Microsoft Office may not be the superior ruler of workplaces around the world like it was before the rise of competitors like Google Drive. However, to many, it's still an essential part of operating a business, and a huge reason for that is its flagship program, Excel.
In simple terms, it uses spreadsheets to organize numbers and data with formulas and functions. From financial analysis to time management, Excel can help with almost anything. It can be a challenging tool to master if you're a beginner and have no experience in these sorts of things, but learning the basics is a pretty straightforward process and doesn't require much time.
But once you add clients, bosses, and deadlines into the mix, it can get pretty wild. And probably nothing captures the joys and sorrows of working with this program as 'Excel Humor.' Spanning across various social media platforms, this meme page perfectly shows how hectic your day can be when you depend on it.
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I used to work somewhere with a very unreliable network connection and Ctrl + S has been a nervous twitch for me ever since.
I lost a paper in college once about 15 years ago. I save everything every 5 minutes or so now.
Save to My Documents, to desktop, to online cloud, and print 200 copies.
Ctrl-S every time I change a cell. It's one of the reasons I like Google sheets so much, it does this for me since it's all online.
And the very day you decide not to save, your 6-hour work gets corrupted...
I HATE this! It's the worst when you have to switch between landscape and portrait of views to fit a table in for a several hundred page technical report, and then your boss wants you to edit text on the first page...
I remember going from WordPerfect to Word & I just wanted to cry. I've been using it for about 30 years & I still haven't gotten it to start numbering on the second page yet. Our whole department just started making the first page it's own document. And my pet peeve is software, and now hardware like our copier, try to figure out what I want instead of just doing it what I tell it to.
I hear ya, Sue! I hated it too, when I first transitioned. And it's not as though we all had a choice. It was, "no, this is the way it is, from now on". Do you mean start the numbering from the second page? If so, a Section Break will help. Go to the 'Insert' tab at the top of the page, then click 'Break' then click 'Section Break'. This will allow you to have different-styled page numbering. ie. first (or cover) page blank, subsequent pages (if it's a Contents page, or Foreword, etc) can be numbered in i, ii, iii, format, then the actual document (ie chapters, etc) can start with page 1. Of course, for this to work, you'll need to create section breaks, between each section where you want different-styled numbering. Hope this helps!
Load More Replies...Shouldn't move a picture unless it's floating above or below text with the wrap text options.
A life without software, instant communication, and analytics is hard to imagine. Just think about it, what would your work day look like if there was no email and direct messaging, just regular mail, fax, or courier?
Imagine getting your news from a newspaper. Go back to processing your printed receipts with your desk calculator and ledger. Try thinking about how you'd manage all your data without spreadsheets and pivot tables, or collaborating on a presentation without the cloud.
These days are long gone.
It also looks like the taste tester guy from Ratatouille
Load More Replies...Whenever I see that screen, it reminds me of a side profile of the original Spitting Images version of Margaret Thatcher
Apocryphal story about a woman with first initial-last name generated email address. Her name was Susan Lutz.
We had 4-char login names: first initial, next three from last. I was ACHE, but we had SCar, AFag, DEad, SEar, SLed, ...
My last company assigned usernames as first letter of first name followed by as many letters of your last name that character space allowed. Nine character max. One of my coworkers had the last name Denis and a first name beginning with P. PDENIS, which at a real quick glance ALWAYS looked like....something else.
Load More Replies...Notice the responding party's email spells "B***h?" Honestly, still rather have that, than "Loser."
=left(C3, 1)&"orth Carolina" will do it. C3 needs to adjusted to the correct cell.
Load More Replies...Software touches everything we do, particularly at work. But just because it is more integrated into our lives than ever, it is also taking a larger role in our happiness as employees and humans.
The right software can help us create and scale businesses, or earn a promotion but the wrong one can lead to wasting time and growing frustrated – even to the point of leaving a company.
Not me, but I did read Joey's "Bleu de la bleu, de la blu bla bleu"
Load More Replies...I'm doing French notes and whenever I put (E) to note the feminine version, it gets changed to the Euro symbol. Like no stop.
The funny thing is the real version of this meme is her teaching him French 😂
Load More Replies...To avoid situations like this, any literal that can be potentially misplaced with formulas, dates alpha-lists, etc must be prefixed by apostrophes
True, but at least this level of IT wizardry will help secure your position.
This literally sums up my 10+ years working in admin. When I showed one manager how to use snipping tool she thought it was witchcraft!
One time the admin assistant where I used to work asked me how to print an email in outlook, she had worked there for more than 5 years
My life as the IT director ... everyone makes more the me and I am doing half their work... because " well you can do this faster then me ! "
I am in the same situation. I so want to sabotage a report but I know it would just come back to me to be fixed. He actually calls me 'the fixer'!
S**t. .I just did this. I had no idea I wasn't fun anymore. My knees remind me every day that I'm not young!!!
OMG! This! My developer and I get excited when we learn new shortcuts, formulas anything and share with each other. I'm not an IT person it just makes my life easier and I get excited! I just moved to another company and we still share them ☺️
True, excel is the glue that holds everything toghether. And coffee. Excel and coffee.
How you conduct inventory without enough grant funds 🙄🤣
God I hate the amount of '97 word/excel/access systems are still in place.
A 2019 survey of 1,600 workers found that more than half (52%) of them have become unhappy at work at some point due to the software tools they're using.
Even more worrisome for bosses is that roughly one-quarter (24%) of respondents said the software at work has made them consider looking for a new job.
And more than one-in-eight employees (13%) have left a previous job over mismatched software.
Remember the before times: 'And here is the same e-mail from 30 seconds ago, this time with the attachement. Now excuse me while I go die in a hole somewhere.'
I still get these. You need to actually say "attachment" or "file" somewhere in the mail for the reminder to work. If you don#t use it, well...
Load More Replies...I once read the tip to fill out the recipient line last. Since then I never forgot an attachment.
I do this now adays. Too many "and here is the attachement I forgot" emails
Load More Replies...My second most-sent email before this feature: "Oops sorry! Would help if I included the attachment."
I used to invest the hour or so to create spreadsheets that saved me half an hour every month/week after that my forty-hour job took only ten hours to do each week
First thing I do is think, "Am I going to have to do this again later?" If yes or maybe, I'm building a template or macro. Definitely saves time long term
Load More Replies...How true! My boss can craft detailed financial accounting spreadsheets for the entire office, yet cannot perform basic mental addition.
Some time savers for the boss are time suckers for the rank and file.
I once had to troubleshoot an Excel workbook named 894. It got that name due to how many additional formulas were added over time. It was a masterpiece... So I stole it!
I built a whole BI system once to circumvent my boss restricting my access to the data reporting section of our software. I was the only one who cared.
My current employee brought spreadsheets to her interview (for a medical records position). No one understands why I thought that was so amazingly wonderful. They just look at me in astonishment and ask, "But, why?!"
I managed a store and created my own spreadsheets to calculate my sales and expenses..... my regional boss didn't even care even though I spent less time in office and more time on the floor. When I left I took the templates with me
Load More Replies...Overall, the majority of employees surveyed reported that their happiness at work could be improved by having both the correct software for their role and, to a lesser extent, more software to do their job effectively.
95% of respondents said they would be “very satisfied” or “satisfied” if they had better software tools at work.
86% of respondents said they would be “very satisfied” or “satisfied” if they had more software tools at work.
If y'all can't behave I'm Cc'ing everyone's managers. My most glorious moment was when I was cyber-bullied. The boy was dumb enough to send threats to my email. It was a small enough school, so I found his parents in the directory and BCC'ed both of them, my parents, the assistant principal, and the counselor on my reply, where I attached a screenshot of his email, but with all the grammatical errors corrected, along with a request to please not contact me anymore.
Load More Replies...I sent this to my coworkers and told them to replace corporate with classroom and Luke with students. Works perfect
This is pretty much my actual job. Coworkers send me their files to debug. And it's usually because they're atrocious at spelling (seriously - lookup (of any description) has two Os) or they've included a rogue space. Or, most commonly, they've tried to calculate text. Sometimes they've used entirely the wrong formula structure. Very rarely they've done everything right but their source has omissions. This guy still isn't crazy-eyed enough to be me by Friday.
I have to fix my team's broken lookups all the time. Numbers formatted as text on one sheet but not the other is a common issue for me.
Load More Replies...I had set up an infectious disease event tracker with formulas. Some other users jacked up my formulas, creating circular references. Cleaning that up sucked.
Should you need any further information, do not. Hesitate to contact me.
With the widespread adoption of the cloud and the explosion of software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies, there is no question that these numbers are something businesses have to keep in mind when trying to attract and retain employees.
Also, software isn't just found on the work desktop – it should be available anywhere an employee can access the internet.
Of those surveyed, nearly half said that they use software for work more than six hours per day. Those same people believe in the power of those programs: nearly 95% agreed or strongly agreed that software can make them more productive.
I self taught myself with Excel for Dummies. Everyone in the office came to me for help to do spreadsheets. In fact, I've been retired for 10 months now, got a call just yesterday about helping with a spreadsheet. Lol
My best friend prefers google sheets. It's put a real strain on our relationship.
Have you calculated the persentage of that strain? I reccomeded using the IMDED function .
Load More Replies...I choose whichever is more suited to the purpose at hand. Google sheets are available from any computer, at any time, without needing to prepare in advance - so I use them often for simple personal projects which I might work on for a few minutes on my laptop, or at work on my lunch break, or whatever. Excel is best for professional projects that need to be shared with co-workers. Everything else, Open/Libre Office.
One of my coworkers will email me a numbers file and tell me to "just copy and paste it into what you use". I hate him more every time he sends me schedules this way.
My place of employment uses Google Sheets and I'm down to literally the last hair on my head. Help me
Why, though? So far as I can tell it's pretty much the same, just available on cloud instead of only one device
Ah yes, the good old "You want me to come into work? Can't, I've got Covid for the 12th time this month. EDIT: Okay, I fixed it. Sorry, I misread it and didn't realize it said Covid.
Had a boss who wanted me to come in during one of the worst ice/snow storms in Texas. I said no. I was not paid enough for deductible if my car was damaged, much less a new car. He said he could fire me. Yes, I said, but I will have a car in good condition to go find another job. He ended with "come in when you can."
I made an Access database at work years ago. it was a new program and I was learning as I went. The Database was like a duck - nice and calm on top but paddling like hell underneath. They used it for years until a new dedicated software was developed. I also put quite a few easter eggs in it.
Heh. My mom made a program, on punch cards mind you, to transfer a university card catalog from an older computer to a newer one. They used the search and sort functions from it for years. This came up every time someone asked "how could the y2k bug be a problem?"
Load More Replies...I have to look up complicated formulas all of the time. I never remember them.
According to Microsoft, there are 1.2 billion users worldwide that use some kind of Office product or service and the company's CEO Satya Nadell remains optimistic about the future.
"The growth opportunity for what is Office 365 is a lot bigger than anything we’ve achieved, even with our high penetration in the client-server world,” Nadella said.
In my recent interview for an insurance job, the interviewer said, "I see you have a degree in Graphic Design." He laughed and continued, "What happened?"
I have two college degrees and I am still a waitress, becauseImake better money...a well-educated waitress, who can put together a bang-up presentation 😂😂
This is the only actually defensible format. You don't tell someone directions starting with. "Okay, when you get to my house, it will be a left turn..." and you should not tell someone where to find something by saying "it's in the left corner of the back of the drawer in the red tool box on the right side of the garage at my parents house". Actually there is one other defensible format and that is "seconds after t⁰"
Load More Replies...YYYY/MM/DD makes even better sense and easier to sort. Especially file or tab names. Usually without the slashes.
In Mexico, we address dates as day, month and year. When I moved to the US I had such a hard time getting used to month, day, year... It just wouldn't make sense to me lol.
Load More Replies...No, the perfect date is YY-MMDD for saving files chronologically. And honestly the first two digits of the year won't be important for a long time.
Apostrophe after the s because one must include *all* the f***s.
Load More Replies...So many middle management types are lousy in spelling and grammar. They are promoted due to their ability to suck up.
Those at the top are good at sucking up but have poor spelling and grammar skills. Use whatever.
In all my years, Windows has never found the solution to the problem.
Just make a table with data about horses and it will be, technically, a stable.
Load More Replies...But Nadella also talked up the company’s potential in the Azure public cloud infrastructure business, where it competes with Google as well as Amazon Web Services.
“We had a good business in our server business, but this business is orders of magnitude bigger than what used to be a successful server business,” he said.
Until I got my RAM upgraded at my last job, I spent nearly 10 hours per week rebooting because my big spreadsheet would lock up my whole system.
I recently got a new laptop from work and honestly kinda miss the "helicopter taking off" sound effects every time I open Excel.
The fan and you wait 10 minutes and the worksheet still is not opened. Should have been a Database instead of a flat file. LOL
“Fear will keep them in line” is the quote I believe you are looking for
Load More Replies...Make a copy. Work on it overnight or weekend. Probably can be simplified. Come back Monday all brand new you & whimsy . !
... Work on it over the weekend? So you would actually ruin your weekend to create a new excel-sheet??? I like Excel, but I don't like it THAT much.
Load More Replies...At the same time, Microsoft has also found rising revenue in the sale of cloud-based business intelligence software for charting and analyzing corporate data, with the Power BI product, which competes with Salesforce’s Analytics Cloud and Tableau.
But as we can see from these memes, Excel is still going strong.
When I was training, this was my #1 must! Every time I had someone tell me they were faster with their mouse, I’d make them this deal: use the shortcut’s religiously for 2 weeks and if by then u r still faster with the mouse, I’ll let u use the mouse instead. There was never a single person that was able to b faster with the mouse and I ran into someone I trained years later that thanked me for that. Said it was the single best thing they ever learned
I used shortcut keys when we started using computers at work, and the people from the computer department would stand around looking. They saw it worked and worked fast, yet severel of them got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome from using the mouse instead .
Load More Replies...That is funny. I never managed to become anywhere proficient in Excel but I do appreciate this meme..
I think You should take a look at Excel for Dummies. It is very easy to learn from
Load More Replies...Ok, but I'm pretty sure this screenshot is where he inexplicably loses his power
This button was invented by the same group as the ones who invented the usb stick insertion problem
Move the decimal point to the left or right, respectively.
Load More Replies...its one of the dumbest symbols and yet it makes perfect sense when you actually look at it
You can delete your comment in Teams.
Load More Replies...This is me for any scheduled thing. Going to the movies? Better prepare for an hour. Exam in class next week? Better study 4 weeks before! Going on a trip tomorrow night? Panic!
I Excel recreationally. (that was a missed opportunity)
Load More Replies...We had a spreadsheet for a wedding. For every vacation, now for our baby (special sheet for names, things to buy - the price of expensive items is updated automaticaly, things we had received from relatives, how many things you need, atc.). Yeah, we are crazy couple...
This would go perfectly inside that song that goes "I can ride a bike with no handlebars."
Load More Replies...Try having to re-sort a many page PDF file into the opposite order (it was sent to you with the last page first)
OK, but of it's such an important skill why can't a manager do it? Exactly, now give me a bonus.
An office worker and their second monitor: the only socially-acceptable mistress.
I kinda do have it - just ordered 34" like this to finally fit my product spreadsheets
Sometimes I do when I have no idea how the end product is going to turn out. Gotta start somewhere lol.
I don't get this one. Are they talking about wanting to put a title row in excel? THOSE peoples are psychopaths. You don't need a title row in excel. Thats what the doc title and print title is for.
Its like formulas are tree rings . . . over the years they just continue to add more and more layers till you look at the cell again and it looks like a formula for time travel lol.
Give Xlookup a try. It's new and improves on vlookup in a big way.
Load More Replies...That was my argument against memorizing things in school from day 1 lol.
Me with a forklift. Was doing well untill my collegue came to look. Drove straight to a wall.
Shortcuts will change your life! Once you go mouse-less you never go back!
A friend of mine just talked to her crush and they figured out they were both to shy to talk to each other for weeks. (she's 36). So go ahead, try your luck.
Load More Replies...But you know that ”Final-Final-REAL_Final” is only around the corner....
What even is it? I’m a sweet summer child who’s never had to use excel for jobs…
Load More Replies...Hell, yeah. Once at 8 pm. This pure evil crap was supposed to automatically save every 5 minutes. I had worked 3 hours straight on a sheet and Excel had crashed at the beginning, not letting me know until I had almost finished. It was late and the work was due for the day after (last minute task thank you boss). Afterwards IT service reinstalled all the Office suite and it became much more stable. From that day I have a finger on CTRL, another on S, and I press them compulsively every few minutes.
It only takes one major project to crash and that becomes a tic you can't help - Ctrl S every 3 breaths or every time you blink.
Load More Replies...Turning down the car radio when parallel parking because you can' t see properly otherwise...
I feel like I need my boss to see how much time I spend on little quick interruptions.
Go soul searching: what did you (or your boss, for that matter) do, to deserve that 🤔
I once worked with a senior financial analyst who used colours. And not just the primary ones. There were shades of brown and beige as well as pastel pinks and teal. Basically, if it was displayable on an RGB monitor, he incorporated it into his spreadsheet. I got a migraine after ten minutes, and my laptop made this funny high-pitched whistle everytinr I scrolled down....
That is from XKCD. The text is different, but its still not referenced properly...
I just created a macro to adjust everything to the format I like. Press the shortcut, and voilà, ready to go!
The one of the left moves it left and the one on the right moves it right
I hope this is early days yet because someone needs to remove the postings not related to Excel. Several of the Excel-related ones are quite funny (and true!) though.
I'm still amazed how many people working on computers did NOT take a typing class in High School. I can type 120 WPM and finish fast . . . but I did learn in the corporate world NOT to submit my work until the deadline. So I had time for other things. Anything that was submitted early was subject to editing and changes. So I had time . . .
why do so many Bored Panda posts have nothing to do with the headline attached to them? I think only five or six of these had anything to do with spreadsheets or Excel
More of the ones that had to do with Excel were in the 100 not shown. You're right, a lot of the top posts had nothing to do with Excel
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If you really want wow an intimidate, "I know Excel, but am familiar with Access."
I hope this is early days yet because someone needs to remove the postings not related to Excel. Several of the Excel-related ones are quite funny (and true!) though.
I'm still amazed how many people working on computers did NOT take a typing class in High School. I can type 120 WPM and finish fast . . . but I did learn in the corporate world NOT to submit my work until the deadline. So I had time for other things. Anything that was submitted early was subject to editing and changes. So I had time . . .
why do so many Bored Panda posts have nothing to do with the headline attached to them? I think only five or six of these had anything to do with spreadsheets or Excel
More of the ones that had to do with Excel were in the 100 not shown. You're right, a lot of the top posts had nothing to do with Excel
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If you really want wow an intimidate, "I know Excel, but am familiar with Access."
