Keeping all your related fundraising data in different Excel files sounds like a great idea. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?
- Using Excel hurts me in the thinking part.
- Took me 4 flipping hours to create an excel supplies list…I need at least 12 hours of stupid to function normally after this
- Excel, you win. I am not smart enough to figure you out. (insert raspberry noise here)
- Just had to change the colours in a spreadsheet bcoz they were "man city blue".. Pfft, men!
- I didn’t know that Ctrl+W would close a file in Excel. #ThingILearnedTodayByAccident
- Time sure does fly when you’re going cross-eyed staring at an Excel spreadsheet…. When the hell did it get to be 4 o’clock?
- I just fell in love with Excel. I know I’m a little late to party, but so glad I figured it out!
- First day of grad school at U. Iowa MHA. Key question: can I build Excel pivot tables? Or find someone who can?
- last night I had a dream in which I dreamed a solution to an Excel based problem I have! And it will work… how cool is that??
- Man the power went off and came back on. If this Excel didn’t autosave…….
- I have spent the last 4 days building an excel function for work thats 1000s of chars long to find out data validation allows 255 chars max
- working on a budget spreadsheet. is this what normal people do all day? i usually just play with clothes.
- so many ifs that Excel has ran out of colours 😉 lol
- Me: You sure you can handle 110,000 records? Excel: SURE! Me: OK…. (click) Excel: BAARRRRFFFF AUUUUGHHHH
- Something hilarious just happened in Excel when I did a Find and Replace. No space to explain it, trust me, it was goddamn funny
- Everybody in this room uses pivot table but only 3 raised their hand to #powerpivot
- yes i would love to clean up your excel mess
- Stupidity at its best- Shut down an excel file without saving, there goes my night!
- Yearly donors are in 1 excel file, monthly in another, lapsed donors in a different Excel file. Is that a problem? #BadFundraisingQuotes
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If old Excel is stupid, and Excel 2010 is suckier, no wonder Excel is so complicated, and makes us sleepy. 
Don’t stay up until stupid o’clock, working on your Excel files. That could lead to eye problems, and sheets going psycho.
If you colour code the entire Excel sheet, drink gallons of coffee, and watch a movie about monkeys, maybe the pivot table will work.
Maybe you’d be excited about a macro that makes Excel say “sorry”, when it tells you how expensive your wedding is.
Home is a good place to work on Excel. It’s quiet, so that makes it easier to recreate the genius, when necessary.
If you are an Excel ninja wizard, maybe you get a magical hat and a black belt. For now, I’ll settle for more coffee.
Not many Excel related tweets yesterday. Maybe everyone was out doing their Christmas shopping.
Watch for circular references, or you might cause a banking crisis, and go easy on the Excel worksheet colours, to save ink.
No details on what that “stupid thing” was, that caused the Excel problems, but maybe it was a 3-D chart.
Hives, headaches, vodka and dark rooms – working with Excel is full of danger!
When you figure out what de-dup means, you can shout it from a mountain top! Or, just sit there, confused.
Shocking news – the paperclip guy in Excel actually helped someone! Maybe he showed someone how to turn off AutoCorrect.
Well, I know what a pivot table is, but had to Google to learn about Lamingtons. They might make the day seem shorter, if you’re spending 8 hours staring at an Excel sheet.
You know it’s a slow weekend for Excel tweets, when the most exciting news is that someone’s dad is Mr. Excel. I wonder if dad knows about that tattoo.
There’s no crying in Excel! Or hiding under your desk, playing Twister. A virtual shredder sounds fun though.
Should a spreadsheet last forever? Maybe not, but get rid of it when it starts to smell dirty.
You can lead an Excel user to macros, but you can’t make him enable. Please keep that in mind when you’re speaking Excel, or trying to divide by zero.
Would you rather eat a pre-packaged butty, or work on Excel? If you choose Excel, we’ll throw in a hammer, and some gin.
As long as it’s only part of your brain that melted, you’ll be fine. Talk to your boss about easing pain points, and then get back to work on that pivot table.
What’s your record for the number of Excel files open at one time? Did you have to stay at work an extra minute, to close them all?
If you want your boss to think you’re a genius, use Excel. Even if you don’t like math, your work will look legit.
There are many uses for Excel workbooks, but did you know that it could plan a pregnancy? I’m not sure how I feel about that.
The boss could at least wait until you get home, before asking you to do more Excel work! Make sure he asks you to review the right data.
Really, what’s wrong with taking notes in Excel? Or making an ancestry pie chart? Or calculating which sweet snack to eat?
What made your heart soar with merriment this weekend? Chocolate and ice cream? Draaitabellen? Racing sheets? Excel pickup lines?
Please learn to love Excel, and get your pivot tables and formulas done quickly. The poor, hungry cats are depending on you!
Forget the double-entendres and stick with the simple, but timeless, Excel jokes. For example, use a clever pun, like “for sum reason”.
Happy Bastille Day! Break free from the spreadsheet cells, and have some geeky fun – far, far away from Excel.
If Excel had been around during that 1969 moon landing, would it have helped with the planning? Or would it have crashed?
Yes, Excel has challenges for all types of users. Some are struggling with colour schemes, and others are solving problems with a symmetric matrix of distances.
It was a weekend packed with Excel fun, and the occasional argument, settled by a pie chart. 
Eye insurance would certainly be useful when working with Excel. And some days the boss needs extra insurance too, after messing with your spreadsheets!
Do you crank up The Boss, or laugh at the boss, while working on your code and formulas in Excel? 
Relax – don’t worry about those extra sheets in every Excel file. Let something else, like pivot tables, be the reason for your meltdown.