Yes, some days it feels like a Greek tragedy when you’re working in Excel. Eat a bucket of popcorn, and try to forget your pain. I am at that place in building a graph in excel where I am just randomly clicking stuff to see if it works. WORK. How do I get the lines…
Halloween is just around the corner, and Excel might be a perfect way to scare those trick-or-treaters! Just don’t let it become the “babe” of your existence. Yes. I just e-mail you a screenshot of my Excel workbook so you’ll have to key in the data just like I did. I spend more than 25%…
When you’re working on your life plan charts in Excel, don’t use your phone calculator to get the totals. Shout-out to my high school biology teacher for showing me how to make Excel charts. I had NO CLUE how much I’d use that skill as an adult. Astonishing, having to explain to someone that excel…
Would the world be a better place if all kids learned how to use Excel and make pivot tables? Maybe we could start with celebration noises instead. Call me old fashion but I’d rather take 30 seconds to draw a chart by hand than take an hour to learn to operate the spaceship that is…
Use your common sense in Excel, or you could go from slinging drinks, to making pivot tables, to oblivion. Housemate doing fun craft while I teach myself to use a Pivot table. One of us is getting a raw deal. I don’t think it’s him. Scumbag Microsoft – "Oh! Finally got your VBA code to…
If your boss loves animated charts, you might need to start tracking your blood pressure in Excel. everyone remembers their first pivot table No, really, Excel. Sometimes we really do want that leading zero. *watches 5 hours of work disappear* *crawls under desk with a bottle* "BAM!! Not only is the chart animated, the colour…
Pivot tables and baby corn? Now that would be an interesting talent for the Miss America pageant! Or is it just a stupid thing? I used the color option in excel on a data sheet once and now anytime there is a colored box my boss assumes it’s my work. All the color! 😀 For…
Working at a religious festival shouldn’t be a problem – you certainly need faith to work with Excel! Well that, and the power of VLOOKUP. Went to work’s corporate Excel training day today. I certainly did not excel. Just learned that if the Excel 2007 formula bar is active, I can’t close the workbook. How…
Would it kill you to solve that Excel problem? Maybe not, but it might leave you in a pickle. "Dancing in your chair in a cubicle is an art, and technically IS helping me fill out this excel sheet" – me to my boss Feel like my laptop and excel have joined #strikeseason and refuse…
Remember to turn off that macro recorder, even if you’re just making pie charts or helping Grandma learn Excel. Otherwise, you’ll end up with thousands of lines of code, and it won’t be poetry. Old is when creating a complex excel worksheet gives you thrills.. I’m old. How many tests am I going to write…
If your first date isn’t going well, try to impress her with a pivot table. If that fails, a pig roast, with an Excel chart, might do the trick. Laying in bed & I just had a brilliant idea for an Excel sheet for work. Huge timesaver. Thought you’d all like to know. Nothing makes…
Some days it feels like you’re fighting bears to get your Excel work done. Other days, you’re just fighting with the printer. How to be an engineer: 1. Learn how to use Excel. 2. Make charts all day and look busy. 3. Use big words so no one knows what you’re doing. Today’s a day…
Do your best to fix those formulas, or you might thwart someone’s plans for world domination. Or worse – all your charts could change to orange and maroon. Boss man asked for high level view of data. One minute later I gave him a Pivot Table. Boss man mind = blown. If I have to…
It might not be boring to watch someone make an Excel chart if it featured Daffy Duck, or a few magic tricks. I hate it at work when I create some really awesome Excel formula or Access VBA code. No one understand why I get stoked. Such a nerd. /sigh Just needed to do a…
If women won’t talk to you, try sending them birthday wishes in Excel code. My boss needed help with Excel. Turns out he just didn’t know how to center justify values in each box. EASY FIX FOR ALL THE BROWNIE POINTS Slowly going mad writing an Excel workbook. Quick, send emergency beer! First lesson for…
No, Excel isn’t laughing at you, unless you’re wearing a Casio-style calculator watch, and yelling “Pudding!” Finally winding down from work. Why so late? Suffice it to say, Excel auto-recover will be 1st against the wall when the revolution comes. My boss asked me at the last minute to do something impossible in Excel. I…
When it gets too hot to work Excel, we’ll have to pull out our big, old calculators. Spent my entire morning formatting the excel charts my coworker made so that they didn’t look like a 4th grader made them. My boss just did jaw dropping things with excel and macros. His skills are wasted as…
If you can’t remember how to scroll in Excel, and are thinking about making charts from embroidery thread, you’re probably not an analyst. Ridiculously geeky right now, but it makes me SO happy to work with other people who know what a Pivot Table is. Without Excel, I’d be creating a pushpin line graph out…
Why? Why? Why? Why? If you have to ask, you haven’t tried to help someone with an Excel problem, over the phone. I now know how to create pivot charts in Excel. I’m not yet sure how to make this benefit my life. My colleagues’ use of Excel spreadsheets is getting beyond a joke. (Just…
Does your morning Excel ritual include air drumming, ninja kicks and coffee? It’s scary how much I am enjoying watching Excel tutorials on YouTube… I need friends. nobody ever enjoys Excel…and if they do then they’re either super geeky or are lying! so my parents are angry at me because i can’t teach my mum…
Do you agree that pivot tables are Microsoft’s best invention? Before you decide, remember that you can use a pivot table to find breweries. ‘It’s just a math problem’ I said. ‘I can do that in Excel’ I said. 69 columns of vlookups & nested if’s later, ready to start debugging! I have Excel sheets…
Important food-related questions of the day: Would you rather smell egg salad, or work on this Excel chart? Should you create a chart on an empty stomach? If you think Word is merciless, never anger Excel. Hell hath no fury like an incorrect Pivot Table. boss commented on how my excel spreadsheet was not captivating….
Are you a magician with Excel, or does it depend on the question? Weird that almost every online publication uses excel graphs. They’re so ugly. When you finally learn how to work on MS Excel, you know you’ve done atleast one thing right in your life. One can never have enough Pivot Tables! #microsoft #excel…
What a coincidence! There is an “Excel at the theatre” tweet in this week’s twitter post, here at the Excel Theatre blog. Have a steaming cup of coffee, and see if you can find that tweet. you know what Excel. You win for right now. I give up trying to fix these charts I have…
Would you rather have a spreadsheet full of statistics, or one with film choices? Been at work 30 minutes and already locked up my Excel spreadsheet #goingtobealongday OMG, IS EXCEL STUPID OR STUBBORN?! stop changing my 1/3 into 1-mar!!!! i’m not typing the date!!!!!!!! :@@ My bosses love my excel spreadsheet checks: =IF(J15<TODAY(),"error: come on…
You might have to wait 20 minutes or 20 years, or go Back to the Future with Biff, eventually something exciting will happen in Excel. This excel spreadsheet can do formulas I don’t understand. Not long until the robots take over. "Minor loss of fidelity" reports MS Excel… as long as my spreadsheet works, I…
If you can crash Excel with 1000 lines of data, what will happen if you use 5465485213214 functions? Maybe Google knows. work went well =3= aside for falling prey to the old hide workbook vs hide cell mistake in excel and having a heart attack for a full minute Just pulling tons of data today….
Nap or spreadsheet? That is the question. Maybe 2500 popup messages, and a bit of rap, will wake you up. Yesterday I watched 5 people huddle around a computer for 40 minutes trying to make a graph using Microsoft word because excel was too hard. Problem with a big lunch is you feel like taking…
Did Mr. Rogers teach you how to make pie charts? Probably not, but he can still make you feel better when things go wrong in Excel. Remember – you are special! boss just called my excel project the "Model-T" of spreadsheets. not a compliment. I’m rich! I’m rich! I’m rich! Wait. Never mind. Stupid Excel….
Just sit there and look good. If you create a pivot table, it might cause an earthquake. Or a rainbow. im going to sit here and cry until all 5 million of these excel graphs fix themselves #productive A days worth of excel training and now I can colour code sheets! #rainbows My Excel skills…
Macros will not explode your Excel workbooks (usually!), and they are more impressive than Lucky Charms shapes. Dang. Just received an #Excel workbook that puts all mine to shame. #funwithdata #nerdalicious The highlight of my day was finding an Excel shortcut that saved me hours of work. Nerdy? I don’t care. Nothing screams wild like…
You can learn all kinds of useful Excel tricks on YouTube, but I haven’t seen any cake chart tutorials there. When making excel charts becomes exciting its time to go outside The NCAA’s online stream ‘boss button’ is greatly improved over the previous blank Excel spreadsheet. saying that i know pivot table during the interview…
Maybe you should watch March Madness, instead of changing the formats in that Excel file. That might prevent people from getting steamed. No dad I’m not gonna do the spreadsheet now, I’ll do it later. When you have to tell yourself to be smarter than the spreadsheet you created it is time for more coffee…
Did the professor deduct marks for the exploding pie chart (Hooray!) or add extra marks (Noooo!)? Whoever says men don’t have feelings has never tried to print an excel workbook. I feel right now that is for damn sure. im probably the only person on earth who is incapable of making simple graphs on excel……honestly…
How was your weekend? Did you have an exciting pivot table marathon, and dreams about your 10-year-old version of Excel? Or were you stuck in March break traffic? I wish I had better Excel skills. The problem is that I only need them about every five years or so. Excel is all the software I…
It’s not just Excel — who doesn’t do stupid things on a regular basis? And I’m not laughing at your pie chart – it’s beautiful! Oh my god, I love #excel. It actually works 95% of the time and does exactly what I want it to <3 I would be the worst senator. Want my…