Merged cells in shared workbooks drive me up the wall—why do people do this to us?!
What’s your biggest Excel pet peeve? Get it off your chest!

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They merge cells because they don't realize they can select the cells and align across the selection.

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That’s true I’ve had someone told me that before lol

I don't know if it's still the case now, but I hate that some features don't work on MacBook. e.g. Macros or VBA

I'd either need another Windows machine or some virtual machine.

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Oh yes that’s so annoying shouldn’t be exclusive to one operating system

ALT HMU and move on, my man / woman

Haha that’s funny I read that as HIt me up

I absolutely detest logging into a shared workbook and the pages are lit up light a Christmas tree with every possible color combination imaginable, but absolutely no key included anywhere to tell you what they mean. I get it that people find this a really easy way to mark things as "to do", or "complete", or "have a question", but once one person does it, someone else does and inevitably they never use the same colors. Next thing you know there are 20 different colors and no one can remember what any of them mean. Drives me up the wall.

Omg you get it !!

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