Before you burn you mouse, make sure that you really know all the Excel shortcut keys. Otherwise, you and Excel might end up with irreconcilable differences.
- Making a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with all my potential jobs on it. This is how real nerds assess their career options. ►
- you would think I would love a 4 hour microsoft excel training…but I don’t. #dying ►
- Spent a good hour trying to get a DCOUNT to work when all I really needed was a pivot table. #Exceltip #nerdtalk As you were… ►
- Memorize all shortcut keys in excel to the extent that you need mouse no more to do your work. #tipstobecomeanactuary *burn the mouse!* ►
- If it is wrong to <3 Excel Pivot Charts I don’t want to be right. 🙂 ►
- its adorable when people who don’t know excel use excel and try to make it "pretty". its annoying when i then have to work with the "pretty" ►
- I attempted creating graphs for my data using Excel, but I simply cannot. I am incapable. It is impossible. It trolls. ►
- You: problem solving that potentially saves lives. Me: Problem solving that fixes an excel spreadsheet formula. Um…… ►
- Seriously Excel how hard is it to graph X vs Y? I’ll even select the colums I want you to compare because I’m nice like that. ►
- When I sort by name in a spreadsheet – I expect it to be alphabetical. In what language is T before R in the alphabet excel? ►
- Husband has just told me he is building an "irreconcilable differences" excel spreadsheet.
#newlyweddedbliss ►
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Now it’s getting personal – Excel charts are interfering with our hair maintenance! Maybe that’s why Loud Guy makes so much noise.
If the coffee and chocolate don’t solve all your Excel problems, have a few cups of tea. Then you should be ready to tackle that nail polish worksheet!
Did you remember to change your clocks to Daylight Savings Time, or did you keep Excel waiting this morning? 
Warning — if you try to attract suitors with your spreadsheet stories, you might end up with Excel as your dinner companion. Of course, in some cases, that is the best choice. 😉
More tweaking on the Excel Twitter layout – now, instead of the tweeter’s name, there is a link to each tweet. Click the blue triangle to see the tweeter’s info, and any replies to the tweet. If you prefer these links, or the names, please let me know. 
If you struggle long enough with Excel charts, will all that hard work help you lose weight? Throw in a few high fives too – they’re good for burning calories.
If you have to Google for "how to make a pie chart", you probably shouldn’t be in charge of the cookie sales spreadsheet. It could turn into the white screen of doom.
When you start to get annoyed, remember that all those people who don’t know how to format a worksheet, or save an Excel file, might be the main reason you still have a job!
While you’re dunking your biscuits, and looking at the funny shapes in the Excel charts, try not to become bitter. Remember, Excel is sexy!
While working in Excel, beware of the feral pivot tables. And if you’re on your mobile phone, calling for Excel help, don’t believe the forum geeks who tell you that VLOOKUPs are simple!
While you’re sitting in Starbucks, sipping coffee and looking at your Excel file, you can admire the modern art that your Excel sheets resemble.
Excel might not send you flowers, but it can still bring some joy to your life. Until it gets too complicated.
Yes, creating Excel formulas is serious business, but be careful that you don’t burn your baguettes while working on largely pointless charts.
If Excel formatting starts to look sexy to you, you should try to go out on a Friday night, instead of staying in, and turning Excel into art.
Has Excel earned your respect, even if it turns treacherous, and crashes now and then? Maybe you should use it at work, to meet those productivity targets.
Yes, it’s a good idea to give your Excel file a meaningful name. However, it’s even more important to save your work in the right format, and watch what you’re sorting.
Yes, it’s true – a pivot table could be lying to you. If that gives you nightmares, maybe you should give up Excel for Lent, or go back to college.
What shade of grey would Basil Fawlty choose for his spreadsheets? It probably doesn’t matter, because I doubt that he ever finished a task. 
If you succeed in making an Excel chart, try to avoid scaring the cats – and the women at Starbucks.
There is a slightly different format for the Excel tweet collection this week. I’m keeping the author names, but not the avatars. I found those distracting – how about you? Did you like them?
There is a "break a leg, then open Excel" joke for theatre majors, somewhere in my head, but I can’t think of it right now. And remember to be careful what you tweet about, or you could lose your job!
Ashley 
Champ Superstar 
Mihaela (Dr. V) 
Simon Cooper 
Kyle Davis 
Jill Carter 
Kristofer Spinka 
Yth. Bpk. 
DMEdwards 
James Kennedy 
Annie Cushing 
Chris Sacca 
K.m@ck 
K Casto-Ardern 
If you are going to get sick, make sure it’s not on advanced Excel macro day, or you will miss all the mind-brimming knowledge. That would make you blue…or peach, or purple, or green.
Vigour Mortis 
Andrew Wheeler 
Wendy Hogan 
Horne, Marc 
Rue D! 
Josh 
kaathima ebrahim 
Sam 
Barny Crocker 
Vesper Lynd 
M Irfaan 
shotika smith 
Adam Robbins 
Even if you have a kid who looks like an Excel worksheet, please don’t name that kid "Exploded Pie". Pivot Table would be a good name though.
kyle cassidy 
Sigrid Smith 
Rob Collie 
Jabbar 
Richie Churchill 
Michael Gomes 
Holden Scott 
Rachel LaCount 
laurafry 
Laura Talbot 
Stacy Cervantes 
Phillip Hudson 
Ian Kirk-Ellis 
You’re a genius, obviously, or you wouldn’t be working with Excel. Could anything kill your love for it?
mattgammarayz 
DJ Bahler 
Ben Simo 
Lydia Rutherford ϟ 
Herry P. 
Andrew Berkshire 
Lauren Leverette 
Ivica Folnovic 
Warwick Rasmussen 
Mariko Lam 
Timothy Hogan 
Elizabeth 
Happy Valentine’s Day! Everyone loves Excel, and I hope you like the new format for this daily collection of Excel tweets. Thanks to 
Alicia Mooradian 
Kash Soni 
Teemu Vesala 
Mark 
stephen powell 
dave carter 
Afiq Hipni 
Veerle Buys 
Sequentialx 
Adam Schoenfeld 
ɔıʇsɐʇןןıɥɔos 
Ben Simo 
Curtis Rogers 
While you plan your non-alcoholic activities in Excel, don’t stare at the soccer ball that is moving across your spreadsheet.
Excel can keep track of seal scat and nap times, but can’t replace a map of Canada. Good to know!
Keep track of your clothes in Excel, and you’ll look good while creating those masterpieces, or when crying.
Don’t give up! Your boss might learn how to change the font size in Excel, and you’ll learn to love VLOOKUP again. 
Teachers who are opposed to pie charts, and cars that have spreadsheet striped paint jobs? Yes, there is hope for the world, after all.
Excel should not make you cry – unless you’re looking at a pie chart that a distinguished doctor made.
Do you have pivot table problems? Never mind, we’re not allowed to talk about pivot tables. Look a the chart that the baby made! And if you’re looking for Excel videos on YouTube, remember to start on the 
I know how to work Excel for 5 minutes – how about you? However, that might not be enough time to colour code everything and sort the data 8 different ways.
Tea might be able to solve your Excel problem, unless it’s the Windows Excel Word 2003 Illustrator kind. Those problems might need Bill Gates to solve them.