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Do your Excel files use all 1 million rows? Do any of your calculations take 46 hours? Some people are really pushing Excel to the limits in Twitter this week. Others, perhaps the smart ones, are just dancing and drinking champagne. And now that I think about it, I’d like to know why the vertical…

From now on, each of my Excel files will be referred to as "a ripping piece of awesome". My dyslexic tendencies are kind of pesky, considering I work on excel and with numbers all day. Just built an Excel worksheet to calculate time-lapse movie values. Very cool, if I do say so myself. #fb Why…

You won’t get your Excel homework done, if you keeping thinking about puppies on skateboards. Trying to get Microsoft Excel to do standard deviation is like trying to teach a puppy to ride a skateboard. Work told me today that they’re sending me to an Excel/macro programming class and I’m excited! I know I’m a…

If you’re only as hot as your last worksheet, you’d better skip the pool parties and focus on that budget. My Excel teacher just stopped in the middle of class and goes, "Oooh, I just love this stuff! It’s so fun!" #crazycatlady Just made the most perfect chart on Excel:) #nerdtweet Chances are increasing rapidly…

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…

Happy Canada Day! Yes, it would be awesome if you could create an XY Scatter chart from a pivot table. Maybe that will be available in the next version of Excel. ……my mom isn’t allowed to work on this Excel sheet anymore…everything is all over the place… I love the way the visual basic editor…