If old Excel is stupid, and Excel 2010 is suckier, no wonder Excel is so complicated, and makes us sleepy.
- seriously excel is making me sleepy. or maybe just work.
- why the hell do i need to use excel for my finance assignments and tutes. EXCEL IS SO COMPLICATED….
- I was so excited when I got to make my very own pivot table! And then I got to make a bunch of them @ktjatja #powerwalktalks
- Bah. Old Excel is being stupid on desktop. Going to laptop & Office 2007. #stupidhomework
- Refactoring an Excel VBA application. 40 pages of "copy/pasted" code.
- Mom’s doing spreadsheet of pros and cons for grad school now. MOL she’s a nut job, my mama
- Never wants to look at another spreadsheet again, sooo many contingency tables
- Lunching after spending nearly all of today in a spreadsheet hell. My ‘I ♥ SPREADSHEETS’ mug has been baished to the kitchen. #unEXCELlent
- Think you love fashion…overheard @ dinner ‘I have an excel spreadsheet to coordinate my outfit selection’ #amazing
- bored so i’m making a spreadsheet.
- Got some interesting customer datasets, nothing better than playing with data and #PowerPivot 🙂
- I have not touched Microsoft Excel since Business Keyboarding class… This is going to take awhile
- Just had my work machine upgraded to Windows 7 with Excel 2010. Is it just me or is Excel 2010 suckier than Excel 2003?
- Advanced excel training at work tomorrow, who plans things like this for a Monday?? #mondaysareforsleeping
- <insert pivot table gag here>
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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.
Please remember that Excel is fun, especially if you’re not having a good day, and lacking caffeine.