This Excel trick saved me 2 hours yesterday ✨

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Add Hundreds of Brand Logos in Seconds 🖼️

Imagine you’re building a company list or competitor analysis in Excel. To impress your boss, you’d love to add each company’s logo for that ✨ clean ✨ look. 

So you Google each logo, download images, resize them, insert them one by one…

 …at this rate, your boss will be two episodes into their post-dinner Gilmore Girls rewatch before you finish. 🫠 But what if I told you there’s a formula that does all of this for you? Here it is: 

Let me break it down: 

• IMAGE pulls an image from a URL directly into your cell. 

• CONCAT combines text to build that URL. It glues together:  

  • Google’s favicon service (a free tool that fetches the small icon associated with a website)

  • The company name from your cell

  • The “.com” to complete the domain 

That’s it! Now your boss is impressed and you’re home for dinner on time. 🍝

Self-Care Isn’t Always Pretty 💅

The modern definition of self-care is all about staying home, canceling plans, and relaxing. Bonus points if candles or a bubble bath are involved. 🛀 Cozy, aesthetic, well-lit. Right?

Totally. But, while those indulgent moments definitely have their time and place, sometimes self-care is the total opposite: uncomfortable, difficult, and downright ugly. 

It could be: 

• Setting a boundary that disappoints someone 

• Opening that budgeting spreadsheet you’ve been avoiding

• Going to that networking event when you’d much rather watch Love is Blind at home

I’ve experienced this firsthand. Back at my 9-5, my boss asked me to do a training on Excel tips. My immediate thought was: “Absolutely not.” I was terrified of public speaking, and canceling would’ve been so much easier. 

But I realized that saying “no” wouldn’t have been self-care. It would’ve been avoidance. So I agreed to present, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be! 

These things don’t look good in an Instagram post, and they don’t exactly make you feel warm and fuzzy. But they do move your life forward. 

So next time you’re tempted to cancel or avoid something, ask yourself: Is this rest? Or is resistance? The latter might be the best self-care you can do. 💫 

• Don’t waste 💰 on a second monitor. Just use this Excel trick instead. 

• Want to increase your luck? Try the 100 Connections Challenge. 🌐

• “I had no idea this existed,” says a video on my latest Excel tip.

• This is the perfect playlist to get in that cozy autumn vibe. 🍂

• Boss: “Can you flip this data?” Me: “Give me 10 seconds.”

Thanks for reading! Hope work’s going well today. Even if it’s not, at least you didn’t accidentally shut down half of the internet like one AWS employee did in 2017. 

The story? They made a typo while debugging…on a server that hosted thousands of major sites. Chaos ensued.

Could be worse. 😅

Stay Exceling, 

Kat