u/sriautomations

Me: This will be a quick 5-minute Excel task.

Excel: Interesting.

5 minutes later:

• Why is the formula returning #N/A?
• Who merged these cells?
• Why are dates stored as text?
• Why does one value have a trailing space?
• Why is there a hidden column Z?
• Who named this file Final_v2_Actual_Final_UseThisOne.xlsx?
• Why does the pivot table say 0 when my eyes say 47,382?

2 hours later:

• Learned three new formulas
• Questioned my career choices
• Muted my entire family
• Created a masterpiece no one will ever understand
• Saved the file as Final_v2_Actual_Final_UseThisOne_REALLYFINAL.xlsx

Boss: Looks great. Can you make the header blue?