How to crash MS Excel

1. Build a data table that is crucial for thesis writing - is crucial for graduating in time to get a working visa and start work with company you like.

2. Wait till the last minute to work so that by the time you make the table, there's only one week to defense day, your thesis is only half done and you're ready to curl up in a fetal position, cover your ears with both hands, and sing "lalalala i dont hear anything" 24 hrs a day.

3. Ensure that there are multiple columns and rows, and multiple columns under each of those columns. Merge Header cells that heads several columns.

4. Enter vital information collected from experiments, formed in large part by your sweat, blood and tears. Spend no less than one hour.

5. Make formulas in excel to perform complex calculations on data.

6. Calculated results doesn't make sense. Take 30minutes to check calculations and formula entry one by one.

7. Scratch head and watch youtube for 30 minutes because grad schools are not too selective about intelligence or problem solving skills when admitting students. (All the really smarty arses had dropped out at the undergrad level anyways and founded their own tech company which IPO-ed at 150USD per share last may)

8. Finally figure out whats wrong and correct it.

9. Draw lines in table. Take pleasure in coloring columns and rows, and drawing fancy double lined boxes around data.

10. Sigh in pleasure at work of art+science. Realize that some of the headers are merged wrongly.

11. **CRUCIAL STEP** DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT under any circumstances save the file.

12. Try to unmerge the wrongly merged header cells. Hi-light 3 merged headers and click "unmerge" (which is actually the same as the "merge " button) - that works.

13. Get greedy and try to unmerge every available header at the same time. About 18 of them.

14. **Poof**

15. Ask "Where the heck did my excel file go?"

16. Don't panic. try recovering file.

17. Recovery fail.

18. Panic.