Spreadsheet Day 2021 Roundup

Thanks for celebrating Spreadsheet Day 2021, and here is a roundup of some of the day’s posts and tweets.

Excel Poetry

Again this year, Brian Bilston tweeted an Excel-based poem, in honour of Spreadsheet Day. The poem’s title is ‘Love Excels’.

Today is #spreadsheetday apparently so here’s a poem in an Excel spreadsheet. pic.twitter.com/MuCjA257J4

— Brian Bilston (@brian_bilston) October 17, 2021

Microsoft Loves Spreadsheets

The Microsoft Excel account shared a mini video, to show a few of the useful things you can do with Excel.

Have fun and then SUM—It’s #SpreadsheetDay! We hope yours is anything but AVERAGE. pic.twitter.com/2L2gHGSBa6

— Microsoft Excel (@msexcel) October 17, 2021

The Microsoft 365 account tweeted this tribute to Spreadsheet Day, with a formula and a beautiful green heart.

Happy #SpreadsheetDay! How are you celebrating?

=SUM(Excel, #SpreadsheetDay) = pic.twitter.com/Zl0BKk8cBY

— Microsoft 365 (@Microsoft365) October 17, 2021

Spreadsheet Games

Spreadsheet Day was on a Sunday this year, so we had time to play spreadsheet games, instead of working all day.

Ken Puls, from Excel Guru, shared his Excel Blackjack game.

Know what’s so special about October 17? It’s #SpreadsheetDay! Started by @ddalgleish in 2010, it celebrates the day VisiCalc was first released in 1979. Have a bit of fun with my #Excel Blackjack game: https://t.co/8wofSv1Fnw pic.twitter.com/jLJ4mHfxhA

— Ken Puls, FCPA, FCMA (@kpuls) October 17, 2021

On the Microsoft Tech Community Excel Blog, Robert Gascon shared his Excel Chess Games Viewer 2.0. Here’s the tweet about it, from Brian Jones, who is Head of Product, Excel

Happy #SpreadsheetDay everyone!
People love Excel… it helps them succeed. It’s the ultimate tool to help you analyze information and make better decisions.
Thanks to the flexible grid, and formulas, it’s amazing what people can create: https://t.co/twCK4QPPOF

— Brian Jones (@jones206) October 17, 2021

Google Sheets

Ben Collins is a Google Sheets expert, and he tweeted this formula and green heart for Spreadsheet Day.

Happy Spreadsheet Day! #Spreadsheetday #GoogleSheets

=IF(TODAY()=DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),10,17),CHAR(128154),”Just another day”) pic.twitter.com/CN74MzcewB

— Ben Collins (@benlcollins) October 17, 2021

Spreadsheet History

The lovely people at Tiller have been long-time supporters of Spreadsheet Day. Here is their Happy Spreadsheet Day tweet, with a link to their article about this wonderful day.

It’s here – Happy #SpreadsheetDay! Spreadsheet Day was founded by @ddalgleish and occurs every Oct. 17 to celebrate the anniversary of the release of #VisiCalc. More: https://t.co/NdiIngke3s pic.twitter.com/xQL82MPKMO

— Tiller (@tillermoney) October 17, 2021

The Spreadsheet.com account posted a short video of their spreadsheet history workbook

Happy Spreadsheet day! To celebrate the spreadsheet’s 42nd birthday, we’ve created a workbook highlighting several spreadsheet products, and the people and companies behind them: A Brief History of the Commercial Spreadsheet https://t.co/2XX71mx7uY #spreadsheetday pic.twitter.com/fs0eNycKJh

— Spreadsheet.com (@spreadsheetcom) October 17, 2021

Stephen Huppert reminded us that Spreadsheet Day commemorates the date that VisiCalc was first released, in 1979.

Happy #SpreadsheetDay commemorates the date that #VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program for personal computers, was released 17 October 1979 pic.twitter.com/UmVKcI7jC3

— Stephen Huppert (@stephenhuppert) October 17, 2021

Tony De Jonker has been using spreadsheets since way back in 1985! How long have you been using spreadsheets?

Happy Spreadsheet Day 2021!

How many years of spreadsheet experience do you have?

I started my spreadsheet experience in the year that Marty McFly went back to the future (1985)#spreadsheetdayhttps://t.co/dD5tIZxYte pic.twitter.com/OBqd3iDWTS

— Tony De Jonker (@TonyDeJonker) October 17, 2021

Final Thoughts

And finally, here’s a tweet from CFDuggan, who offers this excellent advice, “When in doubt, Spreadsheet it out”

It’s #spreadsheetday during #ADHDAwarenessMonth, so basically it’s Christmas for the bees in my brain. pic.twitter.com/nGlgZavTiR

— CFDuggan (@nssaltfarmer) October 17, 2021

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