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 you minimized twitter it wouldn’t say twitter on the tab, i wish it said, excel file324 then it would be easier to leave it up
• What’s happening? I’ll tell you what is happening, Twitter. Excel is being a whiny, useless, stupid bitch, that’s what’s happening.
• i honestly should be nose deep in excel and word and surrounded by data… but twitter is so damn great.

Need More Money

• Wondering where your money is going? Start entering and categorizing ALL of your receipts into an Excel spreadsheet. Try it for 3 months.
• Created an excel spreadsheet so I could make a budget for my Europe trip in may… I need to find another income! Soo poor!
• Organizing my cash flow and expenses, I would hire an accountant but according to this excel spreadsheet I need to make some more money LOL
• thank you personalized, color coated, google doc excel thing for making my $ issues appear to not be as sucky as they feel.

A Little Misty

• How goes the novel? my stepdad asked once, while visiting. I showed him the daily excel wordcount chart: exactly like that line, I said.
• My son just came in and said, "Dad, I’d like to know how to use an Excel spreadsheet." I’m not going to lie…I got a little misty.
• Have a date with mom & dad this Sunday to work out budget for myself. There’s going to be Excel docs & everything. Why am I excited? Sick.

A New Record

• Wow…this is an amazing…I haven’t touched Spreadsheet in 2010…..12 days and no excel-mania…

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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. Only one line of code is too short for my imagination!
• I spent the last hour + on a 310 char excel formula, possibly the best i have ever written. #loveWhenICanAutomate
• It’s "act like an Excel magician" day for me at work. If() is the most powerful command in Excel. IfError() is also nice.

Still Confused

• can get really snarky at the way Excel’s use of the Windows clipboard is unilke that of any other app. Cut, copy, paste – standards, no?
• Filling up excel sheet and reports always always creates goosebumps for me. I hate these things
• Thinking that Excel Services is more about cutting / pasting from multiple to one spreadsheet rather than any SharePoint skill…
• i have been staring at the same excel spreadsheet for the past 8 hours.. and i am still confused.

The Excel Diet

• Going back on "poor girls weight watchers" which includes a personally-made excel sheet and bootleg WW sites to find points
• right have printed myself an excel diet progress chart lol…have got to get back on the wagon!!!

All About Size

• Oh dear me. I just made this comment: "I’m all about size." I swear I was referring to a 7 MB excel spreadsheet I was working on.

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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 seriously making an excel spreadsheet for food shopping… She’s as much of a dork as I am!
• Last year tried to build a lunch cooking spreadsheet, with critical path analysis. Alas my Excel skills were too rusty.

Food For Thought

• An Excel spreadsheet can be anything you want it to be…

Board Games

• I have tetris in an Excel spreadsheet! that’s my idea of a good game *g*
• Just spent 30 minutes making a Pacman ghost in Excel. I am so cool.
• Am I a nerd if I use an excel sheet to add points while playing board games??
• What was the Bowl Challenge Update done in, Excel 88??
• Is such a geek. I’m creating an excel spreadsheet to graph the cost of going snowboarding at PknPk vs. Holiday Valley over time. lol

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P.S. Of course Excel and food planning go together: Excel Dinner Planner

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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 better.

Greatest Hits

• On deck: Mos Def, Miike Snow & Monsters of Folk. This is my 2nd favorite part of crazy spreadsheeting days. 1st is the pure joy of Excel.
• Beach Boys Greatest Hits and excel spreadsheets….my kind of afternoon
• Bobbing my head to Jay-z, while writing a macro that will consoidate excel file into one big daddy file.
• modeling in excel while listening to old Anthrax….so satisfying.
• Spending some quality time with Excel and the Bladerunner soundtrack. I love my job.
• CHRISTMAS STATION ON PANDORA!!! You are making me not hate this excel workbook, like, at all.

Aging Gracefully

• Also geeky> Counting the days I’ve gone working happily without opening Word or Excel, (excluding reading docs others send me) Tally: 26
• just remind yourself that Excel is nearly 25 years old. And looks like an aged Hollywood starlet after too many facelifts.
• Documenting my extremely ugly Excel-based build system. One year old code is not beautiful to look at again! #uglyhack
• Updating my seven-year-old Excel file with my latest work experience. It’s a bittersweet spreadsheet. The jobs I loved couldn’t last.

What a Tool

• Ban Excel from all planning meetings. It’s a weapon, not a tool. Make people think and plan first – then add the numbers at the very end.
• is developin a best lottery numbers selection tool on the excel… started as simple but is turning into complicated program… it is workin
• Q: Why does everyone keep talking about Excel? Goble: It’s the tool many use, so they are designing tools round extracting from it
• Between a crap bug tracking tool and an unmaintained excel spreadsheet, i’m really unhappy with our bug reporting strategy…

All Good Things

• ah, yeah it’s tough to beat Excel. The only good thing Microsoft has created. And is systematically ruining.

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P.S. To create a playlist from your MP3 files you can download the free Excel Music Playlist Creator, by Dave Peterson.

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Kid Unfriendly

• My child is playing around with an Excel spreadsheet. I’ve corrupted her already.
• The wife and I put an Excel spreadsheet together yesterday to manage my various plugin projects. Man, I should have done this earlier.
• My mom now knows how to make her own excel spreadsheet. That was a challenge but to see her change columns is rewarding.
• Just created an excel spreadsheet for our DVDs categorized by "Kid Unfriendly" "Kids" "TV Series" and "Holiday." Does that make me anal?
• Husband put our entire life into excel. Hate the constraints of all those little lines and boxes! Sometimes a girl needs circles!

Playing Games

• really hate staying up all night working on excel project unable to play my games on facebook except for a few
• What can I do for the next 2 hours that looks like work but isn’t? Sudoku kind of looks like Excel… hmm… worth a shot.
• It’s crazy how seriously I’m taking iFarm. Excel and ROI calculations are involved. I will have a windmill before EOW.

Finish Your Homework

• has not yet started his stupid AEM 145 Excel Assignment yet because… 1. i don’t get it and 2. i don’t really wanna get it.
• I know I have to use it but I don’t like using Excel for accounting homework. I can make it look better when I do it by hand.
• excel ate my homework
• Poor person who borrowed my computer, the scratch paper on my desk shows me you did all of the math by hand for your Excel assignment!

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P.S. For your Excel entertainment needs, Andy Pope has an Excel Sudoku file that you can download, and there’s a DVD Collection Database template on my website.

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But either of those activities is better than helping your dad with his Excel problems. Unless, of course, your dad is a data analyst.

Analyze This

• Dear MS Excel, please play nice with MATLAB, I need you two for the data-analyzings!
• boycotting Que Publishing…1 of their books suggest to get data OUT of a database, IN to Excel so it is "easier" to analyze – Idiots!
• Has anyone used totaltesting.com or other remote excel skills test? I want to screen analysts for advanced excel skills. Thx.
• Arg. Stupid Macs not being able to do histograms in Excel. I’m trying to analysis the last 22,000 songs played on my favorite radio station
• anyone know how to use the data analysis tools in excel? Started my statistical reasoning in psychology class today.
• Going to be doing some trend analysis at work, I’m super nervous boss asked if I was pretty good with excel and bought my comp a license

Dear Dad

• Just given 50-year-old butcher dad first excel lesson.Told him how lucky he is being taught by a SQL coder.He just stared at me
• I just had a lesson from my Dad in credit cards and fancy excel tricks. Nice.
• another call from my dad wanting me to fix something in excel over the phone
• Creating a great Excel spreadsheet – another adult pleasure my childhood self would have scoffed at. My dad, data analyst, would be proud.

Christmas With Excel

• I can’t get a grasp of what gifts I have, what’s left to buy & who I’m leaving out accidentally. Clearly, it’s time for an Excel spreadsheet
• Glad for the Christmas baking Excel spreadsheet I made a few years ago. Calculates a shopping list with quty of ingredients for me!
• Yikes! My excel Christmas shopping document has disappeared! Poof!
• I have a excel spreadsheet, dating back to 2003, with details of all xmas presents I have bought by person with price and where I got them!

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P.S. For help with histograms, see Jon Peltier’s page on Histograms in Microsoft Excel. And if you need help planning Christmas, you can download my free Excel Christmas Planner.

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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 to create a clustered and stacked bar chart in Excel today – what a rigmarole.
• Anyone want the Balboa Turkey Trot results in an excel spreadsheet? Let me know. Just finished import.
• 2nd day in a proper job, I phoned dad for Excel help. He’s just emailed me for the same. We both feel the significance of this moment. #W2tF
• I am the Ric Flair of Word and Excel! And maybe the Al Snow of PowerPoint?!
• you’re talking to the girl who made EXCEL CHARTS to help get the items for the Tournesol for FFXII. You have a life, I don’t! XD

Continuing Education

• We’re going to be staring at an excel spreadsheet for the next hour in this class…it’s only been 20 mins and someone’s already asleep
• it’s shocking to me how many teachers don’t use/know Excel, it’s so powerful and useful (not to mention so old!)
• Today is the first day teaching excel to a group. Why did i have this stupid idea?

I Don’t Want to Know

• Satan will take the form of Excel spreadsheet cell G-14 today and refuse to assume the proper formatting.
• Overheard this in the elevator: "I’ve got a girlfriend and nothing to show for it but some phone calls and a couple of excel spreadsheets."

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P.S. I don’t have Turkey Trot results, but you can use this template for a Daily Walking Record.

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Even Tiger Woods was mentioned in the Excel tweets. That’s a sign that he’s becoming successful!

Sadly Lacking

• Sometimes, it is just easier to do something for clients than explain to them how to do it themselves. Especially in Excel.
• my boss at work is like an Excel Yoda, but taller, less green and sadly lacking in comedy speech defect.
• am trying to decipher what my boss did to the excel spreadsheet i’m supposed to update. heh.

My Bad

• Our professor just told us not to touch anything in the Excel sheet he posted. Apparently he’s unfamiliar with "Undo" and "Don’t Save".
• The farther in to this Excel course I get, the more I want to scream "Screw this!" and just be self-employed :/
• I should probably have gone over EXCEL a little earlier than 12 hrs before my physics lab final… My bad.
• Making a test using excel so every kid gets a different set of questions. CHEATERS!!!
• Time for assignment that’s due this Friday. Excel pivot table on North American mushrooms. Thrilling data mining exercise indeed.

Stage Names

• Thinking of taking a Tiger Woods-style stage name appropriate to consulting. Maybe Malcolm Excel? Or Slideshow Bob

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P.S. If Tiger Woods wants to organize his tee off times in Excel, he can use my sample workbook: Assign TeeOff Times

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