Excel Twitter 20111105

imageNice to see that professors are keeping things classy in the Excel classroom. Their students, including Jim Class, must be wiping away tears of laughter.

  • Just e-mailed someone "I’LL REORDER THE ROWS IN THE EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND LET YOU KNOW." Some things shouldn’t be shouted. Stupid caps-lock.
  • the power of the pivot table. tears are being shed in the room at the time that could have been saved over the past 3 years…
  • I have broken down crying at 4AM because of Microsoft Excel and stupid budget spreadsheets.
  • I have to make a bar graph on the population of fishes on excel.
  • A colleague sat for 10 minutes telling me there was no way of solving my problem with Excel. I solved it. #StickItToTheMan
  • I come from a long line of Excel-men. Tragically, my uncle was killed when, during a complicated formula, his pivot table collapsed.
  • haha, no problem. Between me and my mom, we’ve got excel tricks covered.
  • You know what I hate right now? Excel. That’s my current hate.
  • Excel thinks this spreadsheet was created in January 1600. #Elizabethanspreadsheets
  • Literally just burst into tears "Excel has encountered a problem" "Repair could not be done" Whole afternoons work GONE! *wipestears*
  • The guy in front of me is complaining about a spreadsheet with 250 rows. Get back to me when you work with data so large it crashes Excel.
  • How to look stupid: use Excel as a database
  • HELLO! I’m at work, toiling in the Excel-mines, singing my song of quiet hope. That’s how things are going.
  • After taking a 3-hour Excel pivot table class today, I’m very bitter that I didn’t do this way earlier in my career. What a time-saver!
  • My prof just used the fake names "Ivona Tinkle", "Hugh Jass", and "Jim Class" in an excel spreadsheet.

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Excel Twitter 20111104

image When you finish your Excel charts for homework, please start working on the bus timetable report. It should be colour coded, but please, don’t make it orange.

  • So far, my new position at work has taught me how completely overrated Excel spreadsheets are.
  • It took me two days to figure out how to make this chart in Excel. Homework can now resume.
  • On my way to my Excel course. Am about to become spreadsheet whiz rather than duffer. Might be expecting too much.
  • Okay…like 3 minutes ago I remembered how to do formulas in spreadsheet and have just blanked out and remember nothing
  • Always save your work before leaving for the day. You never know when Excel is going to throw up all over your computer. #nftc
  • I woke up last night from a nightmare. All I remember is it involved a haunted Excel spreadsheet. #NerdDreams
  • No, u don’t need a bank to convince you if you can afford that car or home. A simple Excel spreadsheet and honesty will do.
  • I don’t even want to know how many excel sheets I’ve worked on today. I’d moan but I secretly love organising them with colour coding
  • I think bus timetables should publish the mean and standard deviation of the wait time. They could work it out in Excel.
  • Tonight I heroically helped my son to create a chart using Excel. He was impressed that I could do that. #SoWasI
  • Some people see an Excel spreadsheet with figures in it, I see A TSUNAMI OF PANIC heading towards me
  • I think we should be able to commit to sending replies in the form of sonnets embedded in an lotus 123 spreadsheet ๐Ÿ™‚
  • I don’t know how to change the title of a legend on a graph on excel and I want to cry
  • Spent past 28 hours working on an excel spreadsheet. Glad I can now manually count sheep in my sleep. #REF
  • I went to art school to be a designer, but here I am 10 years later managing inane feedback in an Excel spreadsheet. #ItsCalledWorkNotFun
  • You work like a maniac on a spreadsheet and the system shuts down without the excel being saved! #WorstThatCouldHappen
  • made my excel graph and not to toot my own horn, but its awesome…and orange! ๐Ÿ™‚

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Excel Twitter 20111103

imageIf your Excel error cost the company millions, it might be time to start shopping โ€“ for a new job!

  • I don’t always read fiction, but when I do it’s a spreadsheet with timelines in a developer meeting. #fb
  • Boss demands that I spreadsheet in word instead of excel #workinghardernotsmarter
  • Praise the Excel gods for VLOOKUP. Work day would have taken 16 hours today without it
  • Oh my god! I just discovered pivot tables in excel. This makes my life SO much easier. SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW! CAPITAL LETTERS! EXCLAMATION!
  • ARG! I know I can sort this damn pivot table by French months – I’ve done it before – I just don’t remember HOW!
  • I hate it when my brother plays games on this computer! NOW WHERE IS MY EXCEL SPREADSHEET?!?!
  • Leaving at 5 or when I hit line 3500 on this spreadsheet. Whichever comes first.
  • I am so anal about Excel. How hard is it to make a pretty spreadsheet??? I am totally serious ๐Ÿ™‚
  • Excel can be fun. I made a working version of Battleships the other day. Can’t say it was my most productive work-day though…
  • This girl made her shopping list in a excel spreadsheet.
  • It’s not boringly making a spreadsheet, it’s playing Microsoft Excel!
  • stupid move of the day- finishing my excel test, going to print, and accidently exiting instead, deleting everything #imsuchanidiot
  • #youknowyouresinglewhen You’re showing off an Excel chart you created to calculate your non-existent finances.
  • so i have just figured out how to use microsoft excel, and have successfully done my graphs… essay still not done,
  • That article has so many graphs and excel boxes and statistics. You must be in heaven
  • Figured out today I am indirectly responsible for the company losing about 1.5 Million in future revenues. Oops! Stupid excel!
  • Excel spreadsheet just told me if I happen to keep up my current rate, I’d finish my #nanowrimo novel on Nov. 8. Don’t see that happening ๐Ÿ™‚

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Excel Twitter 20111102

imageWhat’s the craziest thing your co-workers have done in Excel? Or do they spend their days doing tedious work on charts and complaining about your data?

  • Today I finally worked out how to make pivot tables in Excel, and more importantly, why.
  • Wondering what kind of idiot sends text in a spreadsheet on a flashy yellow background…
  • A coworker of mine prints a spreadsheet by taking screenshots of Excel, pastes them into Word, and then prints that new document. #truestory
  • I hate Excel. And having to make 1739405 graphs #monotonous
  • Coworker: I think there is something wrong with your data. I created a pivot table and I couldn’t match your numbers. Me: GASP
  • Just lost an hour of the most tedious work I have ever done. Thanks excel. Love you too.
  • I did some #Excel training today. I know this is sad, but I now love PivotTables. They are so cool – easy to do and very powerful.
  • Try using pivot tables in Excel. Whenever I ask people at work for help they tell me to pivot.
  • I need to step up my pivot table game #corporatelife
  • Being epically defeated by graphs on MS Excel… I haven’t done these since primary school D=
  • One of the greatest things in life is getting an excel function to work after hours of frustration.
  • I just clapped my hands in excitement over creating a spreadsheet for chirstmas gift ideas. I love excel!
  • Nooooooooooo my computer has crashed and the spreadsheet thats taken over my life was open. Please be ok little spreadsheet.
  • DOES ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO WORK OUT THE FORMULAR OF NUMBERS ON EXCEL – I got no clue.
  • In the Excel worksheet I’m looking at now, I have 1.3 million cells full of formulae. Excel 2003 is handling it admirably.
  • My boss was shocked by how little I knew about Excel. "At University they didn’t teach you this!?"
  • I just made a photo collage in Excel!, "It’s not the first time I’ve done it!", "I like using Excel for a lot of things!"-Real work quotes

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Excel Twitter 20111101

Was the original VisiCalc program smaller than a phone icon? How does it compare to Excel? Those third graders could make a chart, to show the difference.

  • Just about to create an Excel chart of my monetary expenses to work out what I can actually afford. HOW OLD AND BORING AM I?!
  • Time consuming, brain power eating, nerve destroying #Excel assignment…..arrrr
  • Is it too early to work on my 2012 AFL stats spreadsheet? Don’t answer, it was a rhetorical question – I’ve already started! #excited #nerd
  • Would save me so much time if Excel pivot table filters could say =[cell_ref] rather than choose from a list.
  • I now have a fully functioning #NaNoWriMo progress spreadsheet. This is the kind of thing I do on a morning.
  • Loved teaching 3rd graders how to create graphs using excel. Here’s hoping they created another @ home maybe even taught mom or dad…
  • There is no problem in life that can’t be solved with Microsoft Excel and a glass of Merlot
  • In the digital age, you spend twice as long trying to track a wrong formula in a spreadsheet as you would doing the whole thing by hand. =P
  • Cut, paste, delete, sort and filter, insert formulas, v-lookup, pivot tables…protect worksheet and done #mycurrentrelationship with excel
  • right? Tried to find vba code for excel that’ll do what I want. Ended up looking so long, had to do it manually #phdchat
  • the Cubs are in the world series in my excel workbook problem #itsgoinhappen
  • Some make lists of pros and cons. When you have a spreadsheet with "Normalized importance to relationship" you might be a game developer.
  • i’m beginning to accept the fact that excel is a legitimate problem solving tool. doesn’t mean i like it.
  • Gantt charts are a great way to plan a project! They are also a pain in the backside to make in Excel! ๐Ÿ˜€
  • I find even at A-level students can’t draw a graph by hand or in Excel. I’m going to get "don’t draw in pen" stickers.
  • Fact: The original visicalc spreadsheet program was smaller in size than each app icon on your phone’s home page.

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Excel Twitter 20111031

imageHappy Halloween! Instead of the Monster Mash, we bring you the Excel Mash, and a few spreadsheet nightmares.

  • If you cross my palm with silver, I’ll gaze into my crystal Excel spreadsheet and see what the spirits reckon.
  • Finished work an hour late with eyes square from Excel-mashing all day. Trying to find an evening activity that doesn’t involve eye strain.
  • I dreamt I was inputting data into a giant excel spreadsheet last night. I’m struggling to find a positive interpretation.
  • I am in no mood to work today, so I’ve decided to arbitrarily move between the diffent tabs on the excel sheet that I have to review.
  • This may be simple stuff for some of you, but Pivot Tables in Excel are awesome. #ThatIsAll
  • What’s the problem? You know I’m a third-degree blackbelt in Excel, right?
  • Quietly impressed that a 111-character iPhone-typed Excel formula supplied to solve a userโ€™s problem worked at only second time of asking.
  • Just alphabetizing my CDs. With the help of Excel and a Pivot Table. *ahem*
  • I thought that I know something, but I haven’t known anything #Exam #Excel
  • I’d like to have access to whatever pivot table is used to pull these random baseball factoids.
  • Building a complex Excel workbook for a few weeks only to realize you should’ve just created a database is…just…humbling.
  • I think , therefore I #PowerPivot he said somewhat philosophically….
  • I hate getting stuck with something … My brain still thinking of that spreadsheet formulae that am trying to crack last night! :S
  • Nothing is more difficult than sitting and watching an excel workbook calculate! I have no #patience.
  • Opening my Spotify. Let me see what music I can find that will help me work this massive Excel spreadsheet.
  • Excel has officially replaced the calculator. I can’t even do simple calculations without a spreadsheet.

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Excel Twitter 20111029

imageIt’s impressive if your Excel file rivals the great pyramids of Egypt โ€“ just don’t include any pyramid charts!

  • I think the most accurate career aptitude test in the world would reveal that I was born to color code Excel spread sheets.
  • Boss asked how is the registration going for SL2 and I heard Excel 2. *sigh* So obvious I’m not done with my monthly reports yet
  • Just realized I was making more work for myself with this spreadsheet… Sigh. Oh well at least it’s finished now
  • So I just completed a report that took 2 days to do, then my boss ask me to put it in an Excel sheet. Why didn’t she ask that from the top.
  • Shoulda never told my boss I was an accounting major #bbmhandoverface SO MUCH EXCEL NOWWWWW
  • Someone sent me a fax of an excel spreadsheet…………………..hand to forehead.
  • Excel thinks 200.42+0.84=201.25, which throws off the entire problem. #WTF
  • sorry professor, i will not type the entire cash flow projection spreadsheet into excel instead i will download one offline #sorrynotsorryy
  • But for my money, I’ll take a good OLAP cube over an Excel pivot table any day! ๐Ÿ™‚
  • When someone annoying approaches my desk I rush to pull up a complicated looking spreadsheet & stare at it in fake confusion. #IMREALLYBUSY
  • tomorrow I am going to solve the welfare problem in the UK with a excel spreadsheet and 8 cups of coffee
  • Getting dressed for my interview and watching videos on how to create pie charts on Excel I forgot smh
  • I rememeber my early days,… with MultiPlan,… that day I should have quit with computer stuff,… #excel #bad
  • It’s not that hard, people. #excel #spreadsheet #helpless
  • so the chart is effectively a bit rubbish it would seem, all things considered. secretary not as good at excel as she thought!
  • I’ve stepped into the 21st century and come to realize that a card catalogue is not the best way to organize my books. Spreadsheet time!
  • The construction of the pyramids had nothing on this spreadsheet I’m building. #Excel

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Excel Twitter 20111028

imageComic Sans font is only acceptable in an Excel worksheet if you’re also cleaning out the mud room, or doing witchcraft.

  • I am my boss’ excel guru. It makes me happy. Nevermind that I help with fairly simple problems.
  • some people don’t realize how stupid they sound I swearโ€ฆ"I need to upgrade my excel I can’t open files" really you have Office 2010
  • Once I spent half a day yelling at a pivot table. This might take some practice #excel #LibTalkData
  • Both headphones in now as I conquer this spreadsheet. I’ve been called a "problem-solving genius" with "efficient excel witchcraft" today.
  • Even when making a spreadsheet in Excel, she has to make it look pretty!
  • What we did in the last 90 mins typically costs tens of thousands of dollars. #PowerPivot – accept no substitute.
  • So, more pie charts, graphs and excel sheets, which everyone reads to suit themselves.
  • 3 hours deep in a spreadsheet. coming up for air. deserve a vacation.
  • I love this guy, but anyone who thinks accountants know Excel or tech in general are grossly misinformed.
  • In early to work on Excel, once again Excel has decided to lie in. #Fail
  • If the way I just made this Excel spreadsheet my bitch is any indication, I think I’d do ok in prison.
  • I’ve solved an excel problem. Time to go home, right?
  • you mean excel shouldn’t be used as a database? What heresy is this ๐Ÿ˜‰
  • she was showing us some big calculus problem. And me being a smartass said "in the real world we would use excel to compute"
  • Currently, I’m writing & cleaning out my purse & doing an excel spreadsheet & organizing the mud room.
  • Only thing worse than Comic Sans in an email? Comic Sans in an Excel spreadsheet. Like the one someone just sent me. #FAIL
  • I made the mistake of admitting I know how to use Excel at work. Stupid.
  • I’m pretty sure theres only so long I can stare at this excel spreadsheet before somebody gets suspicious.
  • I love Excel. Using VLOOKUP for everything is so much easier than working. :p

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Excel Twitter 20111027

imageMaybe the Vulcans don’t worry about a minor loss of fidelity in Excel. The rest of us will have a cup of tea, while we try to chill out.

  • You are now and intermediate excel user hahah I love the IT department. #smalljoysatwork
  • Stupid Excel, stop scrolling the whole sheet when I use the arrow keys, I just want to go to the next ce- oh! Scroll Lock is on.
  • my face says im working really hard on this new spreadsheet .. my screen says im working really hard an finding the perfect dress online
  • Almost lost my lab report, Excel charts, and graphs I’ve been working on for hours because of this stupid laptop. I would have cried.
  • My excel says. I have a ‘minor loss of fidelity’. Um , ok. Chill out netbook, I love you and the laptop the same. Don’t judge me!
  • Cup of tea. Twix. Excel charts. What more could you ask for?
  • I thought Excel was overkill for the status report, but the boss thinks we should start using PowerPoint. Says it looks more impressive.
  • I’m sad I use to love making over complicated formulae and Marcos in excel at school for my own amusement
  • I love #excel I do. Just spent an afternoon with a new client, a complete beginner, and it certainly gave her the "wow" factor.
  • Been waiting here for my damn computer to sort this pivot table for 15 min. Bill Gates step your game up on excel. #overloadedexcel
  • Never really got the hang of pivot tables in excel before, but I have just worked out how to use them to track army lists in Warhammer 40K
  • Starting my shopping list for the holiday season. Who else is crazy and makes an excel spreadsheet? #superorganized
  • tht moment when uve been staring at an excel sheet for an hour trying to find an error and you finally do…but dont know how to fix it #fml
  • I hate Excel its so stupid and graphy I hate graphs, I cant wait to get tot he next section
  • WE must be Vulcans or something. I love Excel, too! #talknt
  • I hate when I do stupid things in Excel like group sheets, make changes + wonder why I can’t move images or there are weird lines everywhere

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Excel Twitter 20111026

image Maybe this list of Excel tweets should be explained by a hot guy with an accent. Or maybe it’s time for a Scotch, and some makeup.

  • One day, Excel, you and I are going to fall in love. Until that time comes, please just be civil and maybe hold my hand.
  • Really? I ask for the data in an excel spreadsheet…why do you give it to me in a word table. This makes no sense!
  • Wonder if I should do an excel spreadsheet for the iPhone 4S plans.
  • laptop doesnt have excel, house computer is broke. lab report due tomorrow. #fml #failinglab #really?
  • i love excel. i hate excel. time for a scotch.
  • Just wrote the longest excel equation of my life. I put a lookup function inside an if equation. Also had to reference multiple sheets. #fml
  • with excel I really do give up, maybe office 2010 64bit will ease the stupid bottlenecks that MS should have done ages ago
  • Oy! Excel! Putting color on spreadsheets is like putting make-up on. Makes u feel good; but only covers up the problem;-)
  • Learning the powderfulness of Pivot Table.
  • I just went all Excel nuts & made a hypnobabies plan for the next 18 weeks. Yes, I’m anal retentive like that. Also a spreadsheet geek.
  • i’m having problems with this excel spreadsheet and it’s making my emotions out of whack.
  • Making an excel spreadsheet to better understand my student loans…yeah there are that many a spreadsheet is necessary. #scared
  • Ahh, the joys of being good at Excel… (makes spreadsheet to get all the answers for me) #nerdtweet
  • #HelpdeskFail "Please could you (urgently) arrange to salvage a record that was on an excel spreadsheet but is no longer there." ?\_?
  • Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. #bed?
  • My roomy is so funny she wanted to watch a math video just so see a hot guy with an accent explain Microsoft excel! # SoFunny Love Her!

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Excel Twitter 20111025

image Be careful if using Excel while drinking frozen margaritas โ€“ it could result in formatting worksheets with Comic Sans font.

  • Our IT manager just told my boss to name the excel of her usernames/password "Tracking My Pimples"
  • I have 42 pages of excel work to do and its due tomorrow. #procrastinator. Fml.
  • So glad I ran accross this: "Throwing my laptop across the room didn’t help. Any other ideas?" #Excel Issues
  • Someone needs to teach me to use excel…
  • oops lost a follower. guess they don’t like excel either -__-
  • Fun fact: Swearing at Excel will not make it work, nor will it help me understand your problem.
  • I just received an excel spreadsheet done in Comic Sans… a surprising laugh in an otherwise dull day.
  • Using Excel in Geography is probably cheating. #ohwell
  • This project would be a lot easier if I knew how to work excel…. #fml
  • New excel has reformatted all of my graphs. This should be good for 2 hrs of work
  • Worked on knitting patterns & charts all day, thank God for Excel. And also for frozen lime margaritas, my birthday treat!
  • Why I love marketing majors : around week 7 of the class taught in excel "you mean excel can do calculations " #helpingmycurve
  • My boss just called me "the queen of Excel." Not gonna lie, I’m kinda flattered. #nerdalert
  • I’m entering the #Excel Zone.
  • Few years ago I spent a day on an excel sheet, only to have a boss’ boss strip out all calculations and just keep the values.

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Excel Twitter 20111024

image Don’t be a slacker! Learn how to add formulas in an Excel pivot table, but don’t make pie charts โ€“ they’ll make you hungry.

  • Back to scary spreadsheet and muttering dire things at Excel. Business as usual, in other words.
  • Just found out I can add formulas into a Pivot table!!!!!! This definitely made my life easier!!!! #happygirl
  • Nooooo!!!!!! Excel crashed. Probably a sign to leave the office now.
  • Ever since that one time that it was the most difficult thing in the world, I can make graphs on excel. Like a boss.
  • 1 part Excel 8 parts Ferrari = PowerPivot! hmm 35 millions rows in excel sorts in under a second.
  • My colleague is currently attempting a record for staring at the same spreadsheet without actually doing any of the work on it. #slacker
  • i feel so business woman: papers all around the desk, glasses on, excel on work and coffee u.u morning ๐Ÿ˜€
  • In the same way Leonidas wouldn’t let Ephialtes fight, stupid people should not be allowed to use excel.
  • I love Excel. So, shut up =)
  • it is pretty daunting to have an excel spreadsheet titled "FUTURE"
  • I have made a swanky spreadsheet. Multiple pages, merged cells, the works!
  • If Twitter looked more like an Excel spreadsheet, I wouldnโ€™t have to frantically close this window every 19 seconds as my boss walks by
  • Learning how to make pie charts in Excel is making me hungry!
  • Oh hai PowerPivot. I see you like memory, I like it too. Can we share? No, not really? #3GBMemoryWoes
  • I think I’m having a small breakdown today. There have been tears, I’ve made lists, I made a freaking excel spreadsheet and now I’m LOLing.
  • Anything involving Excel automatically cancels the ability to smile.

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Excel Twitter 20111022

imagePlease don’t murder any Excel workbooks today โ€“ leave the spreadsheet violence to the vampires. Instead, put on your wizard’s hat, and do good work.

  • i managed to work excel without sweating (not literally) today. i’m learning :3
  • Lesson learned: my computer at work cannot sort through 190k rows of excel.
  • Spreadsheet? Database? EXCEL IS NOT A DATABASE! I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE USE EXCEL AS A DATABASE! HATE HATE HATE
  • Made an excel spreadsheet for my timetable cuz I couldn’t save the PDF version. #proudmoment
  • Advanced excel and power pivot training, damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
  • lecture on how to create charts in excel = #mostboringthingever #losing
  • Being a smartarse at Excel Macros can make you waste hours looking for the solution to the complicated problem that has the simple solution
  • I like how wizard is a commonly used software term. I picture gandalf creating pivot tables in excel for frodo. Thoushallnotpass! filter
  • Creating these formulas for this excel spreadsheet is super confusing. I didn’t learn this in class, why is it on the homework ?
  • Lists are fun for me. When I go on a trip, the first step is opening Excel and creating a spreadsheet. I like cells. Mmmmm.
  • i THINK i’M RUNNING OUT OF COLORS IN eXCEL FOR THESE FREAKIN PIE CHARTS!!!!
  • I wonder if Vampires can use Excel sheets?? Werewolf Volumes?? Graph showing decrease in garlic supplies?? This spreadsheet wld kill ’em!
  • No matter how many excel sheets I work on I still take pride in making the final summary sheet look beautiful. #Nerd
  • Should be doing work right now but Excel spreadsheets are very boring.
  • I kind of want to murder this spreadsheet. I’m not going to lie.

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Excel Twitter 20111021

imageMaybe the lights wouldn’t flicker, if we stop making worthless cosmetic changes to our Excel workbooks. But don’t ask the IT guy โ€“ he’ll just sigh.

  • Its embarrassing that as a finance graduate,I had no idea what is/how to construct a pivot table up until two hours ago #previoustweet #AUS
  • I love #ExtremeCouponing it’s hoarders with excel sheets!
  • It’s not my fault, Excel does not WANT me to work on my homework. I guess I’ll have to wait then. #fb #goodexcuses
  • these are the same people that send me excel spreadsheets with 17 workbook pages.. all blank.. except page 17
  • Apologies if lights are currently flickering in the Akropolis area. It’s my laptop trying to process some stupidly large excel workbook ๐Ÿ™
  • Wake up and remember your pivot table has put your debits and credits around the wrong way…. #accountinglife
  • Don’t you hate when your bank balance is so large you have to keep adjusting the columns in your spreadsheet? #meniether
  • I love my Excel spreadsheets, but sometimes I think I’d be happier if I wasn’t looking at the cold hard figures for everything. $$$$$$$.
  • I suffer from a tragic inability to find the same background colour twice on a spreadsheet. I am seeking help.
  • Yay! I have finished the worthless cosmetic changes to 178 excel charts.
  • I spent the entire morning creating pivot reports for a meeting that no one thought to tell me had been cancelled. *drums fingers on table*
  • The IT guy does not care how stupid Excel is being. I still can’t have Open Office. "You Mac people," he sighed.
  • EVERYONE HAS CHARTS ON THEIR EXCEL SHEET?! When did this happen?!
  • It takes me so long to remember how to correctly freeze the panes in Excel. And I do it like once a week.
  • Hope my new doctor appreciates my excel spreadsheet of ailments. I’ve got some catching up to do!
  • Boss out of office. I prepd a pr report for him 2 view,but had 2 change file type.He uses the Excel vers that the Ancient Romans used.

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Count Exact Matches: Excel Question

Here’s an Excel question from today’s mailbag. MK asks:

  • I am trying to use countif to find the number of times a word exactly appears in a column โ€“ e.g. count the no of times โ€œPACKโ€ appeared in a column excluding โ€œpackโ€ etc. I remember seeing a combination of countif and exact functions used in conjunction somewhere, but not able to figure out the right formula.

To solve this problem, MK could use the SUMPRODUCT and EXACT functions in a formula. As shown in Example 6, this technique will count items that are an exact match, including the upper and lower case.

For example, to match the contents of cell C2, in a list in column A, use this formula:

=SUMPRODUCT(โ€“EXACT($A$2:$A$11,C2))

If you have another solution, please post it in the comments. Thanks!

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Excel Twitter 20111020

imageTurn on the Metallica, get out your pencils, and finish your Excel charts. Or, create something pivot-table-tastic!

  • Doing pivot table. And I’m doing it wrong. #friedbrain
  • Thought this girl beside me was playing a game ad then I realized she was deleting grid boxes in excel #imdumb
  • Excel solver cannot solve my problem. #bummer
  • I’m a total analytics junkie. Love trying new tools, but nothing can quite replacing a customized Excel doc. #pr20chat
  • Should have figured that installing PowerPivot for Excel would be harder than learning how to use it!!!
  • The biggest problem people have with Microsoft Excel is not thinking of the final requirements and the correct way to lay it out!
  • is doing high tech trend analysis by printing excel charts and drawing trend lines by had #in #dontask
  • Just a little auditor girl, living in a spreadsheet world….#auditing
  • When doing homework, 10% of my time is spent on the actual assignment and 90% is spent on trying to figure out how to work Microsoft Excel.
  • Pivot-table-tastic! How my life has changed!
  • There’s something slightly discordant about listening to Metallica while filling out a spreadsheet.I am not a rebel.
  • i am drunk on coffee while working A VERY IMPORTANT EXCEL SPREADSHEET.
  • Think its safe to say I’ve been the copy/paste queen in Excel today…
  • Darn it… excel can only pivot on numeric fields… that’s a pain… Time to pivot in SQL.
  • excel is on my side for once, I have charts. And they’re pretty! ๐Ÿ™‚
  • Been cursing my PC and MS Excel for being darn slow but turns out the spreadsheet had become 42 Mb in size for some reason ๐Ÿ™
  • I have no issue with excel, spend most of my time working with it. Its other people trying to use it thats the problem!

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Excel Twitter 20111019

image Next time your dad does your Excel homework, make sure he finishes it! And be grateful that he didn’t name you Excel.

  • Well, it’s off to do some modelling in Excel! By which I mean I take a revenue number and then multiply it a lot.
  • Learnt a new thing in Excel today. How to make circular referencing work for you.. Bloody amazing!
  • if Excel is hard , then TRY TO WRITE IT ALL down…and tell me what’s better ?
  • Why would a mother name the child she carried for 9 months EXCEL?
  • Watching an online course on making charts in Excel. The word "chart" sounds so weird after you hear it a bunch of times in a row.
  • I curse the person who invented graphs! and the person who thought excel was a good idea!
  • It’s been a long & stressful day in which I discovered I’m crap at Excel, disappointing my boss even further! Need de-stressing ๐Ÿ™
  • Using excel all day, I swear it is making me boss-eyed! #ihatespreadsheets
  • I am drowning in the tedium of filling in a spreadsheet. #ThankGodIHave10YearsOfHigherEd
  • Going to remove PowerPivot. My Excel keeps crashing… Plus I never used it…
  • Just watched my Dad add up some numbers in a spreadsheet in his head and type the answer into another cell. #missingthepoint
  • The absolute last thing I want to do right now is this pivot table project #burntout
  • Finally getting up 2 hours after my alarmโ€ฆand only because I can’t work on Excel using my iPhone.
  • Pivot tables are hard. #excel #fb
  • I know I’m old when I get excited about learning shortcuts and formulas in excel…
  • My dad did my finance project for me and I can’t read his handwriting to type the work and answers in on Excel. #welp
  • I need a training wheels version of #Excel the regular one makes me feel stupid. #helpthatisn’thelpful

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Excel Twitter 20111018

imageIf you spend the day in Twitter and YouTube, instead of Excel, you might avoid a nervous breakdown. On the other hand, you might lose your job!

  • I was gonna make a spreadsheet kinda thing on Excel for a budget, but failed. I’ll just use pen and paper, much easier.Excel skills are gone
  • I love my mum she been teaching how to budget using Excel a total revelation to me. #Family #Grateful
  • Does anyone know how to make a box plot in excel? Stupid stats.
  • Oh dear, I’ve killed Excel again. Trying to auto-filter and pivot-table on 241,000 records is clearly too much for it.
  • A bottle of cheap white wine perfectly compliments excel pivot tables! Who knew!
  • I’m excited to lead a lunch-and-learn on creating pivot tables (and other Excel tips), but I’m a little sad to be revealing my "secrets"
  • Looking at a report generated by the reporting team. Someone needs to teach them how to use a freaking pivot table.
  • If one could marry a spreadsheet, I’d propose to the one I have in front of me right now.
  • One more exam in the morning. But, being boss of VLOOKUPs and Conditional Formatting means that Excel can quite frankly "bite me".
  • Battling to do graphs for boss – I wish they would send me on an advanced Excel course already.
  • Does any1 know any good software for designing #graphs/charts? Besides excel, something that allows for more creativity #design #statistics
  • I am so awesome and efficient, that i work on a single excel sheet all day by being on twitter and youtube.
  • wish I could excel spreadsheet and color code my feelings, for everything in life in general. That would be amazing.
  • i love excel sheets – i love alphabetically categorizing & organizing my music /pictures according to genre & type omg I LOVE no sarcasm
  • Just an inch away to having Excel & Pivot table-originated nervous breakdown !!!!!!!!

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Excel Twitter 20111017

SpreadsheetDay82Happy Spreadsheet Day! As part of the celebrations, maybe someone will give you chocolate for working in Excel today, or play Rocky Top when you change tabs.

  • On my birthday next year I’m gonna bring a small band into work to play Rocky Top. Open Excel sheet? Rocky Top. Change tabs? Rocky Top.
  • Who knew you would get chocolates for knowing how to work in excel!
  • Life is not an Excel spreadsheet. There are no formulas, digits, and highlighted borders. Don’t be a number-crunching statistic. Be human.
  • Challenging task from a client, akin to creating a financial model spreadsheet in 3 dimensions. Definitely interesting but OW MY BRAIN
  • I am Excelexic (unable to comprehend Excel). Off to the book store to get an Excel for Stupid People book. #fb
  • im miserable because im stuck here doing this stupid online excel class! #fml
  • Mom and bro use an Excel spreadsheet to decide which toilet bowls/bathtubs to buy. Accountants will be accountants. I am laughing so hard.
  • Yes, boss, excel does freeze with huge files. No, I can’t make it move faster. Yes, yelling at me WILL make me cry and be unable to talk.
  • I’m struggling with this pivot table, why oh why won’t it add it all up? stupid thing.
  • Is it sad that I am on a total high from getting my pivot table bang on for the first time #excelguru
  • I need one of you engineers to show me how to use excel ASAP. I’M an English Major and apparently I’m stupid
  • i’m attempting pivots on a newer version of microsoft excel and i feel like a caveman, because they changed the code. thanks.
  • Back to work tomorrow. Back to typing formulas in excel sheets while wondering how it went all wrong.
  • Working at home in my pjs with a football game on in the background. Not too shabby for having to reformat a 30,000 row excel worksheet
  • Suddenly, Excel starts to take over my life. I feel like a v1.0 manager with many service pack installed.
  • When someone know Excel, I mean REALLY knows Excel, it is STUPID CRAZY what you can really do with it. #MindBlowingAWESOMENESS
  • Today: 15 hours of work, sorting excel spreadsheets and making sure all boats come in safely. Tomorrow: PJs and Walking Dead marathon.

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Excel Twitter 20111015

epsilonWhich is tougher to learn โ€“ Greek or Excel cash flow charts? I could make a drop down for you to select your answer.

And remember to celebrate Spreadsheet Day 2011 on Monday, October 17th.

  • Never got pivot tables in Excel, then they suddenly clicked last night! Awesome things they are ๐Ÿ™‚
  • I’m really starting to think school is pointless. Why am I using excel to do a math problem when I can use basic algebra?
  • I love the game in Excel when you see how long you can go without using the mouse.
  • so hey, i learned how to make charts out of excel and it was during a testing session #unprepared
  • I think I’ll sleep and wake up at 4 am to finish homework and this stupid excel project -_-
  • I hate excel. I studied Latin and Greek, 4 God’s sake. Why am I working on cash flow charts???
  • I promise I can’t stand excel…stupid thang blows up on me EVERY SINGLE DAY!!!
  • Oh God, I have to open Microsoft Excel. I liken this to a visit to the dentist.
  • Apparently Excel can even forget when it does things. 95% of my work got autosaved. #epicreliefisepic
  • I am creating a drop-down in Excel for ethnicity. I have accidentally added an option for ‘White – Otter’.
  • Finally got one of the magic calls, hunting for an elegant solution to a strange Excel problem without having someone just write code. #whoo
  • Just ran ‘remove duplicates’ in mac version of excel. 8 removed. Ran again in Windows version, 224 removed. Make the features work Microsoft
  • I don’t care to know how formulas work in excel! Its giving me a headache ๐Ÿ™
  • Yey! Finally figured out what’s wrong in our pivot table! I can go home! Hah
  • Nerd Alert: I just learned how to make a kick-butt multi-axis chart in excel. I know. Late to the party. But I proud moment here. #Charts

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Excel Twitter 20111014

imageIt takes lots of creativity to work with Excel. Without it, you’ll end up bent over your des, with clouded thinking.

  • waiting for excel to open is like watching molasses drip out of a jar. #fml
  • I have fuzzy excel brain…my thinking has become very clouded. My optimal problem solving time has been and gone. Been & Gone.
  • stop it, my face is always like that when i work on excel okay
  • is going crazy. Not sure if its starring at excel spreadsheet, being indoors with no windows or just lack of coffee. #fb
  • OH: "I still code! I wrote an excel spreadsheet formula the other day!"
  • Feels like I have eaten many excel sheets today :S
  • Oh you know how it goes, one minute you’re happily playing with a pivot table and the next thing you know, you’re bent over your desk…
  • how many moms are excited when their kids call with Excel questions? I know one…
  • Seriously how much RAM does Excel need to open a 35MB worksheet?
  • Yes, Excel, I do indeed want to keep the spreadsheet in this format. Ask me 4 times. I will not change my mind. I am obduracy personified.
  • Wish I had a job that was creative but hey ho bring on the excel tomorrow
  • Nerd Tweet: is there anything more satisfying than making a complicated Excel formula work after seeing #NAME all morning?
  • I just solved a basic problem we were having with Excel and my "I feel like a genius" factor is through the roof. #genius
  • If I were to have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, it would be the inventor of the pivot table. He/she deserves a nice seafood dinner.
  • This week has been the only time in my life i’ve enjoyed using excel & modeling my financials.
  • just did some of the best excel work of my life so buy me lunch

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Excel Twitter 20111013

imageStaring at an Excel spreadsheet for many hours can lead to flashbacks, or cravings for breath mints. It’s worth the effort though, if it can lead to world peace.

  • made an Excel dreamsheet…that’s what you call a really exciting spreadsheet. Well, that’s what I call it anyway ^E
  • 13 hours of studying and a 4 hour long exam later………My brain is going to turn into a spreadsheet. I feel brainwashed by excel.
  • Hey, educators, Spreadsheet Day is coming: http://t.co/rI2D2vci This year’s focus is on helping students. Brother, can you spare a formula?
  • Staring at spreadsheet coloured exactly like orange and lime tic tacs. Now I want some.
  • You know it’s dire when you really enjoy an MS Excel themed joke.
  • DUDE IN THE LIBRARY I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR EXCEL SPREADSHEET AND METRIC SOMETHING SOMETHING SHUT UP I’M TRYING TO READ.
  • you’d have enjoyed the looks of shock & horror when an #excel BI class were told to avoid pie charts
  • I have just introduced the admin staff to Excel Pivot Tables. I believe it is the modern equivalent of discovering fire. I am now their god.
  • Excel is giving me flashbacks (not the good kind) to my days at Ford. Ah the wonders of pivot tables.
  • How to find the weighted average on an excel spreadsheet… #impossible
  • I have spent most the day trying to remember how to program and create macros in Excel. 6 hours equates about 60 lines of code, I suck ๐Ÿ™
  • Professor fumbling around on #excel during lecture. I can relate. #frustrating
  • I need a new job where I don’t stare at an excel spreadsheet for 8 hrs a day. #goingcrazy
  • Two days of Excel training. Day 1 interesting. Power Pivot Tables this afternoon sounds daunting though. *brain hurts*
  • If we search hard enough, the solutions to world peace and world hunger would be somewhere in between MATLAB and EXCEL

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Excel Twitter 20111012

imageIf your eyes are sore, and Excel charts make you sad, don’t have a meltdown. Some cake and wine, or a clubhouse in the breezeway, and you’ll feel better in no time.

  • that moment where you finally conquered the equation problem in your excel spreadsheet #hellyeah
  • I’m hip-deep in Excel spreadsheets and my headphones have developed an very displeasing buzz. Sad
  • Know that moment when your boss asks a question & by the time you’ve pulled up that awesome excel sheet to answer?…he’s walked away…
  • Excel is being so sassy today.
  • Work, shower, excel practice, macro, cake, wine pokemon, bed.
  • Omg. I hate not being challenged. Everyone in my class can’t work Excel. Like come on.
  • Made my kid a clubhouse in the breezeway (it’s raining) since she tried to have her little friends over during my Excel meltdown.
  • These Excel sheets + my eyes = (*_*)
  • Just spent 3 hours with excel and end of month figures and now I want to curl into a ball and cry.
  • I hate when people build #Excel spreadsheets incorrectly #formattinghell
  • 47 tabs in the excel spreadsheet. *47*. ridiculous.
  • Happy anniv to me, excel and sql ?
  • Effort of putting farmer’s clinical mastitis notes into excel pays off: high incidence in the first 4 wks of lactation #mastitis
  • When I look back at my life, it will make me sad to know I probably spent 12.6% of it making/adjusting/resizing excel charts…
  • I really don’t like Excel. I just don’t get the formulas. I would rather do it the old fashioned way (with a calculator).
  • I know this is terribly sad, but I have to admit it. I really do love #excel. Where is my excel shortcuts mug?

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Excel Twitter 20111011

image Knock, knock. Who’s there? Doctor Who. Doctor Who who? Doctor, who blacked out while using Excel?

Yes, the jokes are bad, but I can’t do jokes at 7:30 in the morning!

  • My boyfriend and I are making an Excel spreadsheet! This is the kind of stuff I get excited about in relationships…
  • Started a list of drink specials in excel so it looks like I’m doing work. #tabbedbyday #yplife
  • according to one of the IT guys at work, I must make an excel spreadsheet of what my ideal guy has to be like and start looking for one asap
  • (I can do wonderful things with my Doctor Who ratings Excel spreadsheet.)
  • Did I just black out at work? Don’t remember doing this thing on Excel on my list, but there it is.. o_O
  • Ugh, I hate Excel, this one stupid chart is what’s blocking me from enjoying the rest of the night.
  • Schools are stupid. Why do they insist on teaching us algebra? FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT?! They should teach us accounting. Or excel.
  • This Microsoft excel class was a BAD Idea! #fml
  • Spent over 9 straight hours developing a single excel workbook….Backing this masterpiece up about 50 times and going back at it.
  • I can’t do excel at 7:30 in the morning omg
  • I’m a David on the corporate battlefield, #excel is my slingshot, & my reports are my smooth stones. I wish a giant would test my Father!
  • Omg! I am so proud of myself!! Just figured out the complex use of IF/AND/OR function for multiple criteria & it gave me the result! #excel
  • Yes, I did just make an Excel Worksheet for my nail polish collection. #hoarder #addiction
  • Realizing the importance of learning how to use Excel or Numbers, ugh…
  • Ok, I was just working on one #excel file but I already have 62 unread tweets. work is interfering with my social life
  • Also disappointing: bar charts whose bars are meant to sum to 100(%) but the author hasn’t adjusted the axis in Excel, so they go to 120%.

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Excel Twitter 20111010

imageIf you’re going to write a spreadsheet poem, it should rhyme โ€“ no IFs, ANDs or BUTTs about it.

  • If you’re not planning your holidays with the aid of an excel spreadsheet you aren’t doing it right
  • Want to look busy and not worth talking to? Keep an Excel spreadsheet handy #worktips
  • Does anyone enjoy financial modelling? I have a seriously sexy spreadsheet that I need help with if you do.
  • OH I need to add that my Google Spreadsheet of jokes.
  • First time really using a spreadsheet pivot table today and wow….. terrific way to squeeze useful information out of a sea of data.
  • I have an excel spreadsheet open to try and figure out place sittings for dinner tomorrow. #nerd
  • Setting up the monster that is this #excel #spreadsheet…last run took 2.5 hours to calculate – looking or a quick 1.75 this go around.
  • for anyone this would apply to, please don’t ever use the stupid 3D bar graph in excel. IMPOSSIBLE to read data accurately from those
  • And I should b sleeping but somthing about finishing this Excel spreadsheet seems productive…
  • Thank you! I usually do the numbers in Excel, the charts in Numbers & finish in Photoshop. Unf this one was mostly Photoshop. ๐Ÿ™‚
  • I’m a little spreadsheet, short and stout. here is my pivot table, here my formula.
  • Just bought a book on how to work excel. Life has hit a new low.
  • Thought I left Excel at work… damn wedding…
  • after 6 hours in excel, and another hour to go.. i now know way too much about formals. #fml #worktweet
  • birthday x made him a spreadsheet and printed it on a cake Went down well ๐Ÿ™‚ spreadsheet resulted in pie chart http://t.co/aDKMh6Jn
  • About to run a pivot table that will most likely crash my computer if not the universe as a whole.
  • Nothing has changed. You’re just a number in a spreadsheet.
  • got a tattoo on my buttcheek that says ‘no chairs allowed’~ ‘little do my bosses know, as i sit and work on excel docs, im rebelling hxc ;)’

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Excel Twitter 20111008

imageHave you tried R programming? Is it really better than Excel, or is it just easier to spell?

  • Boss kept fussing at me because I was saving things in "Hotmail" instead of Excel. Figured out he was getting an HTML error. Whoa.
  • not fair! I want duvet day…instead I have excel spreadsheet day ahead of me ๐Ÿ™
  • My professor has to be on crack, no one can have this much energy, and love microsoft excel this much.
  • Excel is really getting on my nerves… *breathe in breathe out*. back to my workbook
  • If you work heavily with Excel and aren’t using Pivot Tables, you’re doing it wrong. Learn them and thank me later.
  • Can someone who knows how to use excel on a Mac please come over and help me
  • This Excel class really helps me work on my twitter game for a solid hour twice a week.. #1aAcedemics
  • Yea I work in Excel non-stop so I have my personal macro workbook packed full of useful shortcuts.
  • the reason most people love excel is because they are usually using it for the wrong purpose. Excel is not a database.
  • Oh, and 1. My voice sounds as though it’s starting to go out; 2. I have to do work in Excel and am dreading it like a redneck dreads heels.
  • just learnt how to work pivot tables in Excel #achievement think I can pack up and go home now
  • Peeps ask what R programming is like: imagine having Excel with unlimited memory, all functions and macros, better charts, and no GUI grid.
  • trying to update some ridiculously complicated excel tables. AGGRAVATING
  • its raining, I want to be at home in front of the fireplace reading a good book & drinking a latte, not meddling in excel & a bad "tool"
  • Being at work so long all I see is excel sheets & numbers lol
  • Officially beast at making map data on Excel. Saved me about an hour of unnecessary work. #likeaboss
  • I just used Excel to make my first spreadsheet ever. Feel pride and self-loathing at the same time.

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Remove Characters Before Numbers: Excel Questions

Questions are often asked in the comments for the Contextures Excel Blog, and sometimes those questions get overlooked, and lost in the shuffle.

I’ll post some of the questions here, and please add your suggestions for solving the problems.

How Do I Remove Characters?

Here is one of those questions, from a commenter named Joanne:

  • What formula do I use if I want to remove asterisks (*) in front of figures in a spreadsheet column, where the number of digits vary?
  • For example, this is in cell A2:  ***2.00 – ***20000.00

Solution 1 – Formula

To get rid of asterisks in those cells, I’d use the SUBSTITUTE function.

  • For example if the first number is in cell A2, put this formula in cell B2:

      =--SUBSTITUTE(A2,"*","")

  • Then, copy that formula down to the remaining rows

The SUBSTITUTE function replaces the asterisks with nothing, and the two minus signs after the equal sign change the number from text to a real number.

Solution 2 – Formula (Excel 365)

If you have Excel 365, with TEXTJOIN, and the new array functions, there is a formula on my Contextures site that will remove ALL non-numeric characters from a text string.

Go to the Combine Text and Numbers page, and in the TEXTJOIN section, you can see the formula and its explanation – Example 6 – Remove Non-Numeric Characters

TEXTJOIN function combines numbers only from cell

Suggested Solution – Find and Replace

Thanks to Jennifer Deacon, who suggested the following Find and Replace solution, if you don’t need to keep the original data, and want to remove the asterisks only:

  • First, select all the cells where you want to remove asterisks
  • Next, use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+H, to open the Find and Replace dialog box, with the Replace tab active
  • Then, in the Find What box, type this: ~*
    • The tilde (~) tells Excel to look for the asterisk (*)
    • Otherwise, the * is used as a wildcard, representing “any characters”
  • Leave the Replace With box empty
    • Excel will replace each asterisk with nothing
  • Finally, click the Replace All button, ro remove the asterisks from the selected cells

Your Solution

How would you solve the problem? If you have a different solution, please add a comment, to help Joanne, or anyone else with a similar problem.

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Excel Twitter 20111017

imageIf you’ve been through the nine circles of Excel, you might start to see animal shapes too. And who hasn’t seen a bit of lion in a spreadsheet?

  • I need more coffee. I’m starting to see animal shapes in the numbers insides my Excel spreadsheet.
  • In other news, I need to spend the afternoon building a big excel workbook. #ihatevlookups
  • the fact that I just opened an excel sheet on my phone brought me a weird amount of excitement
  • i don’t know whats worse gambling or the fact that i spent 3 hours in the middle of the night making an excel worksheet for my betting stats
  • Note to self: Probably best not to start trying to work out Excel formulas at 5pm on a Thursday.
  • I dont wanna tweet about excel or office work stuff anymore…i wanna tweet about fun times in the studio already! ๐Ÿ™
  • Nothing more frightening than exiting an excel spreadsheet and it prompts you to save changes you were unaware you made.
  • Excel is one of the best inventions ever. I could never do this work by hand.
  • I typed up my thanksgiving shopping list and menu in an excel spreadsheet. My granny would be so proud ?
  • I think there are numbers wrong in this spreadsheet… that’s the only thing I can think of, since I’m 99% sure I’m doing everything right.
  • My "boss" is trying to setup our project management with an excel spreadsheet. #ishouldquit
  • so far today I have mostly been staring at an excel spreadsheet and wondering how to turn it into something a human would understand
  • It physically pains me to sit through an elementary spreadsheet calculations workshop when I’ve been through all nine circles of Excel.
  • Just experienced the gut wrenching feeling of closing Excel & it did not ask me if I wanted to save. Thought I had lost 3 hours of work.
  • I am in metadata hell and the Excel spreadsheet I am working in has a hypnotic and sleep inducing effect.
  • Sounds…fun? Well everything except the spreadsheet.
  • I am dreaming in Excel spreadsheet. Literally. Rows. Columns. In retrospect, I should have known using Excel as a database causes nightmares
  • If there’s anything I love more than using the color of cells in an Excel file as "data", I don’t know what it is.

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Excel Twitter 20111006

imageIf your roommate has crazy Excel housekeeping sheets, you’d better move before she starts working on her Christmas spreadsheet. That one could really affect your blood pressure!

  • She made an excel spreadsheet of chores that needed to be done each week. I had to initial the sheet when I was finished. #myroommateiscrazy
  • just made my first pivot table in excel… #epicwin
  • I love zooming out big datasets in Excel ’10 and looking at the pretty (& sometimes useful) patterns the numbers make. Just me?
  • Well, I’m the king of Excel. the spreadsheet VIP… #goingslightymad
  • formatting cells in Excel will actually be the death of me, or someone else depending on my mood.
  • i love a great excel workbook as much as the next girl, but too many in a day and i just. . . .shut . . .down.
  • We’re off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of charts and graphs in Microsoft Excel.
  • Busy day tomorrow. Transferring some numbers from one Excel spreadsheet to another. Best part? 5:30pm.
  • My best friend just showed me the pivot table tool in Excel – is it weird that I got excited over a new way to analyze data spreadsheets?
  • Happiness is a mug of fresh coffee and a new excel spreadsheet. Today is a good day.
  • There’s only one thing that makes me feel stupid: Microsoft Excel
  • Trying to work on my patience!!! But trying to talk someone thru using Excel is not a smart move!!! #BloodPressureRising
  • Pretty sure I hold the world record for fastest opening of an empty Excel spreadsheet when my boss walks in.
  • Accounting is easy, but there’s a lot of work *vigorously drawing lines in Excel*
  • Film job training 101: There’s no production problem, big or small, that can’t be solved with a good Excel spreadsheet.
  • Anyone have a PC with Excel they feel like letting me remote access and test a string of VBA code on? Only take a minute….. ๐Ÿ˜€
  • Just began my "Christmas 2011" spreadsheet, complete with budget and gift suggestions. I love the holidays! #itsbeginningtolookalotlikexmas

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Excel Twitter 20111005

imageYou canโ€™t unlock the secrets of Excel unless you work for the Feds, or you paid attention in class. And if youโ€™re over 35, just give up hope โ€“ youโ€™ll never understand worksheets.

  • This is my boss when he uses Excel: "What? Why? Stop. Stoooooop! What? WHAT?! AHHHHH? Why?!" […eerie and sudden silence…] WHAT?!
  • The only thing I have taken from my 5 year tenior in college and used at work is microsoft excel
  • This excel spreadsheet has 216 tabs!
  • In today’s world #ERP and Excel must get along. Problem is when spreadsheets take on a life of their own.
  • I am no closer to unlocking the secrets of Excel 2002. It will be like discovering some ancient treasure when I work it out.
  • I just made an Excel spreadsheet, complete with filters, so I know what fruits/veggies are in season when. #nerdalert
  • Helping my dad with work in Excel of which he knows nothing. And the student becomes the teacher! ๐Ÿ™‚
  • So excel has got me all stupid and now I can’t figure out how to turn on the heat. Grrr!!!
  • Let me rephrase. No one in my industry over 35 knows Excel. Seriously. Twelve questions because no one knows what a worksheet is.
  • I know people from work read this. Are any of you good at conditional validation stuff on Excel 2002? Come save me before I lose my sanity.
  • Just found out about the "veryhidden" attribute in an excel worksheet. Very sneaky.
  • I have an excel spreadsheet where I’m trying to track some advanced metrics on my fantasy football team. Girls are fleeing in terror.
  • Don’t trust anyone that knows Microsoft Excel 10 out of 10 they work for the FEDS or paid attention in class either way don’t trust em lol
  • I swear Office offers random options just to perpetuate hideousness. Texture fills for Excel charts?! #wtf
  • Currently making an excel spreadsheet based on rhinestones and their corresponding Disney princess….for work. #seriously
  • Chucking a hissy fit: Microsoft Excel has somehow messed up all the work I’ve done on my tax return so far! Thanks a lot, technology >:-(
  • dear excel, if I have to work today, you do too. that’s all #getonyourhorse

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Excel Twitter 20111004

Some days, you can get Jell-O eyes from Excel, even if you donโ€™t have a hangover.

  • Just because I can code websites, this does not mean I know why your Microsoft Excel is not working!
  • And now the patter of rain on my office roof disturbing my concentration on a spreadsheet… perhaps I am being told something…
  • Twitter never let’s you down, obscure excel question and in less than a minute 3 helpful answers, thanks all. Appreciated
  • Dear Excel, if I’d wanted you round to the nearest whole number, I’d tell you – otherwise why would I be entering 3 decimal places?
  • I blogged! Tips on setting up multiple usernames on FB & Twitter. Includes my "check if it’s taken" excel spreadsheet: http://t.co/JSDncqbs
  • when your microsoft excel functions bring back ‘error.’ #hellinacell
  • Excel โ€“ and why itโ€™s always a People Problem http://t.co/yFb9SHBo
  • Entering gas receipts into an Excel spreadsheet to be imported into my personal database. I track that stuff. Is that weird? #SQLServer #OCD
  • Excel VBA is great for improving productivity, whilst making you look like you’re not busy when running the code.
  • Excel, this is not the week to encounter errors, ‘quit unexpectedly’ and not recover my work. Making me nervous over here…
  • Spent an hour on a mortgage problem in excel, called my dad and he goes "mortgage is 1475" in a min. #bloodybrilliant
  • what is worse my excel spreadsheet problems or the dolphins losing again I am glad I made comfort food today Rigatoni and meatballs soon
  • dear powerpoint, don’t blame me. the charts are the ones who are hard to manage. sincerely, excel
  • Teaching myself how to do complex things in Excel. I think my boss is a bit bemused at how excited I’m getting about formulae.
  • I am forced to conclude that no one over 35 knows how to use Excel. Just answered the same question 12 times.
  • So apparently I need to re-learn all math ever for the GMAT… Doesn’t everyone just use Excel? #fml #unnecessary
  • At work breaking from monotonous spreadsheet entries. Working on these with a hangover=not pleasant. #MyEyesFeelLikeJello

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Excel Twitter 20111003

imageDonโ€™t wear bright shoes, and avoid bosses who colour the Excel sheets yellow. These things do not make your spreadsheets seem more epic.

  • Two hours work on a massive Excel file wasted because "Select All" turned out to really mean "Select Some." #MSfail
  • I love listening to video game music while at work. It makes Excel spreadsheets seem so much more epic.
  • 140 characters just isn’t enough to respond. I’ll send you an excel spreadsheet ๐Ÿ™‚
  • Love blowing people’s mind with Excel, I am amazed after all these years people still don’t realize what this program can do.
  • Have to remember how to do charts showing standard deviation in Excel – blaarrghhh #braincellsdying
  • My boss swears he is doing big things by highlighting this excel spreadsheet..yellow everywhere…smh
  • looking for a cave with a electrical outlet so I can hide out and finish my kettle spreadsheet uninterrupted…
  • I’m really sad – I have an excel spreadsheet that I copy each year with all names on & then I start the present hunt
  • OK, Excel, you know we have this love/hate relationship. Today’s mostly the latter. Don’t worry, it’s not me, it’s you. Definitely you.
  • I wish there was a way to post an Excel document to Twitter. This thing is a work of art!! #nerd
  • And btw THANK GOD FOR EXCEL. College made me fall out of love with Math but it made me fall in love with YOU ๐Ÿ˜€
  • You know you’re tired when you’re wondering why iTunes isn’t recognizing your iPod…and then realize you actually opened Excel.
  • The brighter the color of your shoes, the less you know about pivot tables in Excel.
  • Thanks for enabling my tantrum guys, I will never use excel again after this I swear. Not worth my bp going up!
  • I been pretending to work all day, with this old Excel document open & a piece of paper in front of me
  • I wish I wasn’t still at workโ€ฆ and I wish I wasn’t still using Excel. #fb

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Excel Twitter 20111001

image Some days, itโ€™s tough to deal with Excel and your boss at the same time. Maybe a 460 word explanation would help. Or a quick dance with a robot.

  • Excel isn’t a word-processing software. It’s a spreadsheet software. I think many people don’t know this thing.
  • mike can you help? they hid that thing on my computer where you turn the page like sideways you mean landscape? #excel #youshoudnthavajob
  • day two of green charts . . . has Excel become self-aware? is it making it’s own decisions? why does it love green so much? #Excel #Weird
  • So I dreamt I was dancing to Swan Lake in an Excel worksheet with the robot Microsoft help assistant. He was quite the mover. I ? Excel
  • Excel file is open and your boss asks you, What are you working on?#stupidquestion
  • I had just had to go over order of operations with my boss in Excel…please, promotion, you can’t come soon enough.
  • Dear Pivot Table, thank you. I would have totally lost it and given up on this job (and smashed the monitor) if it weren’t for you.
  • I decided to type "yo boss" in row 66580 of a work excel spreadsheet. I wonder if he’ll notice/be mad.
  • Today, I had to teach my boss how to select multiple cells in Excel using the control key. After 40 minutes, she still doesn’t understand.
  • So much work to get finished before the end of the day, so I’m off to the spreadsheet mines.
  • OMG its soo fun troubleshooting in excel. And im not being sarcastic.
  • My boss needs to stop messing with my excel workbook. I just spent all this time repairing a broken formula. >:[]
  • For my 1st project my boss sent me an Excel spreadsheet for quoting and said "Here, I want this automated." #imnotaprogrammer
  • Well, I just sent a 460-word explanation about a data-entry and pivot table excel sheet. Probably won’t be enough.
  • I’d love to have a friend who is a Microsoft Excel junkie.

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Excel Twitter 20110930

imagePlease use Excel for good, not evil. Create an Excel bakery, instead of a hitlist.

  • I got an Excel spreadsheet of the ppl who owe me money, in time it will become a hitlist #sorrymom
  • Adding charts to Excel spreadsheets gives the illusion I’m actually accomplishing something meaningful. #lifepostcollege #PGP
  • It’s so dangerous we are warned weekly. Every year, students die in tragic grouped excel worksheet fires.
  • My mom can’t make a call on a cell, but that woman can make an excel spreadsheet like no one else
  • Just because I do charts in nice colours, Boss thinks I can do chart magic. Had you let me attend the advanced Excel course, maybe la…
  • I will be burning my microsoft excel workbook at the end of the semester
  • Made so many pie charts yesterday, I think I call my office the "Excel Bakery."
  • D.O.N.E!! Dear boss, just coz I rock at Excel does NOT mean I love working on it!! -_- #grumpy
  • 30 years old and i’ve never done a spreadsheet before. HOW DO YOU USE EXCEL :/
  • Having a bad day?I’m working in financial budgets and am stuck in a massive Excel spreadsheet. You should be feeling better now.
  • I’ve just unbodged someone’s spreadsheet and created an efficient, workable document. In my mind, this makes up for what I lack in html.
  • Does anyone know of a way to share an excel workbook on twitter
  • I have no idea how to work Excel. How do I make a spreadsheet? Why is this necessary?
  • Oooh, I’ve had a ‘minor loss of fidelity’. But don’t worry, ‘im indoors, I am not seeing the milkman. Just a problem with Excel
  • MS Excel is the greatest trick Bill Gates has ever pulled on mankind to delude them to think that they actually do some work!

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Excel Twitter 20110929

image Yes, we get older, but not smarter, and we deal with our Excel problems any way that we can. But, to be fair, maybe that computer had the Etch-a-Sketch version of Excel.

  • Computer screen freezes on Twitter.. in work.. Boss walking down the corridor.. mild panic.. And just before he arrives.. Open Excel! yey!
  • Wahhhhh, someone fix my stupid excel spreadsheet! It’s totally broken ๐Ÿ™ I hate you excel.
  • You know you’re serious with Excel when your boss offers to drop 8GB RAM into your system to handle the processing.
  • This is how I ensure my productivity when I am tasked with making charts and graphs in Excel. http://t.co/IX0r4Rn8
  • Up at 7am playing with Excel pivot tables #rocknrolllifestyle
  • Finally got the macros in this Excel spreadsheet to work. Let the game simulations begin!
  • You know you need a happy hour or to go halloween deco shopping when you write "bat country" in your excel report.
  • Way to impress me #excel! =Upper got an out loud cheer at my desk.
  • i need to learn how to do fancy pie charts in Excel. apparently they are crowd pleasing.
  • Then, one boss, who’s been rather intimidating and dismissive, asked me to redo somebody’s matrix because I’m "obviously skilled" in Excel.
  • I’m either gonna really love or hate Microsoft excel when I’m done with this project. Still too early to tell…
  • ‘we can’t use your pivot table because our people don’t know Excel very well’ Excuse me? D:
  • so importing data into excel spreadsheets is probably not on my top 10 favorite hobbies nor does my attention span appreciate this activity
  • I am such a nerd that I’m actually excited about studying linear programming in my spreadsheet modeling class.
  • Dear Excel, why must you fight me this wonderful fall morning? WHY? #excel #justaskin
  • Scared to fall asleep tonight. Not because of spiders or rats… because I’m afraid of having dreams about making charts in Excel. #longday
  • Just witnessed a 40 year old woman shake her computer screen because she erased a workbook in Excel. Yes that’ll fix it lady.

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Excel Twitter 20110928

Do you reward your perseverance in Excel with Welsh cakes? Apparently they should be served with butter and jam. They probably go nicely with coffee too.

  • That awkward moment when your boss says good morning to you with a big smile on his face and you are too focused on Excel to smile back ._.
  • trying to overcome what’s looking like a #MurphyDay after a morning glasses search (cat related). Quarantined with an excel spreadsheet.
  • Teaching my 11 year old son Word tables and Excel charts is proving more stressful than implementing a 600 user system. #fail #aaaagh
  • i would like to proclaim my love of coffee, and excel autosum.
  • spent a good portion of the afternoon getting overly excited about a jazzy excel spreadsheet I made. Surely that’s not healthy… #ubergeek
  • j has pretty much sorted it all for me too…he has skills I do not. Also known as saving. And excel spreadsheet thingies.
  • I may suck at doing a statement of cashflows but at least I can make my excel spreadsheet aesthetically pleasing ๐Ÿ™‚
  • No matter how high the number gets, I flat out refuse to add a "Cosmetics" row to my budget spreadsheet.
  • When I plug realistic numbers into this spreadsheet, the result is a tiny little pile of broken dreams. I think Excel must be broken.
  • Proper temp work today – massive excel spreadsheet & treated like dirt.
  • After almost 2 yrs of me sending out same Excel spreadsheet, rep asks me: What does it mean when line is crossed thru the store name? >_<
  • i can’t believe i’m going to say this, but i was just calmed by an excel spreadsheet.
  • I am on line 451 of 1284 on my spreadsheet. If I get to 1111 I’m going to reward myself with a welsh cake.
  • dear excel. do not tell me what i cannnot do with my worksheet. its MY worksheet!!
  • just lost 5 years of my life due to a pivot table that refreshed incorrectly. excel and I are not on good terms right now.
  • It’s nice to be wanted, even if it is just to sort out a mess of an Excel spreadsheet!

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