The holidays are over, and it’s time to get back to work. Do you remember how to use Excel? After the Holidays My Excel brain felt a bit rusty this morning – how about yours? Excel Tips and Tutorials If you’re stuck on an Excel problem, check the tutorials on my Contextures site – you…
How long does it take your boss to break your latest workbook? Hours? Minutes? Can you use magic to fix the Excel problems that they cause, even during a full moon? If not, call your Mom, and maybe she can help.
Do your work-from-home friends call for Excel help? Do they forget to save their work, and have AutoSave turned off? If so, send them an invoice, and be sure to include their zip code in the total amount.
Here’s this week’s collection of Excel tweets, for your Friday entertainment. Which one sounds like something that you could have posted? And watch the video below, if you too want to make VLOOKUP work properly!
Is your Excel file so complicated that you’re afraid to breathe near it? If you take out a few of the pie charts, it might work better.
Could you talk about Excel for days? Are you already doing that? Is your dog tired of listening to you, and ready to pass an Excel test? Maybe the sound of a giant pivot table crashing will get you to stop!
Now that you’re working from home, do you spend your days yelling (out loud) at Excel? Or are you too busy crying, because your workbook didn’t save? Or did Elon Musk’s Excel list, with its merged cells, make you cry?
Here’s this week’s collection of Excel tweets, for your Friday entertainment. Which one sounds like something that you could have posted?
What’s your Excel confession? Does it make you want to throw your computer out the window? Do you use dirty hacks? Don’t be embarrassed – we all have Excel secrets!
Lots of us are working from home now, and Excel is our new best friend. It’s time to teach the kids how to make spreadsheets, and be careful that you don’t spill your drinks on the keyboard!
Can you ever have too many monitors, when you’re working in Excel? Should your dog have his own monitor, when you’re working from home? Maybe Google knows the answers to these important questions!
Well, that was quite a week! To cheer them up, tell your friends a few Excel macro stories (from a safe social distance). Then, teach your dog a new Excel trick, while you work from home, and remember to wash your hands.
After a day of Excel work, do you rush home to play in Excel? Or are your arms too tired, after all the cutting and pasting? A spreadsheet assassin wouldn’t snivel about things like that!
Could you date someone who doesn’t have a favourite formula? What about someone who uses their Excel powers for evil? Maybe you’re better off with someone who doesn’t even understand your love for Excel.
Do your co-workers ask you for Excel help, after things get swirly bad? Maybe they should spend less time playing Tic-tac-toe, and more time learning about macros. Unless Bill Jelen is right, and it’s the beginning of the end for Excel VBA!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Did you send a lovely card to your true love, Microsoft Excel? Or did you show your love and respect by avoiding 3-D charts. Thanks to Patrick Matthews for his contribution
Do any of your Excel files look like an episode of Art Attack? Are they filled with pictures of alien worlds and robots? If so, you probably shouldn’t mention Excel in your dating profile.
No matter how long you’ve been using Excel, it can still make you cry sometimes. To feel better, learn a new advanced formula, and sing about Pivot Charts.
Is Excel winning the work battles today, or are you? Maybe it’s time to go home to your family, and let Excel build some charts automagically!
Enjoy your work in the Excel fields today! And remember, it’s 2020 now, so check your Nyquil before you drink it – your spreadsheet enemies might have tampered with it.
Is it torture to watch your boss work Excel? Are you having trouble seeing your website in Excel? Don’t worry – to take your mind off of your troubles, just open another few thousand Excel files!
Should a co-worker be arrested, if they lied about their pivot table skills? Should you call Bill Gates to report it? Anyway, don’t spend all day admiring your Excel charts, even if they’re the first thing you think about every day.
If you get your work done quickly, with a bit of Excel magic, you can spend the rest of the year scrolling through blank spreadsheets. There might even be time for a few pivot table parades!
If you’re panicking at work because you don’t know Excel, just remember – it probably won’t kill you. Soon, Excel will be your favourite app, and you’ll be making spreadsheets for everything! Just try to avoid summoning any demons while you learn about pivot tables.
If you and Excel spend every day together, that’s EXCELlent! Just remember to explain what your colour coding means, and I hope that Excel doesn’t go into too many death spirals.
Is Excel always open when you’re at work? And at home? Be careful – that could lead to spreadsheet-related anxiety!
Yes, those Excel cut and paste errors can ruin your day, but try not to think about them all evening too. Do some non-numeric things to take your mind off the problems, or use Excel to build a windmill! And watch the video at the end, if you want to fix those mysterious pivot table…
You don’t have to be a Virgo, like me, to love Excel, but I’m sure it helps. And it’s a good thing that I know how to build pivot tables, because golf is definitely not one of my talents!
In a spreadsheet competition, which Excel moves would earn you a gold medal? Or are you busy making Excel artwork, and using pivot table witchcraft, so you don’t have time to compete?
Could you get through a work day without opening Excel? Or would that lead to crying and fist shaking? If so, make yourself a flawless pivot table, and add a note in your Excel planner. And watch the video below, if your computer has trouble with correct syntax for an Excel VLOOKUP formula
Does Excel make you want to yeet your computer? If you’re not sure what “yeet” means, ask your kids, after you send them some Excel tips!
Even if you know lots about Excel, a few classes might help. You wouldn’t want to move to Japan, and get fired on your first day! And remember, if you think that Excel ate your work, take Beyoncé’s advice, and scroll “to the left, to the left”.
For new problems at work, is a pivot table usually the answer? Or do you create a whole new spreadsheet? Just don’t give the problem to a co-worker who doesn’t know how AutoSum works!
I like the Excel memes that one person tweeted, but Excel wasn’t around, when I was 6 years old. Kids today sure are lucky!
Are you more likely to be killed by a rattlesnake or a spreadsheet? If you’d rather not think about that, just watch this music video about charts, to help you relax.