While you use Excel to plan your Christmas shopping, please sing along with the festive pivot table song. Remember to select the correct cells before you start, and don’t use a Mac!
Happy Holidays, and I’ll see you back here in January!

This Week’s Tweets – Plain Text
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- It’s totally normal to spreadsheet and then create a pivot table when planning out your Christmas shopping day, right?
- Yesterday I was complaining about excel. Today I hand drew a graph and now I love excel again.
- Every time I create a Pivot Table in a spreadsheet I walk around the office like some sort of tabular demigod.
- “Little pivot table / I made you in Excel / Why don’t you want to work now… / I smash you into hell!” EVERYBODY SING! 😛
- And now my pivot table doesn’t want to agree with me. At least it’s Friday. It is Friday, right?
- Searched for “microsoft excel mac edit cell”. Gotta love the top answer. FU indeed. pic.twitter.com/XH4M2lwlLX
- can you pivot a pivot table? #deepthoughts
- I’ve been told to color code an excel spreadsheet to make it easier to read but the only data input was a simple “Yes/No”
- Every dream has an excel sheet -Efrat Shani. I so love this quote! Working on my 2016 excel dream sheet.
- you may have a xmas baking problem when you have to create an excel sheet to track the number of butter sticks you need.
- I never thought that Excel pivot tables would be the best thing that ever happened to me…
- You know you’re ill and you work too much when you spend all night hallucinating that you’re inside a room-sized excel spreadsheet
- I just used the word “grandeur” to describe an Excel file that I made at work…. this has gone too far.
- It’s midnight and I can’t stop laughing that Jess did an excel to work out secret Santa
- Note to self: Excel formulas work better when you select all correct cells.
This Week’s Tweets – Embedded
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It’s totally normal to spreadsheet and then create a pivot table when planning out your Christmas shopping day, right?
— Emperor Paulpatine (@_dockingbay94_) December 12, 2015
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Yesterday I was complaining about excel. Today I hand drew a graph and now I love excel again.
— Insert Xmas pun here (@OMGcharli) December 15, 2015
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Every time I create a Pivot Table in a spreadsheet I walk around the office like some sort of tabular demigod.
— Sandeep Parikh (@crcsmnky) December 10, 2015
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@Rubberasylum “Little pivot table / I made you in Excel / Why don’t you want to work now… / I smash you into hell!” EVERYBODY SING! 😛
— Drew (@PupsterCA) December 16, 2015
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And now my pivot table doesn’t want to agree with me. At least it’s Friday. It is Friday, right?
— Chelsea O’Brien (@ChelseaMDO) December 11, 2015
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Searched for “microsoft excel mac edit cell”. Gotta love the top answer. FU indeed. pic.twitter.com/XH4M2lwlLX
— Miguel Nicolau (@nicolaum73) December 16, 2015
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can you pivot a pivot table? #deepthoughts w/ @TrevorHLynn
— Ray Miller (@touchofray) December 15, 2015
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I’ve been told to color code an excel spreadsheet to make it easier to read but the only data input was a simple “Yes/No”
— activist on actavis (@indiKEV) December 10, 2015
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Every dream has an excel sheet -Efrat Shani. I so love this quote! Working on my 2016 excel dream sheet.
— Susan Koinange (@susannduta) December 16, 2015
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you may have a xmas baking problem when you have to create an excel sheet to track the number of butter sticks you need.
— whit (@spokescreative) December 13, 2015
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I never thought that Excel pivot tables would be the best thing that ever happened to me…
— DVS (@denavsworld) December 16, 2015
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You know you’re ill and you work too much when you spend all night hallucinating that you’re inside a room-sized excel spreadsheet
— Dan Benson (@danryanbenson) December 16, 2015
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I just used the word “grandeur” to describe an Excel file that I made at work…. this has gone too far.
— Jamie Stoffel (@Jamie_Stoffel) December 14, 2015
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It’s midnight and I can’t stop laughing that Jess did an excel to work out secret Santa
— liam (@crowleyliam_) December 11, 2015
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Note to self: Excel formulas work better when you select all correct cells.
— Chris Nickinson (@chrisnickinson) December 11, 2015
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This Week’s Tweets By
_dockingbay94_, OMGcharli, crcsmnky, PupsterCA, ChelseaMDO, nicolaum73, touchofray, indiKEV, susannduta, spokescreative, denavsworld, danryanbenson, Jamie_Stoffel, crowleyliam_, chrisnickinson
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