The Pink Shoe Diaries

i am in an abusive relationship with MS Excel.

it's true. Excel knows that I am intrigued by it, that I need it for work, that it has the capacity to make my life very easy.

but instead of doing what it should, it screws me time and time again.

at work, i do a lot of contact management and we recently made the move from the wretched ACT to MS Excel which makes it more accessible to everyone, rather than just a few ACT savvy gals.

and initially i was psyched about this because there is so much more you can do with Excel. labels, graphs, letters, you name it! so you see from the beginning we were in love.

but with every new thing i learn about Excel, i learn one more way to make a horrible mistake. like, let's say, permanently erasing all the street addresses out of the database while trying to use the "Text to Columns" feature.

i'm not saying I did this, i'm just saying it's possible.

it could definitely happen.

realy, Excel just needs to calm down a little, and cut me some slack.

anyway as of now Excel and i are not on speaking terms. If Excel wants to be part of my work-life then it will just have to learn, among other things, that the phrase "Mr & Mrs" does not need three seperate columns, that you should be able to hit "Undo" indefinitely, and that since i AM fallable, it needs not to be.


I miss my ex, ACT :(