Warning — if you try to attract suitors with your spreadsheet stories, you might end up with Excel as your dinner companion. Of course, in some cases, that is the best choice. 😉 I have beaten an Excel =IF,VLOOKUP formula. I feel like I’ve just finished kiling the last boss on the internet. ► Someone…

More tweaking on the Excel Twitter layout – now, instead of the tweeter’s name, there is a link to each tweet. Click the blue triangle to see the tweeter’s info, and any replies to the tweet. If you prefer these links, or the names, please let me know. Wow! I saw excel used to report…

If you struggle long enough with Excel charts, will all that hard work help you lose weight? Throw in a few high fives too – they’re good for burning calories. Trying to solve this gigantic spreadsheet is kind of like playing minesweeper on expert. On attempt #6… #ialwaysplayonbeginner Linh Nguyen ‏ @linhnguyen42 I’m going to…

If you have to Google for "how to make a pie chart", you probably shouldn’t be in charge of the cookie sales spreadsheet. It could turn into the white screen of doom. Excel makes me want to strangle a kitten. And I love kittens. Janna Strege ‏ @jstregs Today must be PowerPoint vs.Excel charts day….

Pretty charts or yucky formulas? Which would you rather stare at? Do you need special glasses to see them in 3-D? Pretty colours are my bar graph are pretty but I don’t need pretty, I need symbols. Excel, you lose for ease of usage. Tricia-Lee Keller ‏ @behaviouratplay Oh my god. I made a graph…

When you start to get annoyed, remember that all those people who don’t know how to format a worksheet, or save an Excel file, might be the main reason you still have a job! I swear this spreadsheet has been formatted badly just to annoy me… @NahNahIsLoveYou i am a spreadsheet guru. (and by guru,…

While you’re dunking your biscuits, and looking at the funny shapes in the Excel charts, try not to become bitter. Remember, Excel is sexy! dad just told me he’s proud of my excel spreadsheet. i actually feel genuinely accomplished right now. #thanksdad @rcarter719 science is just putting data into excel spreadsheets and looking at the…

While working in Excel, beware of the feral pivot tables. And if you’re on your mobile phone, calling for Excel help, don’t believe the forum geeks who tell you that VLOOKUPs are simple! Am I some sort of savant that I understand how to create a spreadsheet? Why is excel intimidating to most people? @xeniterhood…

While you’re sitting in Starbucks, sipping coffee and looking at your Excel file, you can admire the modern art that your Excel sheets resemble. Quick! Somebody give me an umbrella drink! I just had an urge to work with Excel. HEEEEEEELP!!! @JohnnyDiesel Twitter just became MUCH more interesting than this excel spreadsheet. @NewDealGin I have…

Excel might not send you flowers, but it can still bring some joy to your life. Until it gets too complicated. hey thanks! It was eye opening to keep a spreadsheet of your day! I’ve since tried to be slightly less boring! 😉 @JennLukas I had to ask my dad for help with an excel…

Yes, creating Excel formulas is serious business, but be careful that you don’t burn your baguettes while working on largely pointless charts. What is an indication of someone doing really complicated work? Ans: MS Excel says "not responding" . @ndolia  Ohh my goooodness! I can work a bloody formula excel sheet but I’m struggling with…

If Excel formatting starts to look sexy to you, you should try to go out on a Friday night, instead of staying in, and turning Excel into art. I know Excel isn’t designed for what I’m doing, but I’m SO CLOSE to getting it to work. #madscientistintraining @asrivkin Oh, the nightmare of the wedding breakfast seating…

Has Excel earned your respect, even if it turns treacherous, and crashes now and then? Maybe you should use it at work, to meet those productivity targets. Dear Excel, i’d absolutely love it you actually oh I don’t know… did what I asked? @brushtail42 I’m not sure I’ll ever love Excel the way I love…

Yes, it’s a good idea to give your Excel file a meaningful name. However, it’s even more important to save your work in the right format, and watch what you’re sorting. Thank you, Excel, for getting me so used to seeing stuff like -8.91305E-11 that a simple 0 prompts me to check all of my…

Yes, it’s true – a pivot table could be lying to you. If that gives you nightmares, maybe you should give up Excel for Lent, or go back to college. The more proficient I become in Excel the more I am realizing that pivot tables can be filthy filthy liars @jivedanson My rising proficiency in…

What shade of grey would Basil Fawlty choose for his spreadsheets? It probably doesn’t matter, because I doubt that he ever finished a task. When I get a thrill of anticipation waiting for a pivot table to update from a cube, reality hits: I need to get out more @tara_bt I was going to make…

If you succeed in making an Excel chart, try to avoid scaring the cats – and the women at Starbucks. "Inconsistent formula" feature on #Excel just saved me at least an hr from figuring out what’s wrong with my massive spreadsheet. #thankyou @vinsationation Creating, formatting, and updating spreadsheets makes organizing so much easier. Until I…

There is a slightly different format for the Excel tweet collection this week. I’m keeping the author names, but not the avatars. I found those distracting – how about you? Did you like them? Never would have thought that making a clustered and stacked graph in Excel would be so much work. Hope my head…

There is a "break a leg, then open Excel" joke for theatre majors, somewhere in my head, but I can’t think of it right now. And remember to be careful what you tweet about, or you could lose your job! Ashley @TangeloFlavored Spent the better half of this afternoon creating an excel spreadsheet for all…

If you are going to get sick, make sure it’s not on advanced Excel macro day, or you will miss all the mind-brimming knowledge. That would make you blue…or peach, or purple, or green. Vigour Mortis @Vigour Sent home from work which for once totally sucks because it’s advanced excel macro course day today 🙁…

Even if you have a kid who looks like an Excel worksheet, please don’t name that kid "Exploded Pie". Pivot Table would be a good name though. kyle cassidy @kylecassidy Woman sitting across from me has said the words "pivot table" 20 times in a 60 second phone conversation. Try that sometime. Sigrid Smith @SiggiSm…

You’re a genius, obviously, or you wouldn’t be working with Excel. Could anything kill your love for it? mattgammarayz @mattgammarayz Procrastination is at spreadsheet depths. DJ Bahler @DJBAHLER If I could make a graph to show how little I knew how to use excel for this lab report I would. Ben Simo @QualityFrog My love…

Happy Valentine’s Day! Everyone loves Excel, and I hope you like the new format for this daily collection of Excel tweets. Thanks to @L33smith for his suggestion to include names, so you can follow some of these interesting tweeters. Alicia Mooradian @aliciamooradian Using a magnifying glass to read an excel spreadsheet…at what point did I…

While you plan your non-alcoholic activities in Excel, don’t stare at the soccer ball that is moving across your spreadsheet. Man, if I’d known I’d still have to mess with pivot tables in Excel all day, I wouldn’t have gone through the hassle of becoming a falconer. Didn’t know how to use excel to determine…

Excel can keep track of seal scat and nap times, but can’t replace a map of Canada. Good to know! It’s painful to work on an Excel spreadsheet after someone with very little Excel knowledge created it. using futura gives this excel spreadsheet i’m making to mandate various life goals seem orwellian and official An…

Keep track of your clothes in Excel, and you’ll look good while creating those masterpieces, or when crying. Work is more rewarding if you save every Excel spreadsheet as "Masterpiece1.0.xls" and leave the office shouting "My work here is complete!" workplace tip: if you want to scare a coworker, tell them you’ll send an Excel…

Don’t give up! Your boss might learn how to change the font size in Excel, and you’ll learn to love VLOOKUP again. Who’da thunk? I got an answer to my Excel problem from a water conservation website – not even Office help could help. Oh cool. Currently running whole business from dog-eared Excel sheet. Would…

Teachers who are opposed to pie charts, and cars that have spreadsheet striped paint jobs? Yes, there is hope for the world, after all. My creativity is currently being used to leave witty comments on the excel spreadsheet I’m working with. Excel doesn’t permit scatter plots as pivot charts. It disturbs me how much that…

Excel should not make you cry – unless you’re looking at a pie chart that a distinguished doctor made. Just ran out of cells on an excel spreadsheet. What a surreal experience…. Just accidentally shut my excel document without saving…5 hours of work gone…the hysteria has passed now. I love it when distinguished doctors can…

Do you have pivot table problems? Never mind, we’re not allowed to talk about pivot tables. Look a the chart that the baby made! And if you’re looking for Excel videos on YouTube, remember to start on the Contextures channel. 😉 Wow, I really just sat here and formatted an excel spreadsheet for 30 min…

I know how to work Excel for 5 minutes – how about you? However, that might not be enough time to colour code everything and sort the data 8 different ways. When sending a spreadsheet comment only as needed, too much info. can be distracting. #Excel #Excelbestpractice #smallbiz Every time I create a pivot table,…

Tea might be able to solve your Excel problem, unless it’s the Windows Excel Word 2003 Illustrator kind. Those problems might need Bill Gates to solve them. Who knew making a graph in excel could be as hard as cracking the da Vinci code I hate when instructors say excel does it all for you…….

Does work seem a bit Groundhog Day today? Maybe that’s a result of all the backwards compatibility problems. I hate Psysc 241. Statistics is such a waste of my time. All we do is put numbers into excel. And make graphs. #pointless When in doubt, add a pivot table. You will look and feel smarter….

Excel can help you look after Grandma, stop your heart, and learn how magnets work. What other program can do all that? First thing I do when I’m going to work with a data sheet in Excel: adjust font to Arial, font size 9. Can’t. Handle. Calibri. I built a self-induction calculator in excel. Very…

Would you put your resumé into Excel, or put Excel into your resumé? And what colours would you use – the background could be important! currently operating under the assumption that the background colors of my excel spreadsheet greatly affects its effectiveness. nothing beats good old fashioned excel if you know how to code it…

Yes, that fan sound is frightening, knowing that Excel could crash at any time. Make a pivot table, and you’ll feel beastly again. I have only written two lines of Excel automation code and already my will to live is struggling under the onslaught. Must be a better way. Sometimes it’s good to make your…