Fun Christmas Quiz - in Excel

As everyone is winding down to Christmas, I thought something a bit light-hearted and seasonal was called for.

I have spent Thursday afternoon creating an Excel spreadsheet containing a seasonal (and entirely pointless) quiz - so you can have an equally unproductive Friday! Get all of the answers right and reveal a Christmas picture and message from Spreadsheets by Email.

Pass it round the office and try to do it without Google!

Get your Christmas Quiz (in Excel) at the link below:

Download your Seasonal Fun Christmas Quiz

...and Merry Christmas

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Great Excel Resource

I have previously linked to posts on the Pointy Haired Dilbert blog, as he has some great content, particularly on Excel Charts.

He has just brought all of this content together and indexed it at Learn Excel Online. I have bookmarked it. If you use Excel, particularly for charts, I suggest you do to.

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Giving thanks in a recession

It's Thanksgiving today for our friends across the Atlantic and this made me think how little we take the time to be thankful.

It's easy to lose perspective if business is difficult, you are not sure if your job is safe and maybe the added financial pressure of Christmas approaching is causing genuine stress and worry, but we all have things to be thankful for.

Whether it be good friends, family or even just the fact that we are not starving and we have a roof over our heads, many around the world could show us why we should be grateful.

I for one am truly grateful for my amazing wife and children.

What have you to be thankful for?

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Preparing for the new year

I know this may sound a little premature but "What is your New Year's Resolution, when it comes to work?"

Many of you will have a December year-end, but for everyone else the end of the year provides a natural breakpoint too.

Why is this important now?

Typically, you will resolve that something will work differently in the new year. This will require a new process, new software or some other change to your working environment to enable the change. If things are to be different in the new year, these enabling changes need to be starting to happen now. If you leave them until the new year, they are unlikely to get started until, say, February (once you have caught up after the break), they may then take, say, a month to implement, turning your new year's resolution into a reality in March, rather than January.

So, back to my earlier question, "What is your new year's resolution?" and "What do you need to implement now to make it a reality?"

If the answer involves a spreadsheet, why not let Spreadsheets by Email do it for you and you can concentrate on planning your office party!

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