Twitter is a great place to complain about Excel, or escape for a few minutes. If only it didn’t leave that tell-tale Twitter icon on the Windows Taskbar! And if you need help with your budget workbooks, there are a few examples on the Contextures Sample Excel Files page. Twitter is Great i wish when [...]

Excel is making some people feel powerful, while others are confused. Maybe their brains are starved from being on the New Year’s diets. But remember — size doesn’t matter! Activate the Neurons the MS Excel sumproduct function is powerful, and also confusing >:) Playing with Excel formulas, trying to activate the neurons that understand them. [...]

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the middle of the last week of the decade! Take a little time off for some food, fun and games, in Excel, of course. Sink Your Teeth Into It Breakfast at the diner, greenmarket, then back home to plot for the next year. This may involve excel. My wife is [...]

What kind of music do you listen to while you work in Excel? Today’s tweets show a wide variety of musical tastes, including Beach Boys, Anthrax and Jay-Z. And I agree with the tweet about old code – it’s rarely beautiful to revisit. You usually think of a dozen ways you could have done it [...]

Ah, the weekend. Relax and enjoy some time with your family, and Excel. You might have time to play some games, but if you have homework, don’t leave it till Sunday night – do it now! (I’m sure that I did all my homework on Saturday, way back when I was in school.) Kid Unfriendly [...]

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. [...]

Excel tweets are not only entertaining, they’re educational. For example, I thought rigmarole was correctly spelled rigamarole, but either spelling is accepted, at least in North America. And this batch of tweets had me googling for Balboa Turkey Trot, W2tF, Rick Flair, and FFXII. So little time, so much to learn! New Words I managed [...]

It’s Monday, so we’re back to work in Excel, complaining about our bosses, clients and homework assignments. That student might be in for a shock though, if he does become self-employed. Can he really avoid Excel? Even Tiger Woods was mentioned in the Excel tweets. That’s a sign that he’s becoming successful! Sadly Lacking Sometimes, [...]