30 Hilarious Bits Of Excel Humor For Those Who’ve Been Scarred By The Program (New Pics)
Before Google Workspace, Microsoft Excel was the king of spreadsheets. It was the go-to software for bookkeeping, data organization, and tracking company payroll, among other essential office tasks.
Excel has also been the subject of memes and jokes from users. This is where online pages like the ExcelHumor Facebook page thrive, where people poke fun at its features and relate them to their daily lives.
Here, all 313,000 members share wisecracks about their trust level in CTRL+V, their challenges with the drag-and-drop feature, and Excel’s relevance on a person’s résumé.
If you’ve ever used Excel for any purpose, these images may bring a laugh or two. Enjoy scrolling through this list, which may remind you of an interesting time in the digital age.
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The company I work for has subscribed to this... now everything is on the one drive. Guess what happens when there is an issue with microsoft.... none of us can work or acess anything. It's soooooooooo much fun (eyes rolling)
There is a setting to ensure that all files are also stored locally.
Load More Replies...That's very much easier said than done. OneDrive is extremely invasive and also arrogant about it.
Load More Replies...Which they are now sneaking into OneDrive anyway. I want Excel. On Linux.
Finally, something as bad as Google Docs! Because we obviously need a second application like this! /s
Oh you don't like saving to the onedrive? How about we change up the Save As dialog so you have to fight your way out of it...
I absolutely hate this. The company I work for uses OneDrive, and we have to use all of the web-based Office apps, which totally suck (Yes. Let me type a word document, then try to print it, converting it to PDF, and buggering up half of my formatting.) I keep a backup folder of my OneDrive on my desktop. At home, I still use OpenOffice.
I'm confused. I've used Excel for a couple decades and always save them to my Document Folder on my computer. MS might be saving them to Onedrive, but this has no effect on readily opening a saved spreadsheet from Documents.
It really depends on what you have set for the folder/file. If you right click on the folder/file you can select "Always Keep on device" to ensure that the files will also be stored on your computer. If you don't select that then it can basically be either way. For instance, there is also the option of "Free up space". What that will do is remove them locally if you haven't set them to "Always Keep on device". Basically, though say you create a file, locally and have done neither have above, it will be local and stored on the OneDrive server.
Load More Replies...it's even better when it's a three part Venn diagram with the third one being "seeing a fig"
Load More Replies...Every entry is a date. Accept this early on using Excel and keep your blood pressure under control. No program is worth having a stroke.
There is a setting to change the format from date to percentage or measurement units
Microsoft Excel is still well-used in the era of Google Sheets. Learning platform Coursera compared the two spreadsheet systems side-by-side, noting some of the advantages of the former.
For one, Excel has a faster processing speed as a desktop application, unlike a web-based platform like Google Sheets. It is also better equipped to handle larger data sets and more complex calculations.
You can set the defaults but you get spoiled and then annoyed when working on someone else's system. Ctrl+Shift+V
File Explorer is the most often frozen process for me. It's a damn picture of folders, why?????
Many users also prefer Excel for data presentation because it allows better customization for PDF conversion. An analysis by Adobe noted that while sharing a PDF spreadsheet via Google Sheets is easier, Excel provides more control options for appearance and formatting.
Users can create an output that looks more professional and well-presented with the added versatility.
Second rule? When your boss is looking for someone to take over teaching Excel classes---DUCK!
"I heard Tim was good at it.." )Tim microwaved fish last Monday, stuck around several days)b
Load More Replies...I don't know, I love helping colleagues with excel - it makes me feel good about myself a) that I'm helping someone, and b) because it reminds me that I'm good at something that isn't actually as easy as it feels to me.
Same! And the questions I usually get aren't even hard to fix, how to put a boarder on, or why a simple formula isn't working and you immediately can see they just need a comma.
Load More Replies...Thank you now go find the rest of Hogan's Heroes
Load More Replies...I started using Excel in 1995. The improvements made since then make me feel like I'm making my data dance. But I'm not the best in my department, someone else is the known Excel Wiz.
I told my old job I was really good and actually enjoyed using it and they were like.. would you be willing to do a class for the other employees?...umm 😒 no thank you!!!!
I like my dates perfectly ripe for peak combination of sweetness and texture. ...What do you mean, wrong type of date?
Actually it's YYYYMMDD as this self sorts from large to small as a date or number
And the others don't get the irony of a statement like that.
Load More Replies...Preference - dd mmm yy - works across world time variances & easy to read in reports
Exactly. We all know what year it is. We don't all know the day it is. It helps to read that first.
Load More Replies...Nope day month year is easiest. I have to type birthdays all day long so don't you dare change it. If they change that in Epic I really will throw my work PC off my back deck out into the woods!
OneDrive is piece of cake. Tell me about Android file organization.
Always disabled as soon as I save. Stupid "auto save."
Load More Replies...It took me forever to find all my files just to move them where they should have been in the first place.
They're usually in the root folder, or 'documents' folder. What I hate is that they always get saved as "Document (x)". Word used to at least use the first few words of the document for its autosaves. Not to mention that nobody renames them, either. This results in having twenty "Document (5)"s in my attachments folder (we have to save to OneDrive before opening, can't directly open from the email, or from the hard drive)
Proficiency in using Excel also has its advantages. According to HR and Relationship Management leader Tania Marler, candidates applying for a job have a higher chance of getting hired if they have expertise using the platform since it is widely used in many companies.
“Possessing advanced Excel skills can significantly enhance your employability and open doors to career advancement,” Marler wrote in an article for LinkedIn.
This isn't Excel, it's Outlook. I had a colleague who automatically hit Reply All - even when the boss was asking for personal details, or someone had just told them they were popping out for a few minutes. Only tell people who need to know (or care)!
Remember that even when replying, only the Forward button retains any email attachments. So if you want to keep your attachment in the email, hit Forward and then do your reply that way. It's not intuitive, but it is effective.
I am surprised that there are actually still people out there who don't triple-check who they're sending to when replying to multi-recipient emails... because - well - who the hell hasn't seen someone else f**k it up and been like, "OH S**T! That's embarassing! Note to self: DO NOT EVER CLICK REPLY ALL!"... Or maybe it's just me?
We had an "incident" at work recently. I work at a company with something like 5000 people. I don't remember how it started, but someone did a Reply All that went to everyone in the company. The fun started when people kept replying All to say "Please unsubscribe me from this thread." And then someone would reply back to say, "There is no unsubscribe. Please everyone just stop doing Reply All." and it just went on and on. It went on for about 3 or 4 days, I think. 100s and 100s of emails. It was highly amusing.
Load More Replies...Reply all should be an actual physical button on the keyboard. And it should be covered in little shards of glass. Then maybe people would only use it when it's really necessary.
I got this scam email, and everyone else who got it too started replying by using the "reply all" button, and I wanted to choke each and everyone of them.
I love the people that 'reply all' to the recall alerts, which ALL management receives (I work in grocery retail) saying "I work in (such-and-such) department. Stop sending me these for (some other) department. Then there are the obligatory 30 or so emails saying that everyone gets them, or just delete them, or my favorite: don't hit 'reply all'.
I thought that was the standard for most of the non-English speaking world, no? We do that in Brazil too. 12.345,67 is twelve thousand three hundred forty and sixty seven hundredths. China and Mexico do it the English way too if I remember.
Load More Replies...Apart from enhanced employability, achieving a good level of mastery in Excel can also be profitable. According to June 2024 statistics by Glassdoor, the total annual pay range for an Excel data analyst in the United States is between $81,000 and $129,000. The median total pay is $102,000.
To break it down further, the calculated annual base pay is between $70,000 and $109,000. Then comes additional pay of up to $20,000 per year, which could include cash bonuses and tips.
I could use this as well. I love it when things are color coded. I draw maps by hand for my DND campaign and I color code everything it makes me so happy.
Load More Replies...I just read this again AND is COLOR CODED!!! Please make this available tote public.
OMG, my husband and I could clearly communicate emotions without eye contact or voices breaking AND we might make a bingo!
My Excel spreadsheets always look like a kindergarten Disney Princess colour book
I refuse to lie on anything that doesn't have "Developer" tab in the menu bar
Excel users, we’d like to hear from you. Which of these photos do you relate to the most? And what about the platform do you like or dislike? Let’s begin a nerdy discussion in the comments below!
Provided it didn't take anything else with it (doubtful), I might actually be able to get some work done!!!
I didn't mind Teams as a messaging program, but then it crept into the background and foreground of so many other programs like a contagion.
So much this! I hate that Outlook shows if I’m active in Teams. I always need to take a break after a Teams meeting and am trying to train to close the program immediately after the meeting ends.
Load More Replies...I hate teams. You can't block anyone. (Unless someone can tell me how to....🙏🏿 Pleeeeese?)
y'all.... this is so true! I started at the company I am currently with in 2018 and they ran almost everything off of excel spreadsheets!!!! Then the company got hacked in 2020 and we lost almost everything... they finally upgraded to programs that actually work. It was so frustrating!!!
Hence the expression, “If you could shave those numbers down, that would be great.”
That's more a Gillette Censor Excel. I'll be here all night, be sure to tip your waitress!
The worst part is now the cell refuses to format any other way than a date. CTRL + Z is your only way out, and if you're 16 steps into the future, good luck to you.
When MS gets around to really integrating its AI Copilot into Office we're actually going to be having conversations like that.
I work for a large and well known retail pharmacy. We have none of this...just Microsoft Wordpad (Yes, you read that right), and the pharmacy program looks like 90's Internet (Grey boxes) and has a 1999 copyright. To be fair, that is slightly better than some of the other systems, which operate on a UNIX/LINUX/MSDOS type platform. So, next time you wonder why it takes so long to get your meds, now you know.
We use Macs and all of our servers are Linux, so we didn't get impacted either :(
I work in healthcare so our electronic patient record system was down. Literally had to go into the waiting room at appointment times and shout, “Anyone here to see XX?” I don’t know what was worse, trying to see new patients ‘blind’ or see follow up patients where I couldn’t remember their names and what we’d been doing last time.. such fun!
I was off and watching specified pod casts, so I didn't even know about it until that night. 😕
I write a lot of manuals for work. If you have to insert photos use tables. You can split the tables and have the photo on the side you want and even add arrows and they won't move. Also use page break so what you do on the next page is independent. When you finish go to table properties and make the boarders lines invisible. Save and then save as PDF, send to client. PS. Use a simple paint program like paint net to reduce the resolution of the photos so you save Mb..you don't need 2000x 2000. 400x400 is more then enough for a word doc
Word is a word processor. It's not for desktop publishing. If you want complete control over layout use LaTeX.
All I need to do is take photos of the machine I suport and add a few arrows and text. But I'll check it out
Load More Replies...When I first saw that Turkish guy, my immediate reaction was.. well, we'll gonna have a new meme coming soon. Didn't expect to be this fast though.
Funny how the two most memed people in the Olympics are a hitman and a horrible breakdancer
Load More Replies...It would be extra fun if the bad breakdancer was included as his goofy sidekick.
Load More Replies...A cap is designed to shield your eyes. If you wear it backwards at a pistol shoot, you’re a wanker.
Sometimes you need to shield your eyes, sometimes you don't. Wearing it backwards is a practical way to carry a hat so you have it when you need it.
Load More Replies...Aww, PB and J plus Excel. They should have included her smile as the last pic.
It kind of reminds me of winning solitaire on Windows while waiting for a program to finish running.
I'll just drag the window around the screen a bit... Dooo deee dooo....
This is the very reason why Excel is thriving. Many apps meant to supersede it are too specialised. They are very structured and methodical. They do not allow any flexibility and edge cases to exist. Real world data are messy and full of edge cases.
WHAT is that doing, please? (Yes, I realise the irony, but there's normally a reason in Excel, and I can't figure this one out)
It's holding the smartwatch up while it charges. I guess this person doesn't have a flat surface near the plug? Idk.
Load More Replies...And then someone asks you how you got it to work. Don't question miracles.
When did it suddenly become necessary to press CTrL + C multiple times to actually copy, and even then sometimes it don't????
Geez, I thought it was just me. Been having that happening for months now and only recently realized it only happened when copying from Excel. Is this a known Excel bug?
Load More Replies...I just use CTRL+X now. Yes, I have to paste it back in, but at least I KNOW it has been copied.
What doI s this have to do with Excel? (Please tell me if I’m missing something)
I think it's a response to an article about needing to learn Excel to advance your career.
Load More Replies...I am a 40 year old guy.. also not hot.. is it too late for me?
Load More Replies...There is? Is it like how people write "bestfriend" online instead of "best friend" these days?
Load More Replies...In my first few years of university, the university released end semester examination results in bulk for all subjects (every student’s grade was visible to others). During my vacations at the end of those semesters I made spreadsheets of the marks of the top 20% of students. Columns for different subjects and then a total column AND then a ranking column. I just wanted to see where I stood and who my competitors were 🤣 As a medical student Excel wasn’t even something remotely related to my studies 😂
Dataset is not a Database. Who are you arguing with?
Load More Replies...Turn of automatic updates if you're making a lot of changes to a large sheet.
23 years in a couple of weeks, and my wife tracks everything on a spreadsheet. I love her so much
If I ever get married, I’ll be that “Finances in Excel” wife! It’s so organised!!
Load More Replies...Been with my husband 20 years and - as much as I may want to be the one who dies first (so I don't have to miss him) - there's another part that's terrified when wondering how he would manage on his own. I've managed / tracked all of our bills in excel for our entire relationship... and he's the kind of guy who has no idea that you can even have multiple sheet tabs on one file. He's also the kind of guy that saves every individual file to the f*****g desktop instead of making a damn folder. I suppose it's a good thing that my family tends to have a long life expectancy... as I fear he may very well be completely doomed if I die first...
For all the hell we give spreadsheets, it's hard to deny that they're stupidly good at helping arrange simple data. Wouldn't want to use it as a substitute for a proper database, but for stuff that's at the level of a list of "Item A is Value B" entries, it's the way to go.
Only when it works. I spent ten years with xlookup failing more often than not. Bad build. I still don't trust it.
Load More Replies...We gotta make sure its been perfectly copied and ready to be pasted here in the internet.
Okay, I'll tackle this. So Excel lets you work with data in a variety of quite powerful ways. So do databases. But databases provide a number of tools that Excel can't - and has never tried to - match, because Excel is intended to be easier to use, and the more powerful a program gets, the more complex it must generally also get. Things that come to mind as being magnitudes easier with a database: Data validation (e.g. "this must be a number", or "this must be unique"), sharing (changing the data set at the same time as somebody else without causing issues), backups & restores, and computationally heavy reporting (ie, complicated comparisons on very large data sets without halting your entire computer). In summary: there is nothing wrong with Excel, but that doesn't mean it's perfect for every use case, either. It's common to continue to use it beyond the point where a database would be better, because changing over to an entirely new way of doing things is also undesirable.
Load More Replies...So that's where you enter the Fraud amount. Now where are the cells for the Waste and Abuse that politicians are also always referring to?
You can use google sheets for free, you just have to give all of your data to google. If you want a desktop app that doesn't require you to give your data to a large corporation, OpenOffice's Calc is also really good, and totally free
Load More Replies...This doesn't make this any more of an Excel or even IT comment, but here's the rest: "If you’re great at your job and add value to the company, then you can do whatever you want so long as that value sustains. Employers will look away from your non-compliance unless/until your non-compliance causes envious low-value colleagues to complain and create disruption that more than offsets your high-value. So, don’t be obvious about your “rule” breaking. Follow me if you like raw and powerful career advice."
I took a new job which 'requires' high level Excel skills, and it turns out the only use they have for it is to make simple lists of data from the CRM, and think I'm a minor genius for running a report and saving it as a spreadsheet rather than retyping the data one entry at a time. One of many reasons I will be looking for another new job very soon.
Now is when you learn to automate that with a script and work remote
Load More Replies...BP, seriously: Ads on top of ads on top of ads, including a best buy ad that I had to minimize no less than 10 times, and when I stopped minimizing it and just let it take up half the screen, it eventually disappeared by itself just so it could reappear 10 seconds later. You really are making the experience of this website as annoying as humanly possible. Dear advertisers: I have literally never once bought anything because of an ad on a website, all ads are to me is a test of how fast I can find and press the little X to close the ad. I don't even see who the advetiser is most of the time. You are wasting your money.
I took a new job which 'requires' high level Excel skills, and it turns out the only use they have for it is to make simple lists of data from the CRM, and think I'm a minor genius for running a report and saving it as a spreadsheet rather than retyping the data one entry at a time. One of many reasons I will be looking for another new job very soon.
Now is when you learn to automate that with a script and work remote
Load More Replies...BP, seriously: Ads on top of ads on top of ads, including a best buy ad that I had to minimize no less than 10 times, and when I stopped minimizing it and just let it take up half the screen, it eventually disappeared by itself just so it could reappear 10 seconds later. You really are making the experience of this website as annoying as humanly possible. Dear advertisers: I have literally never once bought anything because of an ad on a website, all ads are to me is a test of how fast I can find and press the little X to close the ad. I don't even see who the advetiser is most of the time. You are wasting your money.
