Author: Debra Dalgleish

That’s what Excel needs – more tinsel! And if we’re making a wish list, a beer garden would be a nice add-in.

• I cant believe i am missing out on the secret party tonight to do a bloody excel spreadsheet! #dedicatedtothejob
• My boss has been trying to figure out something in excel for 20+ mins, used google to help & it took me longer to type this tweet #techjock
• Been staring at an Excel spreadsheet for the past 3 hours. I must look like a wounded fish staring at the computer screen.
• My 2.5 year-old son starred at my excel pie chart and said "Pizza! So Yummy!". #freshperspective
• Just found my moms spreadsheet for my Christmas list… Microsoft Excel says I’m gonna have a great Christmas #thankgodformynerdmom
• It amuses me how people create the most elaborate charts & graphs to hide the underlying statistics. I didn’t know Excel had all this color.
• In the office on my own, got the tunes on, tinsel all over the place, preparing for excel spreadsheet hour…..
• Lord I can’t work Microsoft excel for my life. I always end up just putting white out and crap on my graphs after I print them. hahaha
• My bosses love to duplicate effort. They want various columns from various excel sheets to be on various excel sheets. Sigh.
• The week leading up to Christmas is possible the worst week ever to start data analysis. Blank spreadsheet. Beer garden. What would you do?
• Lasagna + caffe latte + Bob Marley & The Wailers documentary + excel spreadsheet = awesome day at work!
• Microsoft should really put some effort in making Excel look a lot more friendly. Work with Excel should be fun! #sarcasm
• yogurt covered pretzels: you’re the only thing getting me through this excel spreadsheet. i love you.
• Omg I can’t believe I did that! Poor naming of excel files leads to me deleting the file I was working on all day. #fml
• YES!!! when i play Jeopardy with my family, we keep score on an excel spreadsheet. it’s serious #nerd
• I friggin love Excel, that’s even more fun than playmobils.
• Last week, a customer sent me a PDF of a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet. I think I win.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Holiday Dinner Planner

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Periyar National Park sounds like a wonderful place to think about Excel. I had to Google to find out where the park is located – did you?

• A pivot table is meant to make life simpler! This one doesn’t! I am so tempted to fix this….
• I also got an A in my Excel spreadsheet class, but that was a given for me. 😛
• It feels very weird, after a walk in Periyar National Park, to explain to a colleague over the phone, how to solve some stupid excel problem
• Chap on train has an Excel spreadsheet on his laptop, and a scientific calculator in his hand. Geeks for the win! #NiceDuffelCoat
• It’s totally normal to have an excel spreadsheet documenting the cheapest canned beans in town, right?
• It appears the chap who’s taking over from me at work isn’t very good at excel. This may be a problem.
• Student reflecting on his graph: struggled with it for a while, then I stopped because no seventeen year old is good at using excel.
• Excel has just crashed and then "recovered" almost every spreadsheet I have opened in the past month. ARGH!
• I am so bored at work I’ve put my Christmas shopping list into an excel spreadsheet and am one step shy of business casing it. 😐
• Last night #bluescreenofdeath whilst proof-reading proposal, today the horror of graphs in Excel 2007 – is #Microsoft is out to get me?
• If my boss says my excel sheets look "blah" and "boring" one more time I am coloring them in pink and glittering and bedazzling them #fedup
• When u sneak a look at the laptop screen of the person next to you on the train and it’s just some Excel spreadsheet that makes no sense. :/
• Cute girl in pub explained to me how she’s forced to use Excel at work because colleagues can’t code R. Be still my beating heart. #rstats
• one of the excel whiz’s at work made me a spreadsheet that tells me how many seconds i have til i’m outta there!
• Instead of Christmas shopping lists, my mom makes Christmas shopping excel charts. And I thought I was a #geek
• just made the second best vba enhanced spreadsheet ever. i am pretty pleased with myself.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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Having the boss do 1/57th of the Excel work sounds about right to me! Do use a spreadsheet when you finally get home, and you’ll feel better.

• You know what I love about using excel in this math unit? It’s like working for my parents all over again… (sarcasm at it’s max)
• Such a nerd!! Just cracking myself up over an excel spreadsheet
• Help a girl with Excel and she’ll love you for it. Teach a girl Excel and she’ll never need your help again.
• so much for leaving work early. my boss was supposed to split a spreadsheet of 57 calls with me. he did one.
• you have a problem, sir. You have an addiction to spreadsheet games. Of course you want to make a game about loans.
• Plagued by thoughts of my past and future, I somehow disappeared into a circular-referencing excel spreadsheet labeled "#timedoesntexist"
• I have a spreadsheet of stuff to do before Christmas, a column for each member of the family. Good for me. The other 3 will HATE it! Shame.
• Leavin this place can’t look at another spreadsheet I’m officially delirious
• I would love to spreadsheet my collecting, but since excel is 90% of my job, I dare not touch spreadsheets at home… Haha
• In my last company, you could get paid to teach classes after hours. Wish we had that here. Would love to teach people to REALLY use Excel.
• I’m looking at this spreadsheet like it can’t add. This is hilarious. I’m also really tired.
• Why don’t I have an Excel Spreadsheet for my Xmas list yet?! #TypeA #duh
• Unprompted, my son is creating an Excel spreadsheet of the @Indians lineup. #thatsmyboy #isitspringyet
• My father mailed out an excel spreadsheet to the entire extended family of what each person must make for xmas dinner.. what is my family?
• Lessons I have learnt from Burlesque 3) Cher is amazing with an Excel spreadsheet.

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Related Links:

• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Functions
• Excel Holiday Dinner Planner

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Even if you are a mad man, or self-proclaimed Excel moron, your Excel work will be easier if you know how to use a pivot table. Don’t let hell freeze over before you learn!

• Apparently Mad Men is going to conclude in the present day. Can’t wait to see an 80 year-old Don struggling to build a pivot table.
• I am creating a D&D character. On an Excel spreadsheet. A Lizardman Sorceror. Feel free to judge me. #nerd
• How lame is it that I’m incredibly proud of an excel spreadsheet I made? Qualifying factor: it’s a pretty boss spreadsheet.
• Hell freezes over! The Budster actually learned how to create an Excel spreadsheet with formulas today! WOW! Who is this guy?
• This has been my busiest week of work ever (at Vodafone)! I know, because I charted it in Excel.
• As a self-proclaimed excel moron I am instead drawing my own graph on paper. You know, that stuff no one uses anymore.
• I have just calculated that roughly 20% of my work time is spent staring at #bluedonuts on excel. PLEASE KILL ME.
• I like Excel. I like remembering functions I can use to make work easier. #nerd
• tonight Ian got his USB drive, made some slides in powerpoint and created and inserted an Excel graph of data. in 3 grade I didn’t do that..
• I am about to cry. I just accidentally deleted hours of excel spreadsheets for this HUGE project that’s due in 3 hours. #FML
• Whenever I leave work my computer gets really confused. "So wait you want to close ALL of your excel windows?"
• I hate Excel with equal amounts of passion as I love Ferrero Rocher chocolates. Think about that one. Think about it.
• Dear excel I think our love affair is over. I’ve heard absence makes the heart grow fonder,let’s hope or else #awkwardmonday. #beertime
• You know you work at a bank when you have to fill out an excel spreadsheet to order lunch.
• Basically I made a really awesome excel worksheet which is doing all the math for me, and then I’ll graph the results.
• Its 3:40 am and I can’t remember how to use Excel. Thank you internet for this website meant for grade school kids that creates easy graphs!
• Again, why is it suddenly my problem that the figures in this Excel sheet don’t add up? They gave me the numbers. I just put them in.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel Pivot Tables

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Have you ever made a Christmas gift that required multiple Excel calculations? Or do you avoid Excel, and focus your attention on things that you can do in the Kid Zone?

• No, I don’t want to go and find your error in your Excel spreadsheet. You screwed up the math. That’s not my problem. #ThingsIWishICouldSay
• My boss shouldn’t have asked me to work on a very complicated excel spreadsheet after a 2+ hour holiday lunch. I’m cross eyed right now!
• definitely sitting at home, looking at my life through an Excel spreadsheet… #IAmMyFathersSon
• My flatmates have made a spreadsheet on excel to ensure that each component of our christmas dinner is cooked on time. #sitbackandrelax
• Creating graphs in Excel < creating graphs in a website I found called "Kids Zone." If anyone understands pie charts it’s 10 year olds.
• Showing off some excel skills at work. They think I’m a genius…shhhh, don’t tell them…
• I’m realizing that my Excel Spreadsheet formula is off for two students. And I have no idea how to fix it. That’s bad, right.
• No wonder this Excel document has been taking so long to load/save. Somehow the 32 rows of the spreadsheet have multiplied to 1,048,576. Wow
• You know your making a hardcore christmas gift for someone when it involves an excel spreadsheet with several different calculations
• Nothing worse than working on excel or code on a monitor that’s way too small. #betterequipmentathome
• Ever make a spreadsheet in excel and marvel at how useful it’s going to be? #nerd
• I really can’t look at another excel spreadsheet. My brain will explode.
• Basically there’s a lot of functionality in here that is meant for tinkerers -Colleague on LTV excel workbook #fascinating
• I make so much more work for myself with my obsessive need for uniform formatting of excel spreadsheets. Serious case of OCD!
• That is where the Pivot table comes in. Helps me to evaluate where I am and where I want and need to go next. #educoach
• Does anybody else have the problem in Excel you tell it to freeze the top row, then it just doesn’t?
• The Excel-using world is divided into those who know how to use pivot tables and those who are going to learn them.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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Are bosses really fooled by colourful Excel sheets? Do professors change grades based on Excel spreadsheet arguments? Maybe the Internet knows the answers.

• New system "To save you time with all that Excel work you do" actually creates more Excel work before all the Excel work I do.
• Dear Internet, I fixed a stupid Excel mail merge issue today. I never thought this could make me feel like a super hero. #littlethings
• Pumping out fake statistics and charts in Excel while listening to Godspeed. That seems appropriate.
• I’m having one of those "I hate #powerpivot with a passion" days today
• Watching a stupid movie and more enthralled with the fact I can open and edit Excel spreadsheets on my iPad. Whaaat a nerrrrd.
• The format is different. -VP "It’s a pivot table. The data is the same." -Me "The format is different."-VP "Jesus Christ." -Me #headdesk
• In the business world, sometimes you get excited to hear there’s a Matrix, but it’s always an Excel spreadsheet. #fb
• I think I use Excel more to compile rap lists than I use it for legitimate spreadsheet purposes. Like I just did my top albums of 2011 list
• I started organizing my life on an excel spreadsheet so that I don’t lose track of my brains. #senioryear is so difficult
• i clearly have gone crazy. I just made an excel spreadsheet arguing why a professor should change my grade to a b. #ivelostmymind
• Has anyone ever used the word "sick" to describe an Excel spreadsheet? Allow me to be the first.
• Do you think my boss would understand if I said that I’m suffering from Excel blindness?
• I’m about to kill an old man who doesn’t understand how excel spreadsheets work… #theyareasecondyearclass #howdoyounotgetthisnow
• My boss’s boss just walked in. Let me open my colorful excel file.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Pivot Tables
• PowerPivot from Identical Files

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Remember, you can colour the sheet tabs in your Christmas gift workbook, to make it extra exciting!

• False alarm with my dad he had another IT related problem…it was how comes he couldnt see the whole excel sheet
• I love being able to do practically anything with Excel. It makes me quite useful in the office.
• didn’t get the job because I don’t have Excel pivot table skills – is this the norm now? Do you expect your admin to have this skill?
• Figuring out I can color the tabs for Excel workbook pages is as exciting as buying new pens! #schoolsuppliesgeek #newexceldiscovery
• I think my mind may be merging with the excel spreadsheet I’m looking at…
• You know what time it is… epic Excel spreadsheet time… on a 46 inch TV. Much easier when you can see all of the data!
• just lost all my data on excel for my lab. I am going to have a drink instead of fixing this problem
• Oh, just making an Excel spreadsheet of Christmas-gift recipients arranged by location, price and delivery dates and checking it twice.
• Today, coworker nonchalantly used the "concavenate" formula in excel to solve a problem. I have been officially schooled.
• Microsoft Excel has just kindly informed me that there is a circular reference *somewhere* in my eight-page workbook. #needleinahaystack
• Why doesn’t Excel have a box and whisker graph?!
• Writing an Excel macro. If I’m not back in an hour, tell my wife I love her.

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Related Links:

• Box and Whisker Chart
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel VBA 

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Do not unplug a stranger’s computer, no matter what they’re working on, or how rude Excel is being. Have a fourth cup of coffee and you’ll feel cool again.

• I love Excel Formulas. Feeling cool with meself right now.
• Been at the office since 4am. Still haven’t solved the problem. Now excel is being rude, and VBA is being borky. #abugslife
• My professor who gave extra credit in excel form, used sheet 2 to solve the problem, and sheet 1 is the answer, I feel bad I found this out
• I’m on my THIRD (afternoon) coffee and I kind of feel like it’s part of the problem. My brain is racing! Excel can’t keep up! HELP
• Im doing excel spreadsheet stuff and i look over and this girl studying types of drugs and effects of alcohol. I want to unplug her computer
• Engineers LOVE embedding Word docs inside Excel docs inside another Word doc. They’re the only ones I’ve seen do that LOL.
• I have to make a graph, what do I do? I’m so confused! Do I use excel?
• To master any data analysis, one must first master Pivot Tables. To master Pivot Tables, one must first master one’s lifelong fear of Excel.
• If you look up "worlds greatest calculator" and don’t see the Excel icon… you have a problem.
• Dear Excel. Would it hurt you to come to the real world and have separate windows for each worksheet? Your friend Word did it years ago
• Your story isn’t adding up, Excel. I have a pivot table that references that data, so don’t you #REF! me. You’re embarrassing both of us.
• Went hunting in Excel for the keyboard shortcut for "hide this column". Found "hide this workbook" instead. These are not interchangeable.
• I spent the whole day deciphering somebody else’s Excel VBA code. I did not enjoy it.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel Pivot Tables

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This weekend, you can spend a romantic night with Excel, then head out to do some Christmas shopping with your sister. If you’re lucky, she’ll have a colour-coded worksheet.

• Drawing a graph in excel is more work than its worth..
• I’m thrilled that my Excel pie-in-pie charts are working. I’m sad I’m thrilled. Sigh.
• I have a new spreadsheet to be obsessed with. It is colour coded and can be sorted to reveal many insightful things! An excel geeks dream!
• Excel is a fantastic tool but you have no idea how badly it contributes to increase the bad taste in charts/dashboard design. My eyes bleed!
• I’m gonna print out my excel spreadsheet today and ponder some goals for #skinnybychristmas
• We’re learning how to do charts in Excel and he is just going on and on about boring stuff so I’m not listening. #idontcare
• I love going in on Christmas presents with my sister because she makes color-coded excel sheets to keep track of everything.
• Will people stop talking to me I’m trying to turn an Excel spreadsheet into a finely polished gem
• Have spent a romantic night with an excel spreadsheet. Is this seriously what weddings turn you into?!
• i understand old people that dont know how to use an iPhone or formulas in an Excel spreadsheet…but you cant use a copier?!?!?! -___-
• I feel like a geek. I am creating an excel spreadsheet to handle my Christmas shopping and gift giving.
• Going to bed not because I’m tired, but so I don’t have to work with Excel anymore #frustrated
• Yesterday I learned how #Office365 #Excel Services doesn’t work. Today, I learned #Access Services works even less. Why did I buy E3?
• One of my profs today talked about charts and said "You can make these in Excedrin." Of course she meant Excel.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Functions

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Did you know that there was a Christmas song about Excel sheets? Or were you too busy avoiding your Mom’s emails about your spending?

• It’s not really that I hate Excel. It’s knowing that the 12 year old version of myself could have done this graph in Logo in 3 minutes.
• Aaaaah, the hour long "undo" when you accidentally delete 39000 rows in Excel. #FML
• now i know why everyone says excel is the hardest computer program in this whole class #FML
• So i just made a mistake and clicked on Excel when I was trying to click on Twitter. Maybe its a sign I need to do some work smh.
• So far for my essay I’ve written the title and drawn a pretty graph in Excel. I think that deserves a break.
• mom just emailed me an excel chart of my spending for the past month. to open or not to open. #scared #ignoranceisbliss
• I never thought I’d be able to make excel crash, but a graph of 70,000 results seems to do the trick #Ihatelabreports
• The secret to Excel whispering is to be firm & show it who’s boss. Don’t be afraid to threaten it or use vulgar language. It respects that.
• Rainy day motivates me to work on excel to find a solution to keep track of all my projects #feelingnerdy
• How times have changed! 1 of the kid’s xmas wishlist was in an email on an excel spreadsheet. I’m sure the other’s will come via powerpoint.
• Got my ears petted at Chipotle. Not a euphemism. And can now make somewhat complex Excel graphs. Not related.
• MS excel master! Even my wedding budget and to dos are in spreadsheets. At least my boss doesn’t know if I’m working on work or non-work :p
• i may or may not have made an excel chart of smilies and X’s in order to figure out everyone’s secret santa. using math class in real life.
• why does my boss use the oldest version of everything? im pretty sure she’s using excel 2002. doesnt really make sense to me.
• Your story isn’t adding up, Excel. I have a pivot table that references that data, so don’t you #REF! me. You’re embarrassing both of us.
• I love this Christmas song, "in excel sheets day old…" Not sure what it has to do with Christmas but it sounds good

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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Complaining about your group Excel project won’t make it go away, so just lock yourself in, and get it done. I’m sure that MC Hammer would agree.

• Just showed my boss how to copy and paste in excel #makes100kayear
• I love excel. Actually love. It’s disgusting
• As part of some new responsibilities, today I learned what a spreadsheet is, and also that I’ve had excel installed this whole time.
• Every problem that can occur in Excel is happening to me! Ughggggghh
• Excel isn’t working. Sign I shouldn’t do work? Yes! IT couldn’t even tell me what’s wrong with it.
• Been messing with an excel doc for 45 min finally got it formatted correctly and now my printer wont work SMH…
• This group project is a joke. I am never going to use excel spreadsheet to make cross tabulations in the future so why am I doing it now?
• pivot table no.1 out of infinity
• MS Word and Excel combined to create a chart is pure evil and slower than molasses.
• Is it just me or is it awesome that @DanB, creator if the spreadsheet retweets MC Hammer?
• really sorry I didn’t make it to snibbo last night. I was locked in an excel spreadsheet.
• Nice! I love playing with Excel. It makes me feel all important and organized 🙂
• I have my entire life in an excel spreadsheet. Pretty intense. I’m gonna be an NCIS agent 🙂 yay female cops.
• Create MS Excel spreadsheet, documenting how many encounters I have with Guns ‘n Roses when high. I can’t even laugh at this loophole.
• I hate how if I open more than one Excel spreadsheet, they’re all still within the same instance of Excel. Really freakin’ annoying.
• Google Spreadsheet is like Excel Plus: that is Excel plus even more disfunctional features.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables 

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Instead of creating a gift list in Excel, and starting your Christmas shopping, maybe you could write some code that does it all for you!

• Seriously, excel 2007, why would you have a function that would allow me to hide A WHOLE WORKBOOK?!?
• Taught my techie Momma something new about Pivot Tables. #geek #excel
• Have just told colleagues that I can mail merge an excel spreadsheet into a Word doc. They looked at me like I was a witch. #Technophobes
• Everytime I have to use Excel I’m reminded of why I taught myself to code in the first place.
• I just wrote multiple excel algorithms that will work together to do every single problem in this chapter for my friend. #Winning
• Too many charts and graphs and massive excel sheets taking over my life. #NotANumberPerson
• It’s about time to start xmas shopping. So many gifts to buy, need to start a spreadsheet…
• I hate when I’m trying to do something complicated in Excel that I know must be possible but just can’t quite figure out how to make it work
• Another day in front of an Excel spreadsheet – project planning is not all it is cracked up to be!
• Have forgotten all about the leading zeros, will stupid #excel ever properly recognize/save them? 20 years with the same issue #bonehead
• I can now do pivot tables in Excel. That should qualify me to run things. #challonforpresident2012
• A brightly coloured attendance spreadsheet (WITH pie charts) I made is apparently "beautiful beyond belief". #yay #geek
• I’m always scared to open the Excel Spreadsheet that my mom e-mails me about my debit card transactions.. 🙁
• Just totally yelled out "WHO’S YOUR DADDY?!"at an Excel workbook I managed to fix after an hour of major grief… Da hell is wrong with me?
• Use Excel Sheets to analyze the existing data, they work great. But not to predict, they suck

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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An Excel file that takes 10 minutes to open isn’t such a bad thing — that gives you a little time to focus on your music career. And try to avoid the lightning bolts!

• Last night I had a nightmare I couldn’t find the REF error in an excel model. Work has officially consumed my conscious and sub-conscious.
• (I really hope there’s no "Microsoft Excel Pie Chart Creativity" academic journals out there, calling me some kinda artsy-fartsy type.)
• I’ve finally found a use for the Pivot Table tool. I suppose this means God may strike me down with lightening at any moment now.
• Never thought creating an excel spreadsheet would be part of my music career… But I’m strangely comfortable with it.
• Pivot table me up, training man. I want all the tables. ALL OF THEM.
• I’m trying to put together a pivot table from over 540,000 data points! I think my computer is crying.
• Oh good heavens–I love a ood Excel spreadsheet. All I need is a sum key and I’m set. Formulas? Over the moon!
• Today’s phrase used to describe an IT-related problem: "this is unbearable". We could have skipped waterboarding for excel docs, apparently.
• I think I’m addicted to excel. I’m going to work early to work on a spreadsheet that nobody’s asked me to do.
• Nothing like opening your emails and discovering a 45MB spreadsheet for you to sort out. It takes Excel 10 mins just to open the thing.
• Pivot Tables, Excel, Slow Computers, Vodka = Hell
• Excel geeks do it after midnight. With formulas. And pivot tables. That is all. #excelgeeksconcatenate
• I just want to put this Excel workbook on Facebook and Twitter for everyone to admire because I worked so hard on it.
• only language i used to code was VBA within excel. that gets me nowhere. so i need you to point me in the direction as a total n00b
• Not many things beat the agony of a couple of hundred #REF! symbols in a spreadsheet when a few minutes ago there were numbers… #facepalm
• Save changes? What changes? I didn’t make any changes. Stupid Excel

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel Pivot Tables

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Remember to move occasionally, while you’re working on your Excel files, so the lights don’t go out!

• Almost finished Christmas shopping.. there are more ambers & greens than reds on the spreadsheet and I’m even considering a pivot table #sad
• Still slightly shocked that I knew the answer to a mate’s excel formula problem
• After a week of battling with copy/paste issues & Excel repeatedly crashing, I found that the problem was related to Conditional Formatting.
• Hot tea. American Gangster. Excel spreadsheet. #LateNightsEarlyMornings
• Spent the past two hours being given an introduction to programming and writing code for Excel. My brain actually feels frazzled.
• I just spent two hours staring at an Excel workbook with no fewer than 40 worksheets (I’d guess closer to 100) and now my brain is dead.
• As data journalism gets more complex, can’t lose sight of this: There are times when a simple Excel pivot table does the trick.
• I love you, F4 key, for helping me select absolute references in Excel instead of typing the stupid dollar sign in front of each digit.
• Is in a meeting updating an excel spreadsheet. The highlight was a bakewell tart arriving. Enough said ……
• the motion-sensor lights in my office turned off on me once when i was working on the world’s biggest excel spreadsheet…
• When a scientist tells an intern to make an excel graph look pretty, does he mean put a bow on it?
• Spam marketing or not, an invitation to a 3 part webinar on Excel Pivot Tables is just insulting.
• I was just told my Excel formulas are "badass." Not everyone can be a spreadsheet ninja.
• Xmas shopping Step #1: prepare Excel spreadsheet for those receiving gifts – yeah son, I said EXCEL SPREADSHEET #planandexecute lol
• I spent ages last night expanding the structure of the new knitting blog. Created some AWESOME Excel forms. I love Excel! 😀
• Omg for the first time excel actually made a perfect graph to which I don’t have to edit. #THANKU
• With pivot tables and vlookup, I am rapidly approaching Excel Sensei status. Now that’s something to tweet about…
• Hello December! Time to change all Spreadsheet colors to red and green. Excel cannot escape Crimmus.
• Only advice I can give is never work with children, animals or Excel 😉

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Related Links:

• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Conditional Formatting
• Excel Pivot Tables

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If your parents appreciated that gift of an Excel spreadsheet, maybe everyone would like one for Christmas. Think of the money you’ll save in gift spending! And it’s better than a fruitcake, right?

• I just merged EVERY cell on an excel spreadsheet and in doing so, created a new #art movement.
• when in order to be a good friend, you have to pretend that you are interested in pie charts… and excel programming… #relationships
• I love creating charts in Excel and copying into PPT. Crashes both programmes every time. Neat trick
• Ever try looking at an excel spreadsheet created in Hebrew format? Working right to left is making my brain hurt.
• Our xmas this year has a budget. I’m being super efficient & have made an Excel spreadsheet complete with equations to ensure I stick to it!
• Thank God for Excel 2010’s recover unsaved files feature! Saved me redoing an hour’s work.
• Two xmases ago, gave parents excel spreadsheet of title/isbn/format/brief description. Tabbed. Childrens/Nonfiction/Fiction. #booknerd
• I’m waiting on the financial report. I’ll only accept an Excel doc over 100 kb. Fancy colorful pie chart must be included.
• Waking up in the middle of the night thinking your pillow is a cell in an Excel spreadsheet is never a good sign…
• Best outcome of a meeting ever – Someone else is going to do all the hard work because I’m "too messy on excel" #win
• everybody is on twitter now excpect the teacher, he is making excel charts 😀
• Creating a pie chart in Excel appears to be beyond my capabilities.
• Some of the formulae in the Excel fanfiction crossover chronolgy spreadsheet have gotten so complex I’m afraid to play with them.
• need an Excel chart with hard data by lunch 🙂
• Can you put that list in an excel sheet please Boss: "No, Im NOT going to do it, I don’t like excel!" – more like you cant do it
• Using the pivot table wizard all day at work is just making me want to watch Harry Potter.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel VBA

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If math and Satan had a child, and named it Excel, would it enjoy the music of Fleetwood Mac?

• If I printed out the excel spreadsheet, I would have a nice sized blanket
• How does Excel know everything before I do? Were already finishing each others sentences. Is this what learning feels like? Or love?
• Today I will mostly be copying and pasting information from an old excel spreadsheet to the new version of the spreadsheet. Thug life.
• Looking at Excel spread sheets all day is surprisingly incredibly tiring. Also, Excel is the love child of math and Satan.
• Fleetwood mac and excel spreadsheets; the perfect combo for an afternoon in work.
• If it takes you 6+ hours to create a spreadsheet, you probably shouldn’t be using Excel to begin with. And don’t make it my problem.
• Everyone knows the older person at work that asks every question about Excel, Word, etc… Do your best not to become that person…
• If your Big Visible Charts are always shared via emailed Excel files, you might be an agile redneck. #putitonthewall
• Wow! Two insanely busy work days in a row and I’m beginning to see Excel grids in people’s faces! O.o
• I feel bad for people who don’t get to make Excel graphs. They’re so fun and colourful that it seems wrong to be paid for that work.
• Having a massive finance geek day using pivot tables w several hundred thousand rows of data. Riveting… If only excel would stop crashing!
• Open Excel spreadsheet…go make coffee. They don’t call it big data for nothin’!! 😉
• I’m bloody starving. This isn’t helping the pressures of copying and pasting some information from an old spreadsheet to the new version.
• Since I’m an excel ninja I get free overtime? I’m not sure how that works, but my boss is the one giving the orders, so alrighty then!
• I was really not made to ever make charts or use Excel. My brain just doesn’t work like this.
• I REFUSE to make an Excel sheet. I’ll hand-code CSV instead. #LikeADev
• My boss bought me a book. Excel for Dummies. Heh. Subtle.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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It’s tempting to indulge in treats during the holiday season, so be careful with those office cakes, and Christmas cookies. Your doctor might like to see a chart of your bonbon consumption, along with your weight chart.

• Who wants to give me a fabulous new job? I can type like a demon & WILL make office cakes once a week! I also love a good Excel spreadsheet!
• im making an excel spreadsheet and graph to show my Dr. tomorrow, I feel A. like a dork and B. like a problem patient
• I love my mac. I miss excel. Numbers can suck it.
• I hate excel. Partly because it is the worst program on earth and partly because it makes me feel stupid. But mostly the first one.
• Everyone at work likes the new version of the Excel spreadsheet I designed! #happynerd
• Me to older boss: Anything you can do (in Excel) I can do better; I can do anything (in Excel) better than you! Boss: No you can’t! Oh wait.
• How does Excel know to crash exactly right before you are about to save a past hour’s worth of work?
• MS Excel, you are useful and evil all at once. Graphs, I am sick of you. Stop being all… graphy and… useful. #ShouldHaveBeenaLitMajor
• Finally getting around to putting my weight chart on excel. Been hand tracking it since January 2010.
• Going to have a day of doing Excel work. Including pie charts and some others with complicated names. #ThisIsNotTheLife
• i accidentally hit the freeze pain button on my excel spreadsheet and went into full panic mode for like 20 minutes O_O
• I have just deleted a years worth of data out of an excel spreadsheet and there is no way I can get it back #lifefail #istgonnabeoneofthose.
• Um… Finally made my payslip spreadsheet. According to my Excel skillz, I’m owed $2013.9125. #drinksonme?
• What did people do before excel? Pivot table, I love you.
• Redoing this document for the FOURTH TIME because Excel formulas are the devil. If it doesn’t work this time I’m Hulk-smashing my PC. #rage
• I’m busy reviewing the Excel spreadsheet of Christmas cookie baking dates. Today – honey caramels or bonbons? Decisions, decisions…

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• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Weight Loss Tracker

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If you hear a guy “tutting” on the train, it’s probably because he’s seen your boss using a calculator to check the Excel totals.

• Why do Excel and I always fall out when it comes to making graphs?
• Aahh my graph looks good! Not bad for a girl who hasnt used microsoft excel in 3 years (Y)
• Ok, seriously what is the point of a pivot table? #excel
• That awkward moment when you make an excel spreadsheet to track your #christmas spending #nerdwestern
• when i present my birthday idea to my parents.. i’m gonna need a powerpoint, excel spreadsheet of expenses and my report card.
• After analyzing 3000 lines sidebyside in Excel for the past 4hrs, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am indubitabley correct in my work. =|
• Grandma just spent the last 5 minutes telling me about her excel spreadsheet of dancing with the stars scores.. what the hell?! #retirement
• Finally defeated the evil Excel Pivot Table.
• I have just seen my manager sitting in front of an excel spreadsheet, manually adding things up with a calculator. Where do I begin? :/ #fb
• Same. I have to admit – I didn’t even know what a pivot table was until I Google’d it.
• I wondered who that guy was, tutting as I did my spreadsheet work on the train this morning …
• Is it bad to make my Christmas and birthday list on an excel worksheet? Nahhh. #loser
• 9 year-old just presented me with an Excel spreadsheet of everything he wants for Xmas including RRPs! Oh the times they are a-changing!
• Working towards my #Excel Geek Badge today, is it wrong to get excited about formulas (especially when they work)?
• You know, in my 20+ years of Windows experience, I’ve never used a “pivot table”. I’m trying it now, WISH ME LUCK.
• Excel 2007 does not have the “Show Pivot Fields” feature. Its “PivotChart Filter Pane” does not show values. Can’t label chart. Total #FAIL
• Having never really used them, pivot tables in #excel seemed complex. Turns out to be pretty intuitive. #gofigure

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• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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How did you spend the weekend? Entering research data into an Excel file? Writing a life plan? Learning a new language? Or just hoping they’d cancel work for today?

• yes. Dont you know you can make anything official with an excel chart?
• i’d appreciate if work will be cancelled tomorrow. not in the mood to do excel and statistics. i need a break.
• Awkward Developer Moments : Executed an endless loop and if I kill it, I loose my 30 minutes code 🙁 #VBA #Excel
• I’ve spent more time fiddling with colors and borders and inserting cells than actual typing. I love excel.
• Teaching myself another language with the help of an Excel spreadsheet. What?
• Only my father would create an excel spreadsheet of our movie collection…#ocd
• ……I have a feeling I’ll be making an excel spreadsheet into the wee hours of the morning tonight.
• I am having a (regressed?) excel attack; I am making a serious grown-up in writing life plan for 2012 on a spreadsheet.
• my boss just asked me how to print from MS Excel #really
• Only when you put your expenses into the cold grid of an Excel spreadsheet do you realise you’re spending £35 every month on TV you hate.
• I’m addicted to Microsoft Excel. If I can made a spreadsheet about anything, I will.
• Beer being drank, Excel spreadsheet up and data being researched, entered and compared. Yeah I know how to spend a Saturday night…
• Conducted another tutorial in how 2 use excel, create graphs/exhibits 4 dad (again 🙂 He retires in 5 yrs yet he still climbs the ladder..
• secret to Excel is to look thoughtful, mash your keyboard for 5 mins then Save File. Blame File Corruption when your boss opens it
• I can interpret legal regulations in 3 different languages… Yet I’m finding it hard to work with excel and sometimes word. #uselessmuch ?
• I LOVE excel. It’s a Virgo thing.
• I have 6 too many excel spreadsheets open for a Sunday afternoon. Seriously. #Work

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• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Project Management
• Excel VBA

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Let the Christmas shopping begin, the teachers showing the youngsters how to get started. Even Santa is using Excel, and a few pivot tables, if you can believe these tweets.

• My pivot table is lying to me!!!
• You know how screwed up markets are when you have to change the lower limits on your excel graph axes because the index went way lower.
• ‘Xmas Shopping’ in Y4 Maths. Showed kids how to use Excel, add/copy formulas, use funcs, formatting, work out % etc, They loved it!
• When Excel says it can’t load more than 32,000 points in to a chart, that doesn’t mean "go ahead and make a line graph of the first 31,999"
• A technocrat is a just another word for a bureaucrat who knows how to work an Excel spreadsheet sufficiently to cook the books.
• Ahhhh graphs made using Excel are so pretty and perfect – it makes me happy #beingserious #nerdytweet #littlethings #dontjudge
• I’ve just heard from Santa. Apparently, he’s making a list and checking it twice… he’s got an Excel spreadsheet with pivot tables in! :()
• Not sure why these guys insist on using Excel if they have no clue how to work on it #worktweet
• I love excel. Never had a problem with it. Except their over-zealous response to a circular reference.
• The best part about being Amish is never having to use an Excel spreadsheet.
• Someone just complimented the "pretty colors" on my Excel spreadsheet. That wasn’t exactly the compliment that I was going for. #hmmph
• Don’t know about you but about this time of year I like to compile a pivot table of all Christmas beer invites, to maximise drinking.
• 1. Click to close Excel instead of individual worksheet 2. Click No to discard changes on worksheet you’ve been working on 3. Curse loudly
• I have tried to hand-write this chart 6 times this morning. How many tries does it take in Excel? 1. #LostTheBasics #DigitallyLiterate
• My boss is 54 and using excel right now for the very first time in his life. Thank god I’m leaving in 20 minutes. This could take all night

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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Have you recovered from your enormous holiday dinner? Here’s a light version of the Excel Twitter report, that you can read when you’ve finished shopping.

• Building a contacts worksheet in #Excel reminds me to tell ever one to use Data Validation it takes a little bit long to set up but worth it
• What kind of pre-collaborative world is this where only one person can edit this Excel spreadsheet at a time?
• OMG I love it when VLOOKUP works!!! Excel magic, I feel like a magician!
• I need a way to analyze my level of stress. I would like an app that graphs it to an excel file – somebody get on that please.
• I just reached the end of an Excel spreadsheet. The end.
• You should try making more pie charts in Excel and see if that’s a good compromise.
• …revising for an excel exam tomo…boss told me today "I WILL NOT BE HAPPY IF U DON’T PASS!"…no pressure thennnnnn!!!!!
• I’m bringing sexy back! No, don’t be silly. I’m itemising receipts in an Excel spreadsheet. Wait, I was right first time!
• Wow – geek alert….I’ve started my first finance spreadsheet! Oh god….when did I become a pensioner?!
• I love when MS Excel warns me that there’s been a ‘loss of fidelity’. It reminds me not to take our relationship for granted.
• Excel, you don’t like having to process 16,000 data points into a log chart? Deal with it. WOMAN UP! #cmon
• It really irritates me when people have loud conversations on their mobiles on trains. Jeeeez I don’t care about your spreadsheet problems!
• Africa has so many data points that trying to graph it breaks Excel. This is such a Goddessdamned nuisance–I’ll have to stick with the USA.
• my business card should actually read "Excel Expert" or "Master of data manipulation" or "That guy that makes his boss look real good"

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• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Data Validation
• Excel VLOOKUP Function

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Happy Thanksgiving! Even on the holidays, Excel doesn’t have a chance to rest. It’s busy helping you prepare dinner, and cooking up your list for Black Friday shopping.

• I love that my Thxgvg shopping list is Excel spreadsheet I can print each year – no hours of recipe research, no stress. Tradition rocks.
• I’ll be budgeting my gifts to family / friends on an Excel spreadsheet– LIKE THE BOSSES!
• Only my friends would make an excel sheet complete with pie chart for Thanksgiving dishes. #amazing
• My uncle made a spreadsheet of what he wanted everyone to bring for thanksgiving #organized #overboard?
• Side effect of legal career: Thanksgiving menu & shopping list are organized in an Excel spreadsheet. #typeApersonality
• Made an Excel spreadsheet to organize Thanksgiving shopping list, prep, cooking schedule, etc. #ocd #thisiswhyimsingle #thanksgiving
• just need to get through this stupid excel class and then hopping on a train to go home!! #thanksgiving
• It just really ain’t Thanksgiving without an Excel spreadsheet filled with passive aggressive holiday duties.
• I just put everyone I have to get Xmas cards for into an Excel spreadsheet. Gifting is on workbook2. Who am I, Monica Gellar? #NotTopical
• If you saw my four-column Excel Spreadsheet organizing all my cooking times for tomorrow you’d either be impressed, or sad. Probably sad.
• thanks!Bag is not packed but I’ve an awesome excel spreadsheet that tells me what to pack…if only it could do it for me!x
• Devastated I can’t find my color-coordinated Thanksgiving Grocery list Excel Spreadsheet that’s organized grocery store department layout…
• Gettin in the spirit of Thanksgiving by cookin some very delicious lookin pie charts in Excel. “Hand over a piece of Q1 profit pie will ya?”

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Holiday Dinner Planner

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If you just need to create hyperlinks, Excel might not be the best tool. It’s great for counting kids though – if you know how to do the COUNT formula!

• Let me finish this project… I’m becoming an excel pivot table expert. Exciting huh?
• making spreadsheet for my dad. I hope he hangs it on his fridge when I’m done with it! Trying 2 work out which mobile system willB best 4him
• The joys of Gantt charts, eh? I’ve just solved an Excel formula problem in my forecast spreadsheet 😉 Exciting stuff, eh? x
• Work computer is having to reloading my excel spreadsheet every time I switch to it. #rageagainstthemachine
• new migraine medicine + ten hours of excel spreadsheet gazing + past my bed time = onset of delirium #helpineedsomebody
• Using a shared Excel workbook like a grownup version of passing notes in class #mature
• It is way to freaking early to be dealing with an excel spreadsheet. #Procrastinator
• Someone needs to create a spreadsheet object that you can use anytime on your desktop without firing up a whole application like excel.
• Just received an Excel spreadsheet that is formatted like a document whose sole purpose is to communicate a hyperlink. #internetfail
• Just because you don’t know how to work excel does not mean my complex spreadsheet doesn’t work. Do not bad mouth something I worked hard on
• Anytime I’m feeling cocky, I attempt a bar graph in Excel. I’m immediately humbled.
• Afternoon of Stupid. Wrestling with Excel over a count formula I know I know how to do. Grargh.
• I thing I should get married to an excel spreadsheet….. It’s legal right???
• I created a spreadsheet of ratings for 19 Kids &Counting. Excel automatically changed number each line to ultimately be 31 Kids & Counting.
• I have NEVER had a problem with Excel until today when naturally I have an obscene amount of data to simply divide and it won’t do it #anger
• as much as i love maths, editing zillion of numbers in excel sheet is very torturing. T_T

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel Holiday Dinner Planner

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It’s not an Excel obsession, it’s a way of life! And you really need Excel this week, as you get ready for Thanksgiving. If you don’t have your spreadsheet set up yet, you can download my Excel Holiday Dinner Planner.

• There must be a word for excel obsession. It’s a real problem that affects millions of Americans every year.
• Just made an Excel spreadsheet of my work schedule for the next year. Yes. I said year.
• I think I just reviewed my one billionth spreadsheet row this year, if I review another billion I get the classic Excel 95 version for free
• Excel just gave me a warning message about a ‘minor loss of fidelity’. It’s a bad start to the week when your spreadsheet cheats on you.
• I made an excel spreadsheet with all of my friends on it and everyday it randomly selects someone who I’ll be a total dick to
• okkkaayy, i hate excel. it’s pathetic and stupid, but my teacher told me i’m gonna have to use it eventually. ready to leave
• Just realized Microsoft Word and Excel got deleted in the process… that might be a problem
• The BCS is a made up thing. It’s like unicorns. It’s three guys with an Excel spreadsheet. Seriously, it’s fake. How did it become real?
• Whew. Thanksgiving timeline finally set & daily action item list started. Wanted to put it into Excel or make a Gantt chart… Too nerdy???
• this new found OCD i discovered when these boxes didn’t line up on this excel worksheet <<<<<<<<<<<<<< !
• The PowerPivot function in #Excel is blowing my mind right now. I love you Excel. I love you soooo much.
• according to my excel spreadsheet formula (c3÷d4*b6) iowa state is playing houston for the national title
• i am a boss of excel spreadsheets and planning holiday luncheons.
• Whoever thought that violet and cyan made good cell backgrounds for a financial analysis spreadsheet should have their Excel taken away.
• Based solely on how well I’m putting these charts together right now, I may or may not remove "Excel Proficiency" from my resume.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel Holiday Dinner Planner

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Excel can lead to strange behaviour, and stupid questions, but you probably knew that already.

• It doesn’t count as an infographic if it is a chart that someone created in Excel. #fail
• Tonight was the first time in my life I think I’ve ever felt computer illiterate. I don’t know how to make a graph in excel anymore…
• The office is reeling today from the revelation that one of our account managers has an excel spreadsheet for Xmas…now that’s organised!
• wonders if you still love him even though he is the kind of person who wakes up early on a Saturday morning to take an Excel class. #fb
• Putting together an Excel spreadsheet with addresses for Christmas cards. Why haven’t I done this before?
• Just becoming a boss on these IF statements in excel at work today. Wish I knew this in college.
• Wrapping up 12+ hours of Excel spreadsheet copy and pasting at 4am on my day off… sleep is for the weak! #internlife
• I was always told there are no stupid questions, but "Why is my cursor a plus shape in Excel, but nowhere else?" …Come on! Really?
• OH: "Give that boss a pivot table. Bosses love pivot tables…"
• I got asked if I knew what a pivot table was in a job interview once. I thought it was the weirdest question.
• OMG. A co-worker pasted a JPG into an Excel worksheet and e-mailed it.
• Dear Excel, please stop automatically changing the line colours on all of my graphs to brown!
• Excel is possessed… was working on a spreadsheet. Doing a calculation, the fields I was calculating spelled "GABLOT" O.O
• Do you know any tools for creating sexy charts for documents and presentations? They all look Excel-like… boring #charts
• I learned how to use excel pivot charts today. Wish I hadn’t. Head about to explode… POP!

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

Have they ever done an Excel chart sketch on Saturday Night Live? If so, it probably featured Mr. Bill, looking scared!

• I once wrote a neural network that used Excel as a front-end. Now that was a spreadsheet!
• take this excel spreadsheet of the warfield seating chart & make a pretty graphic of it. spreadsheet anything makes my brain hurt so much!
• Okay. So yesterday, I plotted my first line graph, using excel. Now, this is nothing to most of u, but I’m a lawyer, n we avoid numbers!
• never thought I would have to write and code a Macro for excel. This is taking forever >:(
• watching "how to make a bar graph on excel" on youtube. maybe i should’ve taken mrs. warner’s microsoft office class in high school..
• What the hell is a pivot table? Do I need this? *looks around scared hoping no-one will notice Excel ineptitude*
• tired. i made like 5 graphs on excel and the whole document got deleted and i had to do it all again 🙁 now i just want to sleep
• I think excel code is becoming part of my DNA. #reportOverload
• I have started a very complicated Excel Spreadsheet to chart the funniness of SNL. I’ve created a monster.
• Excel, if I ctrl-Z on one spreadsheet, I probably meant for you to undo the latest thing ON THAT WORKSHEET.
• Love that taking the word "true" out of an Excel formula can take my grade from a 39 to a 94. This class is stooopid
• Formatting a spreadsheet so i’ll be tweeting alot. You’ve been warned. Also, I need to take an advanced excel class.
• Dear #Excel, So, you found a problem. Why don’t you tell what is it, don’t you just shut the window, haven’t we been together for years?
• Almost 2 hrs on excel entering data/trying to do these graphs… can’t wait til graduationnnn
• still not finished this this lab report… mainly because i started looking at career choices AND the fact i HATE doing excel graphs!

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA

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If you have an accidental shot of caffeine, you could be up all night, working on Excel charts. Mom and Dad might be willing to help, but don’t phone your sister!

• two people are discussing their favourite excel charts. time to go home
• I love Excel and won’t have a bad word said against it
• to top it off, my boss was telling me i wasnt doing the excel table right even though i did EXACTLY WHAT HE TOLD ME TO DO. #fml
• Hmm, the change in colour palette from Excel ’03 to ’07 has really messed up the look of my spreadsheet.
• Pivot tables, definitely puts you at expert excel user, I thought i was already that when I added the autofit column width button
• my boyfriend just informed me There is no crying in baseball when I complained about my latest excel spreadsheet… : )
• Stayed up too late playing with spreadsheets, there has to be a way to monetize my love of excel.
• my mum and dad are having a serious and heated discussion over what kind of graphs they can do on excel #competitionson
• Let’s get fiscal, fiscaI, wanna get fiscal. Let’s get into fiscal. Let me see your excel chart, your excel chart, let me see the excel chart
• Trying to figure out how much it will cost me to rent a car during Thanksgiving. What’s the easiest way? Excel spreadsheet of course!
• First person in the office… this means I can booty shake to ‘Crazy in Love’ whilst getting my Excel in order. Hurrah!
• who needs sleep when you can stay up all night rereading Oscar Wilde plays and making bogus Excel graphs…oh wait
• Nothing like an excel spreadsheet to counteract an accidental caffeine shot.
• I love my sister to death except when she calls me at 8am for me to help her with excel homework >.<
• Just made an excel spreadsheet do things it has no business doing – and feeling strangely powerful about it. #nerd
• Just received an emailed pdf of a scanned printed excel spreadsheet #scratcheshead
• I’m supposed to do an excel spreadsheet with no given information ….. Cool.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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If Excel lets you down, try some knitting, to help you relax. Or maybe an adult beverage would help – I’ve heard that raspberry beer is tasty.

• I apparently lost my old excel workbook with all of the development data. Time to pull stuff out of my hat.
• My boss is so funny: "if I want to change the text in a box in excel, how do i do it?"
• I’m eating a pudding cup for breakfast while this pivot table refreshes. Because I’m gangster.
• I never thought I would say this, but Excel let me down!! I feel dirty now. On the bright side my code was actually OK… 🙂
• Excel is stupid. If I write 1,2,3 etc and drag down, it fills the rest in. If I do A,B,C etc, it just repeats them. I blame Bill Gates.
• As much as I love excel, why is the designing of the spreadsheet the hardest? Every time I think I have it, I need another column. Ugh.
• Trying to remember how to export a chart from Excel to Word. This is ridiculously complicated for software that’s supposed to be integrated.
• I’m planting if statements all over this spreadsheet. It’s a good day to be a geek!
• Currently converting a text knitting pattern into a chart via Excel. That’s a whole new level of geek for me. #knitting
• Just had a lecture about data analysis for our coursework, I’ve never known so many people to be stunned by the simple Excel graph function!
• Jamming out and trying to make love to Excel in the office. No, Excel is not a code name for anyone.
• Now I am going to enter about 40 inventory items into an excel spreadsheet, because someday I have to pay taxes. Raspberry beer is tasty.
• Whenever my boss walks by, I like to play a little game called "Squint, Point and Say ‘hmmm’ at a Phony Excel Spreadsheet."
• At work today, I updated a spreadsheet for a bit but then the spreadsheet said, "Why do I always have to be up to date? I like retro chic"
• Why does Microsoft Excel feel the need to close every time I copy and paste a chart from it to Powerpoint? Is it bc I’m using a Mac? #bully
• Q: What kind of DJ uses Excel? A: One who wants to be on top of the charts.
• You know you’re desperate when you start looking for Excel how-to videos on youtube :/ #confused #FML

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA

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There are days when real life is no fun, especially if you’re in an advanced Excel class, with a bunch of beginners. Make a few Excel charts, to pass the time.

• I wonder what percentage of #Excel files are actually spreadsheets in the true form? #BinaryBits
• YEAH!!!! After a long battle against those obnoxious numbers and percentage in Excel, I’ve finished all the charts!!!:D
• I love how Excel and PPT bring out the inner designer in people that don’t think about design. #scary
• When I’m bored, I tend to make graphs in Excel. The simple things
• Just made an Excel spreadsheet calculating expenses and stuff for each month REAL LIFE IS NO FUN YOU GUYS, DON’T GRADUATE EVER NEVER EVER
• Davina has opened excel to chart out black Friday sales. It’s getting serious now. #blackfriday
• although to interest me just give me a bike, a pencil and paper or a problem in Excel!
• Made a single giant Excel spreadsheet for the past 5 hours; truly, the life of the mind.
• Excel is a program I am convinced I will never learn how to use. In fact I don’t think I will ever get used to PC’s after 10 years of Mac
• My new supervisor acts like we’re in a classroom. Lady if I didn’t know how to do an excel spreadsheet I wouldnt have gotten hired here
• If you’re a beginner please don’t sign up for advanced excel classes #computergeek
• oh yea…I have an excel spreadsheet with stuff that I check off. Anal I know. It’s the Virgo in me lol
• You think a time traveler would leave proof in an Excel spreadsheet?
• Heh heh. How to win over people who don’t like Excel – demo them our wedding planning workbook! #EasyWin
• I’m going to start basing my life around a Gantt chart. Who knew I was so good at Excel?
• Making this Excel spreadsheet for computer class is starting to get exciting!… Just kidding this really sucks.
• Thought an excel class would teach me new things. 74 minutes into the class an we now know how to undo and save as. #fml

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Project Management

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Yes, everything works better if you organize it in an Excel spreadsheet, especially if there will be 14 people attending. So don’t pay attention to the people who are snickering.

• turn it into a pivot table! whatever you’re doing…
• I keep using Photoshop shortcuts in Excel and Excel shortcuts in Notepad++. It might be time to work on depth of skillset instead of breadth
• Cant run a pivot table correctly. I have never felt so inadequate in my life…. #excelmonkeycardrevoked
• pivot tables and vlookup can save your life when using excel…. yes i’m tweeting about an excel doc. so what. #urjudging
• I knew that Excel spreadsheet of four years of fuel logs would come in handy. I’m totally not-crazy after all!
• Impressed by my sister’s Xmas planning: excel spreadsheet, grocery shopping list, budgets. Slightly OTT but then again there’ll be 14 of us.
• Some1 just called me to complain about the excel spreadsheet I sent them being wrong- all ### where the numbers should be. #Facepalm
• I’ve color-coded an Excel spreadsheet of murders. Its like somebody knifed a rainbow.
• From tomorrow my life will be run via Excel spreadsheet. Budget, fitness regimen, daily routine, chores, to read/to watch, etc. all covered.
• I’m about to reach critical mass of geekery: watching Numb3rs and working on a Doctor Who Excel spreadsheet at the same time.
• Just geeked out after remembering how to do pivot tables and vlookups after a year of excel dormancy. Planner life>analyst life, every time.
• Christmas present planning – Ooooh I love a good excel spreadsheet to organise the festive shopping!
• Have you ever totally lost your motivation at work when you accidentally closed out of a spreadsheet without saving changes? #JustHappened
• Slightly concerned about just how excited my boss has got over the chart we’ve just created in #Excel! #EasilyImpressed
• Yes, I’m using Excel to write my grocery list/spreadsheet. I fail to see why that warrants your snickering #geek
• Know what I did at work today? I printed 7 Excel spreadsheets. I’m an overachiever.

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Related Links:

• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VLOOKUP Function 

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Yes, working with Excel can be dangerous. In addition to the frequent complaints about sore eyes and headaches, you can suffer from spreadsheet shoulder. Be careful out there!

• You know the day has got to be ending soon when you open an Excel spreadsheet and it auto-labels it Book 126
• That’s right Excel charts and functions…I showed you who’s boss!! Boom. #mathswag
• Dad gets a little bit too excited by making graphs on excel…
• There is something to be said about those who take the time to make an excel spreadsheet look nice.
• Just completed online course for excel pivot tables, yep still awake
• Making an excel spreadsheet for all my classes making grade calculators. #toomuch?
• I reached a new level of nerdiness tonight… I made a graph on excel just for fun #ineedhelp #embarrassedtweet
• You know when you’re populating an excel spreadsheet and you over-complicate your formula. I’ve been doing that for the last hour.
• Look, so I just used Excel to keep score for rummy, what’s your problem?
• taught myself how to make excel pie charts now slightly obsessed making them
• Any excuse really, but yes, I’m MS Excel stupid level 2.
• When excel "encounters a problem and needs to close" and you have 19 documents open, I think it’s time to go to bed. #goodnight
• Composing a new Excel doc is really not where I wanna be at when I’m due to leave work in an hour. #spreadsheethell
• Oooooh right right. There it is. That important Excel document…the one I saved as spreadsheet.xlsx.
• A teacher at this conference said, "so there is like a graph maker in Excel?" Oh dear.
• I have the classic symptoms of ‘spreadsheet shoulder’ reminiscent of my data input days back in 2001-2008. Excel is bad for my health.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Functions

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That tweeter makes it sound like using Excel to avoid project work is a bad thing! It’s more productive than sleeping or making coffee, right?

• I have to say that being neck-deep in a giant excel spreadsheet full of formulas and color coding is one of my fav places to be. #imanerd
• avoiding a project for work by making an excel sheet to chart the progress of said project. #efficiency
• In the future you should be able to talk to Excel & tell it how you want your graph,it would certainly save me a lot of time
• For the love of god, ALL I want to do is have custom colors in this stupid Excel file. #MSOfficeisevil
• I will be in this one excel spreadsheet pivot-tabling my brains out for the rest of my life. HOW DO I FORMAT THIS?
• accountant’s pet peeve #234: working off an excel spreadsheet that looks like it was created by a preschooler #cringing #fb
• I just learned how to make pivot tables in excel and now I’m kind of addicted to it? I don’t think I’m normal.
• Right now to make these graphs… which means Excel… which means DISASTER!!! :S lol! Xx
• Falling asleep is pretty hard, they should teach this at school NOT making pie charts with excel. My secretary can do that for me.
• The old "We built this massive table in Word but actually need in Excel" trick. Why does it always end up being MY problem?
• Blargh. A single dropped cell in my giant orders spreadsheet has sent orders the wrong way ’round the globe. Ack.
• *goes to make a coffee whilst computer loads excel spreadsheet*
• If I can open Excel then I will give my self another 15 mins. Looking at pie charts reminds me of pies; and that makes me hungry.
• For those of you who do office work, is there anything more glorious than getting an Excel document to submit to your will?
• Has anyone ever done a really sick rap with "wrap text" or any other Excel lingo? There’s a lot to work with.
• I love locking Excel spreadsheets at work. I’m so cruel.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel Project Management

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Even if you were very bad in a past life, you shouldn’t have to manually de-dupe 3500 lines of data in Excel. Maybe some big kid algebra would solve the problem.

• Take a few days off work and I lose all of my job-related skills except how to alt-tab back to excel when I hear footsteps.
• Note to self – next time when someone prints out hardcopy of excel spreadsheet, demand they give you the actual spreadsheet file
• I need to learn how to do a mail merge and I need to learn how to do charts in Excel. Tonight.
• making birthday dinner plans has to be 1 of the messiest things to do….i got my excel spreadsheet helpin me tho
• I had a nerd meltdown today. Excel won’t do what I want. Curse you microsoft for making charts so crap. Bring back Excel 2. #nerd #excel
• So i can crack almost any PC software, Design websites etc but i can’t draw a darn graph in excel. Shame
• Sent out an excel spreadsheet. A co-worker printed it, filled it out by hand, scanned it to a pdf, and emailed it back. #fml
• Excel is refusing to run. That means I don’t have to work, right? What do you mean, I should just restart my computer? Dammit.
• #Thatakwardmoment, when your boss asks you for a graph on excel, and you have no idea, how to start…any suggestions????
• There’s nothing like de-duping names in a 3500 line spreadsheet to make you lose the will to live #someonedistractme
• When I decided to do business at uni I didn’t think I would have to create the most complicated spreadsheet ever! #Stressed
• So far this week, time spent in Excel outnumbers hours writing code by a factor of infinity. I must have been very bad in a past life.
• You know you have #Twitter #problem when you see the error #VALUE! in #Excel and think it’s a trending topic…
• Why do elaborate excel spreadsheets follow me wherever I work?
• yikes. Those are brutal. Sumifs I can handle, but charts = wrestling match. Excel always wins lol
• Hey stupid intrucstions, quit telling me to construct a formula doing percentages on excel! Idk how to do that!
• I had to use big kid algebra all day at work. Apparently Excel cant do everything for me. #MathMakesMyHeadHurt

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Functions
• Excel SUM Functions

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Can you code? And do you know how to use a pivot table? Me too! We should get "I ♥ Spreadsheets mugs".

• Dear Microsoft Excel, Creating a simple bar graph should not be this difficult. Sincerlely, #pullingoutmyhair
• I love complex excel classes. I love complex excel classes. Microsoft excel is my friend. #forcedpositivethinking
• All people who work in an office should take a course "What Not To Use Excel For"
• 2 hours later and I’ve finally managed to create one decent graph using Microsoft Excel. -___-
• Over 100 pages of data between some 22 different excel files. Only 2 graphs make it to a presentation of your findings. #EngineeringProblems
• So far we ate popcorn, made a safety video, and learned about Excel pivot tables. One hour down… three to go…
• excel pivot table hell. powerful, but infuriating
• I don’t mean to brag or anything, but if there were a Miss Excel Spreadsheet prize, I’d totally win.
• i dont think people understand my love for excel… its like, the best thing in the world.
• I am helping someone with an Excel spreadsheet tonight. Now to the uneducated that Tweet may come across as boring.
• So my wife buys me a coffee mug with "I love spreadsheets" for work. Now I’m getting requests from workmates for Excel tutition. Just great.
• By ‘Excel spreadsheet’ do you actually mean excel spreadsheet? #hopingitsaeuphemismandhesnotthatboring
• Who rocks the spreadsheet? I rock the spreadsheet. I PWN Excel. Dirty data trembles and flees at the approach of my cursor. #imtoosexy4myjob
• Really love missing out one piece of data in a spreadsheet, which throws off about a million other things. Y U SO MEAN EXCEL?
• When did the thought that everyone uses Microsoft office become so popular? No I cannot open your Excel spreadsheet.
• I pretty much assume that anyone who knows how to use a pivot table can’t code.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel VBA

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If you study computers for 7 years, and can’t make an Excel chart, your accountant will not be pleased. The Spreadsheet Queen will be disappointed too.

• my job title should just be "Spreadsheet Queen", and I could blast music and wear what I want as I create magic in Excel.
• Wow. I just found a budget spreadsheet I wrote in 2006 (projected out to 2012) and it’s totally spot-on. And it was written pre-kid, in NYC!
• I’m gonna go home and make a spreadsheet so epic that no one will know what to do
• It’s amazing how satisfying it is to really nail an Excel problem.
• Tech guys here at work mentioned Gandalf in reference to Excel wizards. They would.
• Whomever added the "Page Layout" view option to Excel, A SPREADSHEET PROGRAM, should be fed to the wolves.
• I can work on a spreadsheet or sit here and watch videos online. Guess which I will probably choose.
• The artsy side of me made a bracelet tonight, the accountant side made an excel workbook to keep track of my inventory costs…
• Ok… one guy just walked into my office to borrow my calculator so that he can work on his Excel spreadsheet #CantMakeThisStuffUp
• I can’t make a graph on excel. Even after doing computers as a subject. for 7 years #SomeFactsAboutMe
• Just taught someone via text message how to leverage an Excel pivot table. If you can’t teach something via text, you don’t know it.
• A spreadsheet based on faulty assumptions is a spreadcheat.
• Today I made a clustered, stacked bar chart in Excel. …which doesn’t actually exist in Excel. 😀 #trickerywin
• I didn’t bother to spend 3 days making a spreadsheet with all of my income and expenses this year. My accountant is Not Pleased.
• I wish there’s a Siri for MS Excel. Siri, create pivot table. Siri, sort data. Siri, text to columns. Siri, break links.
• For the first time in my life, I’m actually making those little excel charts with my schedule on it. It’s depressing me.

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Related Links:

• Cluster Stack Chart
• Excel Pivot Tables
• Excel Templates

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Be careful! If you switch your wedding planner spreadsheet from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007, you might have to change the colour of the bridesmaids’ dresses.

• It grinds my gear when excel charts aren’t consistent.
• Who needs breakfast when you have lab reports & Microsoft Excel? #FML
• Who knew one excel spreadsheet could evoke: MASS HYSTERIA #collegelife
• Youtube won’t work & I’m relying on it to teach me how to use excel. This is not good, esp since I’m going to work in 20 mins.
• My dad made me an excel spreadsheet of all the prices of the colleges I have considered, it is very helpful. My dad is so smart 🙂
• Making a spreadsheet on Excel has to be the boringest thing in the world. N yes boringest is a word now
• Why wouldn’t they just make the same colors for Excel 2003 & 2007? I honestly have to re-do my whole workbook to make it match??
• I need to make an inventory of what’s in my closet. Thank God I know how to work Excel.
• Jusy prepped up my Christmas shopping list for this year. Love my Excel spreadsheet organisation #ocd
• i would do it now but trying to throw together an excel spreadsheet at 2AM is not a good idea even if it won’t take me long fully awake
• I keep track of everything I search for via an excel spreadsheet. I would like to see everyone else’s spreadsheets please.
• Laptop won’t let me plot a graph with 1000 data points. I hate all forms of technology and excel.
• I built a pivot table today that crashed Excel. Do I win a prize or something?
• This Hen night planning now has an Excel spreadsheet. Bridesmaiding just got serious.
• My mum created an excel spreadsheet to keep on top of her Christmas shopping. It’s password protected. Nawhh.
• On the train, a man hidden under a large Windows laptop. Empty Excel worksheet. Hands hovering. Stuck in time.

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Related Links:

• Excel Chart Utilities
• Excel Christmas Planner
• Excel Pivot Tables

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