You knew it would happen – Excel 2007 has a million rows, and now people want 2 million. Meanwhile, the 6th graders are playing Excel battleship, and learning about those bad variable names. If you’d like to play too, my friend Andrew Engwirda has a free version of Excel Battleship that you can download.

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Those computer games disguised as Excel sound fun, but it’s hard enough to get your work done, without those kinds of distraction. And now I have to go and find a jar that I can put on my desk, for people to drop in their tips.

Things i dont enjoy- meetings, excel sheets and meetings with [...]

Didn’t we all have youthful dreams of spending our days in Excel? Or maybe that’s a result of the Norwegian work ethic (which I’d never heard of before). But if you’re struggling to create a clustered stacked chart, like today’s tweeter, there’s a link at the end of this post, that should help you.

Got a [...]

These Excel tweets from the weekend show that even the hard working Excel users take a bit of time for fun and games occasionally. And I don’t know who the mystery man was, who suggested XY Chart Labeler, but it’s a free utility that every Excel user should download and install.

Finally finished with the dog [...]

Apparently one tweeter didn’t like the pivot table presentation at Ignite Minneapolis. I’d never heard of that event before, but if they include pivot tables, it must be good! Now I have to go and try to straighten my fingers.

I have all this fancy software, and I always end up using Excel for everything.
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Yes, I’ve absent-mindedly tried to copy and paste from Excel to a piece and paper, just like today’s Excel tweeter. It didn’t work for me either.

i’m going to pass out if i dont start some excel work…
Excel is a curiously terrible program. Simple things like putting a title on a chart’s legend require a [...]

Bad day in Excel twitters, with plenty of errors, swearing and drinking. Or maybe that’s just an average day. Anyway, how’s your day going?

It’s worrying how satisfying I am finding getting a macro to work in excel :s. Click, flashy screen, success, woo! #geek #tragic
Spent the last 20 minutes showing a guy I work [...]

Are fancy-dancy charts better or worse than professional looking charts? You should know the answer to that if you’re going to attract the ladies with your incredible Excel skills. But maybe the fashion designer who uses Excel will be impressed.

I’d like to conclude now that Excel is idiot proof. Unfortunately, most of the people in [...]

Yes, Italian food can definitely ease the pain induced by Excel hell. Maybe it would help with that swampy wallowing homework feeling too!

Looking at Excel toolbar, wondering how many years it will be until the Save icon is no longer a floppy disk. Haven’t use a floppy in years
Fine. You win excel. I will [...]

Hooray! It’s March, and that means we made it through another February. Over the weekend, Excel users were working in bed, watching F1 pre-season stuff, and complaining to Microsoft. Oh, and there might have been a bit of drinking, if you can count Peach Schnapps.
And we did an Excel Word Search on the Contextures blog [...]