7 Most Annoying Things about Excel…

CANARY WHARF, U.K. - April 26, 2016 - PRLog -- UpSlide, the best and most complete and user friendly add in suite for Microsoft Excel, has found the most common situations we all face on Excel which annoy us far more than they should! Whether you're a student, an investment banker or a financial reporter, these are situations we've all been in on Excel. We have also compiled some of the most interesting statistics and uses of Excel for you.

7 Most Annoying Things about Excel…

1.      Pressing the F1 Key accidentally when you're editing a cell and seeing the 'Excel Help' box pop up

2.      Not being able to COPY PASTE into a Merged Cell without a million errors popping up

3.      Trying to copy paste between two files using shortcuts like ctrl +c, alt +tab, ctrl + v doesn't work!

4.      When you open any file containing external links you can never find or break them easily

5.      Never being able to find or create the chart you actually need

6.      When you change the row height or column width, images and charts get distorted

7.      When you've used your spreadsheet just to store data or text but haven't actually used any formulas

Incredible uses of Excel...

●       A 74 year old man, by the name of Tatsuo Horiuchi has discovered a new way of creating beautiful pieces of art in Excel. Horiuchi said he has never used Excel for any other purpose and first started using it because it was free and pre-installed! Horiuchi uses autoshapes in Excel and layers custom coloured shapes to create the image. All his work is online and has also been featured in museums.

●       Cary Walkin, an accountant from Canada, created a full-length role-playing game using an Excel workbook. He created Arena.Xlsm in five months, and released it in March 2013. It features 2,000 potential enemies and a storyline with four different endings, based on how the user navigates the game.

●       Pixel Spreadsheet, designed by Think Maths, allows you to convert any photo into an Excel spreadsheet. Think Maths describes the process as "cracking the digital photo file open, scraping out all of the numbers and putting them into the cells of an Excel spreadsheet."

Incredible Statistics about Excel...

·       Excel is now 30 years old. The first version of Excel was released for the Mac in 1985, Excel was only sold to Mac users at first, and the first Windows version was released in November 1987

·       There are over 1 billion users of Microsoft Office users worldwide

·       Excel became the first spreadsheet to allow the user to define the appearance of spreadsheets (fonts, character attributes and cell appearance).

·       Less than 5%¨of Excel spreadsheets contains anything else than pure data (eg. formulae, links, etc.)

"Despite being advanced users of Excel, we realised we constantly come across the same things over and over again! Whether it's a student or a financial controller we've all come across these issues and Excel is such an integral part of most people's work and student lives. That's why we decided to find out what exactly are the most common things people come across. This was based on interesting stats we found out when attending ModellOff in Microsoft's London offices in December 2015, the world's largest competition for finance, banking and accounting professionals. It ignited our interest in finding out more of these common encounters in Excel" -  Antoine Vettes, CEO of UpSlide

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