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Professor Clint Tuttle recently concluded his class this spring at the University of Texas at Austin with an inspirational song parody of sorts. To the tune of Justin Bieber’s song “Love Yourself,” Tuttle busts out his acoustic guitar in front of his lecture podium and sings to his students about how one day when they have graduated and are working they will appreciate learning about Microsoft Excel in his class.
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In his lyrics, Professor Tuttle says he is writing this song to remind his students that even though for all those times they “sat up working really late… And those Excels that had you cursing my name,” Excel is really useful.
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His song goes on to make his case to his students why Excel is important with verses like:
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My students don’t like it but then they see the light
\nAnd they never like to admit that I was right
\nAnd after college they get jobs,
\nAnd they see what’s going on
\nBut now they know,
\nThat Excel is more a friend than foe
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And of course the song is filled with some nerdy uses of Excel functions and terminology in his plea to his students with lines like:
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Many years from now, when you have left UT
\nAnd you use your these skills well please think of me
\nYou’ll probably use conditional formatting
\nThose nested ifs will come in handy you’ll see
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Pivot Tables kick…butt
\nAnd you got your functions on!
\nUse countif, sumif, even vlookup too
\nMaybe 3-d charts too
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Hopefully Professor Tuttle’s unique appeal to his class will stick in his students mind and they will appreciate all the long hours they spent agonizing over Excel during college. Because the Professor is right, Pivot Tables do kick butt in the working world.
