We should have some fun as it is the start of a long weekend and the end of summer.
So what better way to have fun than with some pranks. And better yet, Excel Pranks.
I saw a great thread in an Excel forum about pranks that you can do in Excel. Most of them involved VBA, so I thought about ones that you can pull on your boss and co-workers without VBA. Let me know what you think and if you have any great pranks in the comments below.
Non-VBA Prank 1
Change the Excel Options Default Font = Wingdings and Font Size = 72
To do this, go to Excel Options from the File ribbon:
And then from the General Tab, change the font and font size:
Non-VBA Prank 2
Remove all the Ribbons from the Customize the Ribbons Excel Options.
To do this, go to Excel Options from the File ribbon:
And uncheck all of the Main Tab ribbons.
These Excel Pranks will work after you close Excel
and reopen a BLANK workbook:
When your (soon to be not so close) friends do this, their Excel workbook will look crazy like this:
With no ribbons at the top and almost all text and numbers changed to unreadable symbols.
Video Demonstration.
Let me know how long it takes your co-workers to fix the problems. I bet 5 minutes at least. Here is to you hoping you have had a great summer!
Steve=True
