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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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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Follow the steps in this short Excel video tutorial to copy the code.

For detailed instructions please read the article Excel VBA – Adding Code to a Workbook

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