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Awesome — a boss with a sense of humour. That almost makes up for a lack of Excel skills. Of course, we can debate that, during yoga class.  

• not yet, ah i don’t even know how to use excel but i’ll attempt it tonight, is it hard?
• Only in my world does a quick Skype message to a friend before the end of work lead straight into nested IF functions in Excel *sigh*
• Why does excel take so long to calculate pivot tables??? #geektweet
• I make beautiful excel pie charts #justsaying. I’m copy righting the name Piecharto ©. In other news I’m hungry for some reason.
• This debate is just one long list of percentages. Like televising an Excel spreadsheet. #bland #yawn #senedd2011
• I just devoted 10m to embedding the War3 Orc "Work Done" wav into an excel macro. Yes, it was that important.
• I could’ve used Excel to do this entire 1.5 hour lecture’s work in 5 minutes.
• Boss: How do you do this thing on EXCEL? Me: Did you Google it? Boss: Did you Google how to file for unemployment? #SSG #WorkTweet
• Currently having one of those very rare moments I wish I knew how to use Excel to make charts and stuff. It would be helpful.
• I [heart] #excel macros. That is all.
• Welcome back to #excel hell. List lists everywhere and not a drop to drink.
• My boss can’t use Excel, nor locate a lost Outlook temp file, but yet is Director of I.T, how do I resolve this?
• Busy day at work = lack of tweets. #excel
• i know how to do the excel but 1 mistake ruined the whole workbook. =( unfortunately it ruined my grade too =’(
• Hmm, seems that I’ve arrived at work sans motivation. Maybe I’ll get some shortly once I’ve fiddled with excel.
• #Excel the only Microsoft program worth a darn. #truth
• Reports, excel charts, phones, email; all in my cubical. Do you ever feel more like a factory click-worker than a "knowledge worker"?
• Quote of the day "The problem with excel is you know you’re doing something incredibly boring if you even have to open it."
• Seems that I have my work brain on. Every time the yoga instructor said "exhale" I heard "Excel" #retired

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• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA
• Excel Functions

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That Barbie workbook was pink, I’m sure, and would probably make you feel queasy. At least the boss wasn’t working on that – her Excel file was blue!

• I just spent the past 30min w/my boss picking out a shade of blue to color her Excel spreadsheet. #thatkindofday
• They see their lives through screenshot eyes/ take courage with the pivot table’s final say / make choices when they sign on the dotted line
• Loving the fact my husband knows how to create graphs and charts using Excel and doing my extra credit assignment for me
• Messy excel files give me the creeps. Having to work with one makes me want to recoil. *shudder*
• oh lord…she want me to do excel……….
• Nothing can kill motivation faster than losing 2.5 hrs of work in excel because of a blue screen. Gonna keep fighting tho #DangerVsMonday
• Saddest thing of all: still not clear on the answer. Time to procrastinate with a pivot table or something.
• The thought of a spreadsheet makes me feel slightly queasy
• Nerd alert: organized all my monthly expenditures into a nice Excel document, complete with pie charts!
• still can’t believed i made a Microsoft Excel workbook for my barbies. INCREDIBLE ?(•??~•~)?
• if I had an "i <3 geeks" shirt I woold dedicate it to you and your awesome excel spreadsheet I am making one after work I think
• Last work day of the week, and my computer was pulled out for repairs. Trying to mentally edit an Excel. #fb
• What the heck is this "pivot table" nonsense, anyway? If I wanted to pivot I would have bought a Sit & Spin.
• Just showed a customer how to do a pivot table and saved him a couple of hours work per month. I was popular!
• ooh, it could be so worse, you could be sitting in front of a pile of receipts and one unhappy looking spreadsheet…
• Excel spreadsheet, you can not be this persnickety today please. Thanks.
• mustering up the motivation to work on a finance project, but mostly staring at a blank excel spreadsheet morosely
• Last night i dreamt of pivot tables again. yes, pivot tables & yes AGAIN! i need to use excel less.
• if i have to work on another excel report i might just explode into binary

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• Excel Charts
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel Templates

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What’s wrong with running PowerPivot on XP? I don’t have to justify myself! But it’s strange that the tweeter assumes I’m a man – maybe I need more rainbows, and less dynamite, on my website.

• Wunderkind: a young lad with basic familiarity of Excel (today it was "The Pivot Table") in an office full of baby boom computer illiterates
• Zac can count. Zac understands calculators. Now all I need to teach him is pivot tables in Excel and I can send him to work to do my job
• Love it- excel is the fisherprice of programming… #trampoline
• Hacked my way into someone’s password-protected Excel file to look at their VBA code. Nerdy, but super cool and fun.
• I am at the "Excel spreadsheet open as I pretend to do work I don’t have because there is none" part of the day
• This man is running PowerPivot on XP. Strange… http://www.contextures.com/PowerPivot-Identical-Excel-Files.html
• Co-worker asked me why the text in an excel spreadsheet wasn’t lined up right. I almost told him "I don’t have to justify myself to you!"
• why do physics professors love excel?
• Showing my weekly budget paperwork who’s boss: ME (as long as Microsoft Excel says it’s okay).
• it’s an excel macro? They don’t work on twitter, just excell
• Stupid excel, make the damn graph!!!
• New found love – Nephew and Microsoft Excel. And they don’t go together
• One of these days I’ll swear-off getting involved in projects where the "application" is an Excel worksheet.
• So I found a cost/street value excel spreadsheet calculator for Cocaine on my computer.
• It’s quarter past midnight and I’m designing spreadsheets for work. Sad MS Excel addict much?
• Dear work: why exactly is it ‘inappropriate’ to yell "BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!" when I get an excel spreadsheet formula correct?
• My husband is making an Excel spreadsheet detailing my son’s Thomas collection and the value of each piece. #lovemygeek
• OH in conversation between two financial analysts: FA1 "I love Excel." FA2 "Oh man, me too." #geekingoutoverExcel
• I swear #Excel should limit you to 4 colours until you’ve proven you can use them effectively. #SeeingRainbows

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• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA
• PowerPivot for Excel 2010

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Cursing John Walkenbach – didn’t they make a movie about that, starring John Cusack and Cameron Diaz? And speaking of movies, don’t let that Invesco video give you pie chart nightmares!

• Prior to this Excel class if my boss had asked me to Concatenate his Function I might have sued for harassment…
• Curse you Walkenbach! All these curly brackets! What sort of twisted formula is this? #excel #arrays
• The 2 most abused software applications in the business world: #Excel & #PowerPoint.
• Excel nightmares. Watch out for pie charts! — Invesco "It Can Happen" http://t.co/M0CY5HP via @youtube
• May have momentarily forgotten that iTunes wasn’t excel and tried to hide rows the got confused when it didnt work….
• Ooh I do love a pivot table #ivebeeninthelibrarytoolong
• Just got a website concept as an #excel file – why do people stuff like that? why? #facePalm
• I was so bored at work i took the time to find out that microsoft excel is capable having only 65536 rows #thatsit
• quickbooks: you’re complicated & fussy! i’m going back to my old love, excel. consider this your post-it note breakup. #smallbusiness
• I need some food before trying to understand the formulas in that spreadsheet?!? feed the brain!
• I currently have 18 Excel docs open. I need a spreadsheet to manage the spreadsheets.
• Big ‘IF THEN’ statement in #excel is killing me!
• Wrote my first decidedly elegant line of code. Awesome feeling. On excel but still.
• i din’t know how sophisticated an excel spreadsheet can be. i feel like a grown up creating all this formula and piecharts. #microsoftoffice
• I work that kind of thing out in my head. Dont need excel for that. The answer is42!
• On my way to see Big Audio Dynamite and watching Excel pivot table tutorials. #NeverADullMoment
• Entering formulas into excel. Like a boss.
• Excel cannot complete this task with available resources. Choose less data What? I’m only creating a pivot table from 52,000 rows of data
• Someone just told me that he doesn’t have Excel, so he can’t open the spreadsheet I sent. He should look into updating that Commodore 64.

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• Excel Charts
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel Functions

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Yes, it does sound tempting to run off and drink champagne, but no one said it would be easy. Stay at your desk, and savour the small Excel victories.

• Ever noticed that the only time you work on learning Excel is when you actually need to do something with it and it is due today? Yep.
• You know you have a problem when Excel shows up in your dreams. Waking up bored is not a great way to start the day!
• I hated working in an office, but I sure do love being able to find my way around an excel spreadsheet!
• The secret of manipulating bin sizes in a spreadsheet is slowly revealing itself. But … #excel #statistics
• One of the most underrated and important work skills: Knowing how to use Excel properly.
• Anyone out there know MS Excel???? And by know, I mean KNOW. I have a problem that’s more advanced than how to add two cells together.
• I’m not making an Excel spreadsheet for DJ-ing with BPM, cue points, and EQ notes. Psh! Do you think I’m an effing Ravenclaw? *shifty eyes*
• If I see another pivot table I’m going to *something* *something*.
• Much rather be guzzling free champers at the new #m&s opening on #eccy road than staring at an Excel spreadsheet #cheersies
• No one said it would be easy. And then they asked for an Excel spreadsheet.
• Oh dear I’ve sent people a spreadsheet where the text is aligned all rubbishly so if they’re like me they’ll be annoyed. Oops.
• Today I tell the young ones a little about code and language and some more excel. Sorting and graphs. Think they will like the graphing.
• Throughout the work day its the minor Excel victories that make you really proud. And lame. #Me
• Anyone wanting to hide information from me should just put it in a spreadsheet and email it to me.
• I’d rather spend my entire day in front an Excel spreadsheet than anything else in the whole-wide-world. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement
• The biggest problem with Excel is its mere existence. #hugeproblem
• If you’ve got a problem, and no one else can help…just build a spreadsheet. Thank you excel for your help once again xx#SpreadsheetsRock
• Excel No One #moviedayattheoffice
• oh excel sheets…I loathe and love you. you’re the Ike to my Tina #datasheets

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• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA
• Excel Functions

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You’ve heard of Excel pie charts, but what about custard charts? They sound equally delicious! And disarming.

• I’m the Director of IT at my office. Excel just shutdown and I lost a days worth of work. Just so you know it happens to us too.
• i love how the "show quick preview" printing option in excel bogs my machine down and takes a good 2-3 minutes.
• My Excel Geekometer went off the charts today when I unlocked the world of programmatically controlling Essbase with VBA. #sendhelp
• With statistics functions, I am entering strange waters. NORMDIST is a reassuring function though. Acts as my anchor. #excel
• So…a person was hired to use Excel AND HAS NEVER USED EXCEL. And this is now my problem?
• Just solved a complicated excel formula problem. Moral of story: F comes after E not before.
• it appears you can disarm bombs by using ms excel! http://t.co/ASiNQHM
• I put all of the excel sheets I needed in one workbook so I didn’t have to set print settings for each sheet. Guess what? You still have to.
• I almost cried earlier cus I didnt knw how to work microsoft excel for my project. But thank God for youtube videos lol
• Sorry Mr Salesman, that spreadsheet is misnamed it should be "pipedream" not "pipeline"!
• So much for me getting off work on time – stuck with a stupid excel issue for a user – uuuggghhh
• The excel problem now seems to be, it can’t tell if things like 02/12/10 are MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY.
• There are no stupid questions when it comes to MS Excel, just stupid people. #googleitdamnit
• No work for me today! Instead I’m going to become a Excel Super User…hope they have STRONG coffee!
• If I hide from this spreadsheet, will it solve its own problems?
• Yay for being able to paste conditional formatting across all tabs! Wasn’t sure if that would work. #Excel #IAmANerd
• Have started answering the phone at work as ‘excel help desk’ #fml
• New Goal: Learn #Excel Programming in next 15 days. How uncool can I be
• were making custard charts according to my excel 2 teacher at JCCC. yummm making me hungry. #itsclustersmartprofessor.

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• Excel Charts
• Excel Functions
• Excel Conditional Formatting

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A pig, some bricks, and a whiz. No, it’s not a fairytale, it’s just another day in Excel. Grab some coffee and buttered paper, and get started.

• if i were you i’d just delete the excel worksheet, uninstall excel and tell your (big?) boss to shove it…. but i’m not you =)
• I wish Excel would default to a 0 gap width for bar charts.
• oooh i remember setting up my first drop down list, pivot table and the ultimate "vlookups".
• Yes!! I feel restless! Maybe I’m getting Spreadsheet Withdrawl Syndrome! Lol
• Funny observation: when entering a function in a spreadsheet you have to start with =( maybe that’s why math makes me sad
• Is it sad that I’d rather get a lower grade in class than pay $197 for a CD with some stupid excel files? #tightwad
• Oh Excel conditional formatting, how I love thee. Colour coded my spreadsheet in a way that would have taken hours. #TimeForASmugBrew
• Now on BBC4; the true story of Florence Nightingale and her use of Microsoft Excel charts and pivot tables. Way ahead of her time.
• When I was 8 a spreadsheet was something you did before you made a fort out of old bricks in the garden.
• Somebody played 52 card pick-up with my spreadsheet.
• Boss looking for an "Excel Whiz" to make a table for him. He’ll be so excited when he finds out I can also use the ‘Sum’ function.
• Public service announcement. If you can use Excel functions but don’t use pivot tables, learn pivot tables. Really, they’re the best.
• Pens and paper make a refreshing change from powerpoint and excel. Real office beats MS Office everytime…
• i love excel. i don’t do a lot of formula stuff but can do data coloration etc.
• You’ll all be pleased to hear that it’s a day of spreadsheet analysis for me. like a pig in mud lol
• i still don’t think i know what a spreadsheet is. the word makes me think of buttered paper
• Ladies and gentlemen of Twitter: an announcement. I HAVE MADE A PIVOT TABLE WORK ALL BY MYSELF. #success
• Best way to start the morning you ask??? #Coffee and #spreadsheets. Don’t know why I’m so addicted to Microsoft #excel
• it’s called a pivot table sweetie. Need some excel tutoring and a tissue?

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Related Links:

• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VLOOKUP Function
• Excel Conditional Formatting

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Don’t blame Excel when your wedding goes over budget – it can’t order a fighter jet on its own! However, pastel pie charts wouldn’t cost much, and make lovely decorations.

• I wonder what the world would be like without Excel.
• Ok, I think my spreadsheet is now current. Dear COO, please to be not adding anything new to it, else my head might explode. /frazzled
• New addition to the ultimate wedding spreadsheet "fighter jet flyover"#goingtogetintrouble
• btw i can teach you pivot tables, but only on older versions of excel — the 2007 version blows.
• Is it me, or is Excel 2007 just plain sluggish?
• Making pie… charts that is. The default colors for charts in Excel are terrible. Nothing like pastels to grab someones eye < sarcasm
• I have mad love for MS Excel, those functions, curly formulas, macros *sigh* I’m in love #spreadsheetSwagger
• Just bought a book on VBA code in Excel from Amazon. #nerdwinning
• excel pivot tables do stink!! Why can’t they simplify that process? Not rocket science! Or- wait-maybe it is after all!
• Do new versions of Excel have the international date format built in? Because not having that is just stupid.
• I love mathematical modelling on excel….its a great destresser
• I love inserting comments in excel sheets. The small text boxes with arrows pointing to the cells excite me. Lol!
• Not that said coworker intentionally confused his code… that’s just the nature of the beast when working in Excel. Ugh.
• I hate Excel.I do,however,love my secretary (an appropriate amount).altho its her fault I am lazy&have an IT skills gap!
• I wrote between 12K and 20K lines of code today. Well not me excel did most of the work. I am the worlds most inefficient code monkey.
• Just wrote an #excel formula that line-wraps 3 times. If I hadn’t written it myself, it would look like an alien language.
• Ughh comp died and excel lost half my data of the populations of the 200 countries in the world #fml
• Just found some SUMPRODUCTs in an old spreadsheet I made. SUMPRODUCT…? SUMPRODUCT..? Ah! I remember those… *wistful sigh*
• Always play to your strengths. I spent 5 minutes making charts on an excel spreadsheet and my group totally thinks I’m pulling my weight.

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• Excel Charts
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA

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Back to work after a lovely spring weekend, and some people are cringing when they open Excel. What about you? Hung over? Or Awesome?

• Burying myself in a spreadsheet, hiding from the METs playing consistently – consistently bad pitching, consistently bad clutch hitting…
• sleeeeeeeepppp – this spreadsheet was a far more complex mire of cells than I was expecting
• Created a spreadsheet and graph on my mac to chart the progress of my book – procrastination to the extreme!
• Pretty sure I need Excel training – I can barely sort by column, and WTF is a pivot table? Yes I know I’m in IT….
• Working out what books to buy with the help of a spreadsheet. I’m just that cool.
• *cringe* opening up excel. on purpose. not for client work.
• You know what’s awesome? Working on an excel worksheet all morning, and then accidentally exiting without saving it. That’s genius. :/
• I’m probably doing the nerdiest, lamest thing anyone could be doing right now: An excel spreadsheet for my Magic cards as a database. 8D
• Well work has brainwashed me to the point of I cannot decipher information that is not in the form of an Excel spreadsheet.
• I just created a colour-coded ‘new house’ spreadsheet, with formulae and everything. Man, being responsible is so time consuming…
• Problem solving, yes. Playing with MS Word or macros in Excel, no.
• woke up early to try and finish some school work…it took me 2 hours to make a graph on excel… #hungover
• High-fives and shouts of joy as we set up Excel sales reports with conditional formulas…and they work. #nerdalert
• All done voting. Heading back to work now ? Excel is my lover for the day, we shall make sweet spreadsheets together #sexy #donthate
• My work from home plan mildly failed because I forgot I have Excel 2007 and I barely know how to use it. #FAIL
• Curse these arrays. They reject variable cell addresses. If I were Ricardo Montalban I would say they task me. #excel #arrays #Khan!
• Great day today, dog sit, work on excel, yanks vs sox, masters, spurs, then watching james kirkland box tonight! Holler!
• trying to do some simple analyses on some data for my latest assignment – When exactly does Microsoft Excel ever actually #excel?

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Related Links:

• Excel Charts
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel Conditional Formatting

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