Excel Tweets Roundup 20200131 – Excel Theatre Blog

Do your Excel formulas work on the first try? Are pivot tables the high-water mark of Excel skills? Don’t use too many Excel brain waves trying to answer those questions! And watch the video below, if you too want to make a VLOOKUP formula work on the first try.

This Week’s Tweets

Here are my favourite Excel tweets, from all the ones that I saw on Twitter this week.

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Today I intend to make work more exciting by announcing every action with “COMPUTER!”

“COMPUTER, OPEN EXCEL AND LOAD THE COURSE LIST FILE!”

*Moves mouse, clicks on Excel icon, loads file, cries in his cubicle*

— Canovaccio (@Canovaccio) January 29, 2020

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Bought a new monitor, using expanded to work between excel docs and my cursor keeps vanishing now. My cursor is cursed.

— Kate of Kate Hall ☕ (@erstkate) January 30, 2020

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I have to use excel a lot at work and today I wrote a if(isna(vlookup))) that WORKED ON THE FIRST TRY I’m aware this is a niche tweet but I finally have a job that I like and that appreciates my work. My coworker actually applauded this

— B (@insomniamemoirs) January 30, 2020

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Is there a reason Pivot Tables are considered the high-water mark of Excel knowledge? Is it short hand for “If you’ve used a Pivot Table, presumably you’ve gotten to the point where you needed one?”

— Brennan Molina (@bmolinaboston) January 29, 2020

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Last day of Power BI training. Workshop day. I’m going to work on converting a monster Excel file with lots of VLOOKUPs. pic.twitter.com/rGr2NBUoKQ

— Marshall MSP (@MyNextAct) January 30, 2020

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I always assumed that critical parts of the Excel code were written in uncommented 8086 assembler language by a recent college graduate in the late 1980s.

— Steven Schumacher (@muckledger) January 30, 2020

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Gamers that work:

Do you find yourself reading a document or doing something and notice that you’ve naturally rested your left hand on WASD?

It’s like I want to strafe on Excel.

— Frolicols (@frolicols) January 30, 2020

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You ever come across a problem task at work, realize your in for a real long and bad time with it, then suddenly have a brain wave and triumphantly come up with a quick fix? Cuz I just did and I feel like an Excel Spreadsheet King!

— Kranky Kobold (@MenaceFromSpace) January 29, 2020

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You know you’re a working adult when you get excited to use an Excel spreadsheet you made, because it’ll make your work that much more organized.

— BubbleberryVII (@BubbleberryVII) January 29, 2020

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Me: Just about done with this thing I’ve been working on all day and I can go home at a reasonable hour for a change.

Excel: LOLOLOLOL no. ::crashes for literally no reason::

Me: ::tears computer in half through sheer rage and throws both halves across the office::

— Patrick (@UprootedTexan99) January 30, 2020

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If your answer isn’t pivot tables do you really love #Excel? https://t.co/SvBu80RGXu

— Alex Carter (@AlexEdCarter) January 30, 2020

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I used to think running a report was this thing that took a lot of work and concentration. Turns out it’s basically a fancy way of saying you’re opening an excel spreadsheet #adulthoodsham

— cheese (@k_so_queso) January 30, 2020

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my boss is making me a medal to celebrate my new job title of ‘excel legend’ for essentially knowing the COUNTIF function exists, they think I am a real life wizard pic.twitter.com/rLuOIYUCBH

— al (@jllyf1sh) January 29, 2020

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Find Product Price with Excel VLOOKUP

Learn more about the Excel VLOOKUP function

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