Uh-oh! I use Excel for work, and for leisure, and I think pivot tables are cool. Maybe it’s time for a nap. It is absolutely inexcusable when someone makes an error on an important Excel spreadsheet. Unless, of course, that someone is me… The main problem with making coffee with Excel is that the…

Maybe it’s the 11-year-old who’s taking his time to finish that spreadsheet. If it’s someone else, I hope the boss doesn’t read Twitter! taking my time doing this Excel spreadsheet for my boss. i coulda finished it in 5mins, but ill give it to her in 30 *shrugs* Showed 11yr old step-son how to use…

MacGyver it into Excel. I like that, and we’ve probably all done it, without knowing what to call it! Fixed the first Excel problem of the day – a nested IF that the user claimed was misbehaving. No matter how hard I look at this spreadsheet, the numbers aren’t going to change. **sighs** How could…

Have you ever been distracted from Excel by your fried bee hoon? No, it’s not caused by sitting on a deck chair that’s been baking in the sun, when you take your laptop outside to work. I click on an internal webpage link on who to contact in another department… and it DOWNLOADS AN EXCEL…

A pie chart wrapped in a donut chart? Is that the Excel version of a KFC Double Down? Person says: "reformat" I think: "computers. reinstall OS." Coworker thinks: "Excel spreadsheet. Move data round." #perspective Everyone at my workplace is crazy for Excel & spreadsheets. Everyone. today I learnt how to do pivot tables in Excel….

Yelling, cursing, and True Blood. That’s how we work with Excel — sorry Mom. La Boss: Here is disc with 10,000 records of data. Give it to me in a spreadsheet. Me: Wuuuuuuuuhhhh. Be still my beating chart. It seems that since my PhD I have *entirely* forgotten how to draw a graph in Excel….

Spreadsheet coma? I’ve had that. Usually caused by ingesting large quantities of Excel. My mouse wheel doesn’t work in Excel. My job duties are primarily concerned w/ data analysis. No witty hashtag; it’d simply be expletives. Excel VBA is my paintbrush, these General Ledger spreadsheets are my canvas, and Kaskade is my muse. Time for…

Organization or procrastination? Who hasn’t asked that question? Boo, lost my stolen wifi at work. Looks like its excel spreadsheet time for me. #needinternetnow Hubby brought home fazolis. To bribe me to double check an accounting spreadsheet for him. Still way easier than cooking. I either need someone to come over and decode this spreadsheet…

Dr. Who villains and boozy Excel work — it must be the weekend! 14 years of programming experience and I’m tasked with building an excel spreadsheet …sheesh. #mindnumbing Excellent graph! -> Every Doctor Who villain since 1963 – as a spreadsheet and visualized guardian.co.uk http://bit.ly/doL5qn #doctorwho Just an FYI. Excel files > 100 MB generally…

Stupidification? Do you really need Excel to help with that? I’m not surprised by that "Booze" category though. Killer feature in #Office2010 ? Excel Slicers! Not for everyone but brilliant for ppl that use pivot tables. Forms should not be created in Excel. Trying to enter this data is one of the more annoying things…

You must have to be young, to be "gangster". I can barely see the Excel sheet when it’s zoomed to 80%. OH: we have a google spreadsheet to keep track of who is the biggest jerk in the office. 1 point for a jerk out burst. So, Microsoft, my hard-won pivot table in Excel 2007…

A better solution for preventing sharing nightmares? Don’t create shared workbooks. The end. Spreadsheet modeling has evolved into a medium for managerial Machiavellis – Michael Schrage haha… Next time don’t write that you have advanced excel skills in your resume… Dear Microsoft, your chart feature of Excel o’s awful. Please hire some Apple designers to…

If a master chef doesn’t like pivot tables, maybe he should just stick to pie charts. And remember, even though the football is over, football will be starting soon. trying to modify an existing Excel pivot table is making me stabby This morning I need cheerleading… and very strong coffee!! Transferring a year’s worth of…

It’s fine to have VLOOKUP and INDIRECT in the same Excel workbook. Not so sure about Metallica. Friends are mocking me for my color-coding, spreadsheet obsession. Is it wrong to be organized? :p My table-/chart-making utility for Excel gets a link on the Aific website: http://ow.ly/29yh8 Lots of other interesting software there. Had a scare…

Have you run into that Firefox problem, when trying to download from the Microsoft site? I can’t count the times it’s happened to me! What a day! 9am to 5pm in one place….all I saw were slides and excel sheets! It’s the one skill I kept from those days. Did you know you can add…

It must be the heat — Excel is making people cry, laugh, eat, pull teeth, and even talk to their parents. Now that’s a powerful program! Sometimes I believe most that "I’m a poet" when I am working on a spreadsheet. I’m having a high noon style standoff with an Excel spreadsheet full of numbers…

Do Mac users do any work? Are Google charts better than Excel charts? Is Excel really old-school? So many questions, and it’s too hot to think! Everyday without fail Excel crashes everything MS Office related on my work computer. Awesome. US Postal Service proposing new rates. Click the "stamp" to download an Excel spreadsheet (21…

Yesterday, it was back to work after the holiday weekend, and there was a bit of whining and moaning in the Excel tweets. And I was on mega-fire too, but it was due to the soaring temperatures, not my Excel report-making skills. Today I learnt how to combine 2 charts together in excel http://bit.ly/cpigbm sigh….

"There’s no crying in spreadsheets!" Well, I think that’s what Tom Hanks said in "A League of Their Own." Anyway, a frozen computer would be very refreshing on a hot day like this. Microsoft XL: "I’ve assumed you’d like to print your simple 2 column spreadsheet sprayed randomly over 8 empty pages of A4. Is…

Not too many Excel tweets on the weekend, probably because of the July 4th holiday. A few people were stuck behind a spreadsheet though, and I hope they got outside eventually. YES, I’M AT HOME ON A SATURDAY NIGHT MAKING A SPREADSHEET. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT. You have work in the…

Hope you’re enjoying the holiday weekend — the perfect time to play Excel Battleship or Spreadsheet Monopoly!

If you use Excel to create your knitting patterns, you might wish that Excel used Perl instead of VBA. And I don’t know about you, but I figure that kid is up to no good! Who voluntarily extends their school day? The Excel spreadsheet I need to print for a meeting in 10 minutes time…

Happy Canada Day! Not too many Excel related tweets yesterday, so I guess everyone is out celebrating. more work in excel 2010. ribbon is starting to grow on me. downgraded from eye cancel to conjunctivitis. the rest of program is very spiffy Really great way to add a quick comparison chart to a worksheet seen…

Yikes! Where did June go? It must have disappeared while I was working on my spreadsheet face and box plots. Can’t sleep; working on a spreadsheet. Not to be lame, but it’s kind of a work of art.. Yeah, that was lame. Anyone know of a better method for adding a benchmark line in Excel,…

I’ve felt those white walls caving in some days too. man this excel sheet is cramping my slacker style. how does this thing even work? turning out worse than my paperclip vending machine hook. ohh big boss is making a scene here. poor colleagues….guess i better switch to my "screensaver" aka the excel sheet. naooooo!…

Sure, your brain knows that a spreadsheet can’t solve everything, but sometimes you try anyway — especially if it’s cold, or your feet hurt. Working on my film gear budget. Have decided that I’m in love with the Excel "sumif" function: "NO" "MUST" "MAYBE" "NEXTLIFE" I halped daughter with her IT homework in Excel by…

Nerds, bosses, engineers and gangstas — is there anyone who doesn’t use Excel? Microsoft Excel just quit and deleted 6 spreadsheets and two days of work. I should really know better by now. I find it interesting that 95% of my work is done in MS Excel even though I’m an "Application Developer". Oh young…

Do not fall for the old "helpful stripper" joke in Excel. Besides, who could be hotter than our faithful old friend, Clippy? Going on vacation without an Excel spreadsheet schedule. How long before I lose my mind? Why can’t excel just be as easy as publisher? Give me media projects all day &  I’m golden….

I hope the guy who left his Excel password list open, isn’t the same guy who’s responsible for the emergency budget spreadsheet. Things are bad enough already! I’m having fun imagining senarios where a Jedi would use Excel. Midi-Chlorian pivot charts probably. Quote of the day: "You need to pivot table your life" Was given…

Looks like some people are being paid by the hour, instead of getting project-based pay. Giant Excel models are like well-made hand-knotted rugs: there is always an imperfection hidden in there somewhere. I know where I get it from. I just saw a 75row x 15 column Excel spreadsheet my dad made for fun. How…

Paycheck mistakes and accidental formatting — the week in Excel is off to a good start! Balancing checkbook (via spreadsheet), big discrepancy, heart attack time! Found mistake: put paycheck in as minus instead of plus. #derp If u think protectin an excel file wl save ur formulas/logic/workbook etc. then think again. Open with Google docs…

Homeless shelters, dangerous VPs and laptop cravings. Just another #REF! day in Excel. My desktop is turning into a spreadsheet homeless shelter. #excel #8versionsofthesameshit #msoffice #work:( I love Excel, I do. Until I can’t reconcile the $926 cash sitting in front of me with the pretty colored boxes which tell me I’m short $213. Interns!…

Losing 3D pivot charts? That sounds like a benefit! Sometimes Excel could use a little LESS pizzaz. @Microsoft ! Since when is LESS control of chart wizard in excel more helpful? If it isn’t broken DON’T FIX IT! Common sense… get some Today I think I have finally understood how array formulas work in Excel….

Mmmm…cupcakes. I didn’t know they came with an Excel topping. Maybe they’re just in Australia though. My new spreadsheet is a work of art. Pivot Tables and everything. With great excel power comes great excel responsibility. OK. That’s it. I’ve been fighting with Excel all effing day and I’ve had it. Just gonna go sit…

The World Cup has barely started, and already people are setting up snooker files in Excel. There’s just no end to the excitement! Excel is fine for adding numbers together and creating charts, but most people really need a database… I vowed to never set foot upon Excel and spreadsheets ever again but hark I…