Hi folks,
Today is valentines day. So I thought I should share a few love letters I recently got.
Correction: These letters are not for me, but for our site – Chandoo.org
Addendum: Don’t write me off yet. In my college days I did get all of 17 love letters, mostly because campus postman mistook me (room number 79) for the six foot athletic hunk in room number 29.
While I may not get cat calls & suggestive remarks when I walk on the street, Chandoo.org, the site would totally be kissed and hugged by people of all sexes and ages (well 21 and above).
You see, our site is like Ryan Gosling of Excel websites (or Mila Kunis). Those of slightly older can imagine Chandoo.org as George Clooney or Marissa Tomei of the data analysis world.
How else can I explain the barrage of love letters I get for Chandoo.org?
Here is a sample
Sent by Paul Wyatt,
Hi Chandoo.
Many thanks for your patience and understanding. I have now successfully purchased your course and look forward to discovering Power Pivots and applying your teachings to my own employment. It will be very interesting to see what can be achieved by bringing Excel, VBA (downloaded but still yet to learn) and SQL together with Power Pivots.
I am very excited to be on this course. You really are a fantastic tutor and have made a real difference. You don’t offer value for money, you offer excellent and complete services for incredible prices. There is nothing else out there that is as immediately useable as your courses are.
Kindest regards,
Paul Wyatt
Read our love letters this valentines day
Of course, Paul is not the only one raving about Chandoo.org. There are more. So I created a love letters page. Here you can find some of the recent letters I got. I will update this page with more as we go.
Love is not one way street
Of course, it would be cruel to take all this love and give nothing back. But you know I am not like that.
So here we go again.
I truly love you,
because you take time to learn
because you respond to me with comments
because you share your knowledge with me
because you correct me when I am wrong
because you always open my mails
because you tell others about me
because you smile when I joke (even if it is a geeky silly joke)
because you support me by buying what I sell
because you force me to be better at what I do
and above all,
because you are awesome!!!
Do you love Chandoo.org?
We love you too!!!
Go ahead and profess your love for Chandoo.org in these 4 ways:
- Tell your colleagues / friends why you love us. Send them here.
- Tweet your love
- Like us in Facebook. Tell the world about your relationship with us.
- Leave a comment and tell why you love us.
Go!
PS: The picture (of woman writing a love letter) is how I am imagining you. Gorgeous, happy, fun & awesome.
11 Responses
Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!