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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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?
Are bosses really fooled by colourful Excel sheets? Do professors change grades based on Excel spreadsheet arguments? Maybe the Internet knows the answers.
Remember, you can colour the sheet tabs in your Christmas gift workbook, to make it extra exciting!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
Remember to move occasionally, while you’re working on your Excel files, so the lights don’t go out!
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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 can lead to strange behaviour, and stupid questions, but you probably knew that already.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
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.
Do you know what an Excel pivot table is, and can you can make the complex charts that your boss needs? If not, bring donuts, for some job security.