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It was a week of change in the USA and there were many tweets about that, and some even mentioned Excel. It’s surprising how things are connected in the Twitterverse. Linda Dessau, one of the people whose Excel question I answered in Twitter last week, described the experience in her blog. We’re almost a month…

As usual, people were working hard in Excel on the weekend, and complaining about it in Twitter. But no matter how bad things get in Excel, I’ve never wanted to trade places with a cat! A pub in Galway sounds nice though (aren’t all the pubs in Galway Irish?) How much time do you work,…

If you had to plan a festival, you’d use Excel, wouldn’t you? And remember to make a backup copy, so you don’t lose an entire, highly-detailed workbook. just got to work and found out i lost an entire excel spreadsheet. #itsgoingtobeagreatday Managed to get my excel worksheet to spend 2 minutes recalculating my formulas across…

It’s a good day if you manage to make a pie chart, have cheese on toast for lunch, and aren’t killed by an Excel function. My work laptop can’t handle the awesome power of my excel spreadsheets. After turning to Excel and crafting a finely tuned pivot table I have concluded that I need: A….

As summer comes to an end (well in the Northern Hemisphere), people are huddled over their spreadsheets, assessing their careers, and cooking up plans of world domination, one co-worker at a time. This week’s Twitters show that thoughts have also turned to food and drink, with spreadsheet on the side. A long winter is ahead…

If you colour code the entire Excel sheet, drink gallons of coffee, and watch a movie about monkeys, maybe the pivot table will work. #excel crash. so long work. i will attempt to craft a twin version, only stronger. my waterfall chart is now the most awesome one ever 😀 Excel triumph #didntknowihaditinme Love my…