In the past, I highly recommended the Excel newsgroups as a place to go for help. Earlier this month, Microsoft shut down their newsgroup servers, where thousands of people every month had gone to post their Excel questions. Over the past several years, I spent lots of time in those newsgroups, reading and answering [...]

Be careful Kelly Rose! Just because you meet guys in the library, doesn’t mean they should be trusted, especially if they’re buying spreadsheets. It might be safer to stay home and work on Excel knitting charts. Just made a chart in Excel for the 1st time since who knows when, line graph, resisted going 3D…. [...]

Finally, it’s Christmas Eve, and all the shopping is done, presents are wrapped, and complicated toys are assembled. Time for you to curl up with a nice Excel spreadsheet, play a few games, and relax by the crackling fire. Merry Christmas! Excel Games For those interested, MS Excel 95 had a code embedded in it [...]

Geez, school was much tougher a hundred years ago, when I was in class. We didn’t watch movies and bake cookies! And of course, Excel hadn’t been invented yet, so there were no Excel classes either. I did take a typing class though, and that has been more helpful in my career than I would [...]

Time for some fun and games with Excel! It’s too bad that everyone doesn’t share our Excellent sense of humour. Fun An hour and a half of fun with Excel to correct a simple sort mistake. Good learning experience, though. I have a tendency to make Excel charts for things that do not need Excel [...]

It’s the season of joy and goodwill, but there’s still the odd pocket of hate for Excel. Some people feel the love though, and most of them add nice smileys at the end of their tweets. Santa might add those Excel haters to his naughty list, if they’re not careful. Don’t let that happen to [...]

Running out of blue? That’s never happened to me, but you never know what problems other people are having. And Excel wasn’t invented in time for my liberal arts education, but students today could benefit from a class or two. Even those broadcast journalism majors! Out of Sorts I patiently explain to him that excel [...]