• The only thing missing from my day is a good pivot table. Fingers crossed.
• Showing people pivot tables on excel is so fun. Seriously. The joy they get when they realize how easy life can be now is gratifying.
• is becoming a pivot table expert in preparations for Monday.

Compulsive Savers

• No freaking way to undo beyond a save in Excel??? Hating Microsoft software with a passion. Begging for Numbers.
• Remind me again.Why does Excel say sure you want to close without saving. Oh yeah, it’s so I can say no and loose all the work ive done
• Ugh. Excel just crashed 30 min worth of work…good thing I’m a compulsive saver or it could have been more…

Question of the Day

• Ever get the feeling that life’s just one big excel spreadsheet after another?

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P.S. If you want to save your Excel file with VBA, try the code in Jon Peltier’s article today: Robust VBA Save-As Technique

Or, follow Jon’s advice in the comments below:  “If you want to autosave your files to prevent losing too much data in case of a crash, don’t use the built-in autosave feature. Instead use Jan Karel Pieterse’s AutoSafe utility. It is much friendlier, and it doesn’t overwrite the current file, it instead saves a copy. AutoSafe it about the 4th item on this page: http://www.jkp-ads.com/download.asp

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