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 never ignore valuable lessons learned. I lost a real estate document that contained a metes and bounds description (metes and bounds are the limits or boundaries of a piece of property as identified by its natural landmarks. Examples of metes and bounds landmarks include rivers, roads, stakes, or other such natural or manmade markers.) The description almost filled an 11x14" paper. I was using a memory card typewriter, back in the day. Saving was a new experience, so I simply forgot. We lost electricity in the building, and I lost everything that I typed. I had one hour to recreate the document that had taken me 2.5 hours to create. Since that day, saving has been one of my "best friends."
As an alternative to using Excel, one could use a free scratchpad and scripting language to replace some of workflows. This will keep your original file unchanged and produce new result that you can save. Online course like this shows how to do this. https://astrocoder.thinkific.com/courses/learnlinq
When I was a kid doing homework, the computer shut down on me. I told my dad I was almost done with this huge document and now it's ruined and I was working so hard. He says no problem, reboots the computer and says it auto saves every few minutes. He pulls up what I was working on, all five words of it. He asks if that's it, I hang my head in shame.
Thank god I save everything to OneDrive and it auto saves for me every few seconds \o/
My teacher used to walk up behind us and turn off our CPU at random. She'd then say, "Save often... you never know when something will happen!" The lesson has served me very well over the past 25 years
Your teacher is evil I would've been so stressed in that class all the time.
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And have multiple copies you save over . . . same with game save files.
About ten years ago, my sperm donor’s business had exploded, he was chairman of the National Speakers’ Association, and he took business trips all over the world. He had collected several boxes full of business cards from his networking contacts, but since it was just him and his secretary, they weren’t organized. He offered my siblings and I the job of cataloging them. My little brother wasn’t interested, and I knew better than to take any “job offers” from him, but my 10yo sister took on the challenge. He basically dropped the boxes in her lap, and told her to create an Excel spreadsheet and enter them into it. No training; no tips, tricks, or warnings; just “do it and I’ll pay you”. A couple of weeks go by, and sister has logged about 2,000 cards, another 1,000 to go, when it happened. Excel crashed, the computer crashed, and *all* of her work was permanently lost. He blamed her, and then he tried to refuse to pay her for the lost work! She never worked for him again.
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.
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.
True, excel is the glue that holds everything toghether. And coffee. Excel and coffee.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
My best friend prefers google sheets. It's put a real strain on our relationship.
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?"
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.
I recently got a new laptop from work and honestly kinda miss the "helicopter taking off" sound effects every time I open Excel.
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.
Note: this post originally had 130 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes.
In High School we were required to take an intro to computers class our junior year. The teacher told me if I could do something he had never seen anyone do before I'd get an automatic A. I made solitaire out of an excel spreadsheet because they had blocked all the games.
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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In High School we were required to take an intro to computers class our junior year. The teacher told me if I could do something he had never seen anyone do before I'd get an automatic A. I made solitaire out of an excel spreadsheet because they had blocked all the games.
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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