You knew it would happen – Excel 2007 has a million rows, and now people want 2 million. Meanwhile, the 6th graders are playing Excel battleship, and learning about those bad variable names. If you’d like to play too, my friend Andrew Engwirda has a free version of Excel Battleship that you can download. i…

Those computer games disguised as Excel sound fun, but it’s hard enough to get your work done, without those kinds of distraction. And now I have to go and find a jar that I can put on my desk, for people to drop in their tips. Things i dont enjoy- meetings, excel sheets and meetings…

Didn’t we all have youthful dreams of spending our days in Excel? Or maybe that’s a result of the Norwegian work ethic (which I’d never heard of before). But if you’re struggling to create a clustered stacked chart, like today’s tweeter, there’s a link at the end of this post, that should help you. Got…

These Excel tweets from the weekend show that even the hard working Excel users take a bit of time for fun and games occasionally. And I don’t know who the mystery man was, who suggested XY Chart Labeler, but it’s a free utility that every Excel user should download and install. Finally finished with the…

Apparently one tweeter didn’t like the pivot table presentation at Ignite Minneapolis. I’d never heard of that event before, but if they include pivot tables, it must be good! Now I have to go and try to straighten my fingers. I have all this fancy software, and I always end up using Excel for everything….

Yes, I’ve absent-mindedly tried to copy and paste from Excel to a piece and paper, just like today’s Excel tweeter. It didn’t work for me either. i’m going to pass out if i dont start some excel work… Excel is a curiously terrible program. Simple things like putting a title on a chart’s legend require…

Bad day in Excel twitters, with plenty of errors, swearing and drinking. Or maybe that’s just an average day. Anyway, how’s your day going? It’s worrying how satisfying I am finding getting a macro to work in excel :s. Click, flashy screen, success, woo! #geek #tragic Spent the last 20 minutes showing a guy I…

Are fancy-dancy charts better or worse than professional looking charts? You should know the answer to that if you’re going to attract the ladies with your incredible Excel skills. But maybe the fashion designer who uses Excel will be impressed. I’d like to conclude now that Excel is idiot proof. Unfortunately, most of the people…

Yes, Italian food can definitely ease the pain induced by Excel hell. Maybe it would help with that swampy wallowing homework feeling too! Looking at Excel toolbar, wondering how many years it will be until the Save icon is no longer a floppy disk. Haven’t use a floppy in years Fine. You win excel. I…

Hooray! It’s March, and that means we made it through another February. Over the weekend, Excel users were working in bed, watching F1 pre-season stuff, and complaining to Microsoft. Oh, and there might have been a bit of drinking, if you can count Peach Schnapps. And we did an Excel Word Search on the Contextures…

Pivot Tables Olympics? Yes, I’d be a fan of that. It might even be more exciting than Olympic hockey! And be careful out there – you wouldn’t want to accidentally delete two hours of work, or show your spreadsheet on a giant billboard. Anyone got a good app for organizing #ff messages? My attempt at…

Drawing in Excel was featured on Daily Dose of Excel yesterday. If you’re not artistic, you can use the ExcelArt program that was mentioned in these Excel tweets. I tried the free version, and it worked well in Excel 2007, but I can’t think of any practical applications for it. No matter what I do…

Have you ever been in an Excel training room that ran out of oxygen? Yeah, me too. But if you’re just there to learn how to limit the number of characters you can type in a cell, the answer is Data Validation. I hate how the ‘Insert Row/Col’ button in Excel 2007 isn’t on the…

Hungarians invented Excel? Spreadsheets need architecture? Beckett could have written “Waiting for Excel?” There’s always something new and interesting to learn in Twitter. r we going to drink tonite..is anybody good in excel I really need help wit tht. so instead of actually doing my lab report, im googling excel help. microsoft fail me. Going…

The lift, duck and click sounds like an Olympic event, but apparently it’s an office sport. With that kind of distraction, no wonder people forget to save their Excel files. ..still need help with Excel..anyone? I’m sick of feeling inferior to it. I just found Remove Duplicates on the Data tab in Excel. Well that…

Remember to save your in Excel every few minutes, and you might be able to stay home on Saturday to watch cartoons. But just staring at Excel won’t help, you have to touch the keyboard and mouse occasionally. I don’t have a fine arts degree, but they haven’t taken away my arts degree, even though…

Project tracking, rental fee analysis and zombie tracking…Excel was put to good use in Twitter yesterday. And remember, stay hydrated if you’re working in Excel all day, unless you have a drinking problem. Haven’t done any spreadsheets for 2 days now. Hoping Microsoft haven’t launched yet another version of excel in that time… just found…

Was your Excel day full of bathroom colours, drab charts, angry fruit salad and stapler fights, like these tweeters? Maybe your day was better, with fabulous pivot tables and formula problems solved. Undo can save the day too, if you remember to use it in time, and it would be nice to hear some cheering…

Mmmm…cheese, Nutella, pie charts. The Excel tweets were very tasty yesterday. And I wonder if the intern and the overworked tweeter are the same person. is the Excel QUEEN!!! (Ok, not really. But at least in my office I am!) bad news: my work computer is down and can’t send/receive e-mails or use Word or…

Excel support groups, extra magic hours and slave traders. Just another day of boring Excel related tweets. And you’re complaining that Excel blindly follows everything you type, is Excel really the problem? 😉 Begging the Financial Controller to pretty please write an Excel macro that will put an end to my cut-and-paste mundanity. All I…

Apparently, there are lots of cells on an Excel worksheet, and it’s tough to make them all the same size. I’ll bet the guy who created the Excel chess game has that little problem figured out! So I created an Excel worksheet last night for house building options that includes conditional formatting and list validation….

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, so I hope you spent some time with a loved one. For at least one of the weekend tweeters, that loved one was Excel, so I hope you did better than that! Or, if Excel was your date, I hope you had some wine and Bob Marley too. And the Olympic…

The 2010 Winter Olympics started here in Canada yesterday, and apparently the NBC Olympics website will help you cover up your sports watching with an Excel worksheet, if you click the Boss button. I can’t confirm that, because the videos are only available to viewers in the USA. And tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, so maybe…

Funny, Excel never reminded me of a galloping horse, but now that you mention it, it does sound a bit like those coconuts in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (I included an instructional video at the end of the tweets list.) It’s part awesome and part scary that I’m the excel guru at the…

Keeping track of Olympic hockey games in Excel sounds like a great idea. Maybe Excel could create some snow in Vancouver too, for those snowboarding events. Better hurry though, since the opening ceremony is tomorrow. /me picks up Excel. Ties it to a post. Sets Fire to the wood underneath, soaked in Petrol. Excel screams…

Should you hit Excel with a rolled up newspaper, or just sit there and stare at it? And I know that some people find it frustrating to make Excel charts, but one group of students thinks that Excel charts are for the birds. (Is that just a North American expression?) not using formulas in Excel…

Kryptonite and mortal enemies and genetic drift. No, it’s not a cyberpunk thriller, it’s just another day of Excel tweets. And it’s good to know that students can keep up with their Excel assignments, even if they’re snowed in. That’s exactly what I would have done, back in my university days. 😉 I suppose it…

The Super Bowl hadn’t started when I collected the Excel related tweets on Sunday, so maybe that’s why there wasn’t much talk about football. You’d think that Excel would be the perfect tool to compile all those game statistics.  My numbers for the Super Bowl Square Pool are "square root of X" & "=sum(b2:k2)". I…

Yesterday I had two votes for the uncategorized list of Excel related tweets, and zero votes against, so I’ll stick with this format. Thanks to Joe, for suggesting a bit of space between the list items. And I like Jon’s description of this format – stream of consciousness. There are a couple interesting links, including…

Here are some of my favourite Excel tweets from yesterday. Instead of breaking the tweets into categories, I’ll just post them in one long list. That should make it more serendipitous, and more “Twitter-like”. Anyway, I just hope that nuclear reactors have better security than Excel does! Story idea: Admin’s typo yields Excel formula proving…

It’s 2010, and we’re still struggling with Excel 2007. I hope the people at Microsoft are listening! And there’s some debate as to whether Excel charts are cool or old school. Part of the answer might be user dependent. 😉 And if you’re not Canadian, you might not be familiar with Excel gum. Even John…

Corruption, global warming, Smallpox – Excel related twitters cover all the hot topics! And if the Holy Bible in Excel doesn’t help with your corruption issues, check this article by Jan Karel Pieterse: Opening Corrupt Excel Files. Hardly Working Continuously reformatting a workflow excel file can be a credible substitute for actual work. Today’s office…

Do you agree that sweats, slippers and Excel make you irresistible? And that would make excellent attire for the big football game that’s coming up. And while I was getting this list of twitters ready, I accidentally discovered that you can’t spell ‘embarrassing’ without MBA. Well, that made me laugh, but maybe it’s because I…

It’s February now, and time to start planning your garden, or shopping for food – whichever you do better. And my hero is that guy who knew most of Excel already. That’s quite an accomplishment! I Forgot happy! i got my spreadsheet done. had to re-learn excel, but it looks very spiffy! no problem, I…

Apparently Bill Gates hasn’t solved the world’s problems yet, and his pie charts and memos aren’t helping. And while we’re dropping names, Tufte was mentioned in the Excel-related tweets too. And I don’t believe that you’ll fail to lose weight if you use Excel – that’s why I created the Excel Weight Loss Tracker !…

It’s Friday, so please remember to take a bit of time away from Excel over the weekend. You’ll feel better by Monday! Soothing Tunes making death metal covers of simon & garfunkel songs in my head… as i work away in excel (my favorite!) Beatles entering charts again. More Excel than iTunes… http://bit.ly/82FTpc Dudes plz,…