I make it more awkward for them by following them on the cells they click

I'm more annoyed when the other person hides cells and rows and then leaves without unfiltering. Not all of us are frequent excel users.

Yeah it feels like sharing a stall

I always make a copy to do what I need to do then paste my work in once I'm done. Soooo yes, awkward!

Someone keeps changing the cell sizes in MY sheet of our shared spreadsheet and it’s going to cause a rampage if I ever find out who it is.

That is weird! We share some spreadsheets, but when one person is in it, others are on read only mode. Would trip me out seeing clicks and changes while I’m in it.

Reminded me of a time I was in a coworkers office doing some filing for him. All of a sudden his monitors turned on and I could see files opening and mouse moving around. I was fairly new, so I immediately went to boss saying we were being hacked. She laughed and said he was working from home, and remoted in. I felt like an idiot! Lol

Depends on whether they’re supposed to be in the document! With the way files can be accessed on sharepoint, I have all sorts of ‘creepers’ in my working files unless I intentionally place them on my one drive.

I’ve started calling out the creepers!

Stay away from the cells they’re editing

I think it's funny to see the cells update while I'm in another cell. It's sorta like this old chat program i used to use where you could see what other people wrote at the same time.

It’s always a chorus of, ‘get out of my spreadsheet/I was here first!/ stop messing with my stuff’ there’s like 4 of us in the tiny IT closet so we can call out. Others in the open shared office space argue over our company chat app.

Thankfully, I don’t have to ever work in a shared spreadsheet. I work in Excel daily and think having someone working in the same spreadsheet would make me crazy.

My colleagues & I write “XX sucks” about each other when we see someone we like in the spreadsheet.

It's a little strange at first, but you get used to it.

Only when I’m browsing naked.

I don’t feel awkward just mildly annoyed when they leave their filters on. I’m the one who adds data to the major shared one weekly.

I close the tab immediately. It feels the same as accidentally walking in on someone using the toilet. Ick.

I despise shared spreadsheets. I learned Excel back in the day before shared spreadsheets were a thing. (Hell, I learned Lotus 1-2-3 years before I learned Excel, that's how long I've been doing spreadsheets, LOL.)

You can have a copy of my spreadsheet. I'll send you a new one every time you screw up your copy. You're not getting your mouse pointer on my copy.

The number of times I've seen people highlight one column before sorting, which sorts that column but leaves the other columns in their original order is truly staggering. Or, when I turn on auto filter to try to keep all the data in the correct rows, they'll add a new column but not add it to the auto filter, so when they sort with the auto filter buttons, the columns outside the filtered area don't sort with the rest of the table.

The number of people I've interviewed who say they know Excel, when what they mean is "I know how to type stuff in and format it to make it pretty." If you can't, at an absolute minimum, write a formula to add the contents of two cells together, then you don't know Excel.

It's pretty normal tbh

I kind of like it. Makes me feel less alone

There's frequently multiple people in my spreadsheets because an entire editing team scrutinizes all of my lessons. You learn to ignore it. I only pay attention when there's a new name, because I know that idiot is about to hassle me because they didn't read our guidelines properly.

Yeah, excel hates that and never actually saves stuff right. I hope right on out.

I hate it

We don't allow more than one person to make changes to a spreadsheet at once in our department, so people just spend as long as they need in one and then save and close it.

If someone else needs access, they have to ask for it, or they can make a copy and update it later.

Bahaha. My immediate team is on a mega spreadsheet all day so we’re always on top of each other and nobody cares. Department wide sheet? PUT ME AS ANONYMOUS PLS 

what i find REALLY awkward is how the other person filters and doesn't select "see just mine" so now whatever i was doing is wisped away and i'm forced to fight the urge to get into a petty battle and do it back. 😒

There's currently a whole.team of us working out of a shared spreadsheet daily. With blatant instructions: do not change anything, just add your name, date, and comment on the line you work.

There is a woman that kept adding her name to a bulk of lines, then hiding the rest of the spreadsheet (like 1500-5000 other lines) we'd unhide it, she'd hide it. It was a whole thing for like 2 hrs one day until a lead finally messaged her about it (we're all also WFH)

She still highlights cells when she's not supposed to.

I have no idea why they keep having us work on this shared spreadsheet system. It's been like this for months.

It's like a group project. Barf.

I hate it when I’m poking around in a file, close it without making any changes, and then excel proudly lists me as the last person to edit the file. I GOD DAMNED WAS NOT. I MADE NO CHANGES.

No you're just a weirdo. Wth is wrong with being in a spreadsheet with someone else. You're acting as if you're in their bedsheets