Be careful when working with pivot tables! They can turn your world 2 dimensional and take over your brain.
- I wonder if using formulas in an excel spreadsheet for the christmas card list is a tad over the top?
- If I stare at this spreadsheet hard enough, the numbers will magically appear. Its too much work for magic not to be involved.
- I need a big old favor….are any of my followers good with excel and math? I need someone to make me a budget worksheet 🙂
- Living under a flight path only makes u think of all those excel spreadsheet people who’s company’s pay for them to go on pointless trips
- Shazz has all of our gift plans converted to an excel spreadsheet. He is a geek in a very smart way.
- i’m going through pivot table hell right now .. my world has turned 2 dimensional with x and y axis’
- You know studying’s going poorly when you’re excited to take a break to work out an Excel project for 30 minutes. Ugh.
- instead of going to sleep, i make an excel spreadsheet for my dvds. what does this say about me? #weirdlyorganized #toomanydvds #needsleep
- deciding how much i should look into #googlerefine to supplement my work in #excel. anyone have first-hand experience? http://bit.ly/ak6gfC
- My brain is one giant pivot table
- Is bored and doesn’t want to do that stupid Excel thing >_>
- Just learnt how to make a pivot table in Excel. Minor achievement or just a bit sad as i feel quite chuffed with my self.
- Spent Monday night color coding my expenses excel spreadsheet eating favorite red licorice candies from whole foods listening to Xmas carols
- This spreadsheet is going to blow your mind. I’m going to graph things in three dimensions. I’m going to use colors only bees can see.
- Some people thrive on making super-fancy looking Excel spreadsheets. I can’t work with fancy! #ReformattingFrustrations
- an excel spreadsheet sounds boring enough to inspire another Tumbleweed song
- If you work in accting, the auditors are here & you have enough time to attend a basic Excel class, you probably shouldn’t work in accting
- I think the guys fell in love with her. She talked real estate and Excel spreadsheets while downing her dinner. They were in awe.
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There’s more and more Christmas chat in Twitter, and Excel is helping us get ready. Now I have to go and knit a nice spreadsheet for my sister.
Hugs, drinks, fill handles, colour coded Christmas lists — these are things that made the weekend better for some Excel users.
The office air is dry, there’s no T, and the Excel formulas don’t work. We should have some pie, and slack off for the rest of the day.
Yeah, those macros that close a workbook can be hard to debug, if you aren’t paying attention. Maybe you should keep the door closed, to spare your co-workers’ ears, while you deal with that shizz.
Constantly resizing the Excel rows and columns isn’t a sign of OCD, and it’s perfectly normal to work on a spreadsheet in the middle of the night. I hope!
Oh, that poor teacher! I wonder if he drowned in data. 
Take your mom an Excel book, and get a sandwich. Sisters might not be as generous with the food.
If John Legend had stuck with Excel, he could have had his 2.5 minutes of internet fame too. Too bad he switched to that career in music.
Do you use Excel for things like predicting the visible spectra of hydrogen? Or for hand colour coding media lists? Or as a sleep aid?
Of course you’ll never love PowerPoint like you love Excel. Trust Excel. Love Excel.
Well, I haven’t used Excel on a Mac for several years, but it didn’t feel like I was standing on my head. They must have "improved" it in recent versions.
Wine, cheese and pivot tables — someone has discovered my secret! Now I’ll get back to work on that red and green Christmas budget workbook.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently said, "You cannot capture happiness on a spreadsheet any more than you can bottle it" and that was the inspiration for a few Excel tweets yesterday. Elsewhere in the Excel world, people were finding happiness in merged cells and holiday lists.
It’s Black Friday in the USA, so nobody is working. Everyone is out shopping for bargains, or staying home to recuperate from Thursday’s enormous Thanksgiving dinner. In the rest of the world, the Excel work goes on, but at least you can see the weekend from here.
Happy Thanksgiving, if you’re celebrating today! Most of today’s Excel tweeters seem happy to be using Excel, in keeping with the spirit of giving thanks. After a big turkey dinner, we might all need a wicked awesome workout spreadsheet!
Poor Excel is having a bad day – hated by some, accused of basism, and I don’t know as much French as I should, but "je te vomis" doesn’t sound too flattering. Good thing a few people are having fun with their Christmas spreadsheets.
Yes, those Excel files can keep you up all night, just like your kids do (did?). Maybe some magic and/or dragons would scare them away — the Excel files, not the kids!
Using Excel to plan your Thanksgiving dinner does not destroy your soul. Showing your boss how to insert a CD might do that. Anyway, just hide in bed for a while, or have some bacon, and you’ll feel better.
Those Excel workbooks are getting ready for the holidays, and there are many late night sessions ahead. Take time for a latte, or another beverage of choice, in the middle of those mentally exhausting days.
After all your mother has done for you, surely you can give her a bit of help with Excel. It seems easier than moving to Mars — but I haven’t met your mom. 😉
Should people in their 40s and 50s be allowed to work on critical Excel files? Maybe they should leave the charts and junk to the younger folk, and spend their time daydreaming, or playing BlackJack.
If your dad is an accountant, he won’t be impressed if you accidentally print a 65 page workbook. He might like that wallet money tracker though.
Snow day? Who’s having a snow day already? Maybe that’s a typo and the tweeter was reading about Excel on a SLOW day. Yeah, that must be it. But my car has its snow tires on now, so I’m ready!
I’ve never had a spreadsheet chat session, but that "attached pivot table" email sounds familiar.
Maybe you should use the minimalist approach in your Excel files. Then you could stop work at 4 PM, to watch Oprah, instead of working on charts until 3 AM.
You’ve probably had some less than ideal jobs, but were you ever locked in a closet to work on Excel? Now that’s an exercise in torture!
Don’t try to spell concatenate, just use the ampersand operator to 
If you could have one new Excel feature for Christmas, would it be a 3D scatter chart? Of course, if I had a dollar for every data dump, I could buy anything that I wanted!
If your boss went to celebrate at the Giants parade, leaving you with an Excel file that’s due by noon, try eating some chocolate. It might not help, but can’t hurt!