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Kryptonite and mortal enemies and genetic drift. No, it’s not a cyberpunk thriller, it’s just another day of Excel tweets. And it’s good to know that students can keep up with their Excel assignments, even if they’re snowed in. That’s exactly what I would have done, back in my university days. 
- I suppose it *is* important to have a plan. I just don’t get why said plan has to be in excel spreadsheet.
- Escaping Excel Hell- I don’t know if it’s a tech book or a cyberpunk thriller.
- Excel is like kryptonite to my creativity!
- I ran across an unusual site about Microsoft Excel that only posts Bacon recipe’s on Saturday. http://ow.ly/14UV2
- Does anyone know how to make boxplots (box and whisker charts) in Excel?
- Due to inclement weather the campus will be closed tomorrow but you can still EXCEL from your dorm room.
- i can’t even save my document! seriously, excel went from best friend to mortal enemy very quickly.
- through one error in excel, i have become unable to do ANYTHING without excel telling me i can’t change part of an array.
- I officially hate that bl**dy ribbon thing in excel. just spent ages looking to format axes, all on some new fangled tab #bahumbug
- You would think that a university with IT courses would produce a printable timetable. NO i am on excel creating my own! Grumble Grumble…
- trying to figure out how to model genetic drift on excel…argh! why did I choose this job?!?
- I’m making an Excel sheet for On Kissing Tom Legend. #amwriting #productivity #procrastination #denial #toomanyhashtags
- How can Excel have calculated things differently in November than today… I can’t work it out. Hugely frustrating so late in the day
- Her inability to read even the simplest excel spreadsheet makes me seriously wonder how she even gets to work every morning. -_- #wow
- Back to my excel spreadsheets! So happy I am back to my old duties at work. Numbers not people!
- I’m so not in the work zone, I just started typing my business figures in my twitter update instead of excel.
- Learned how to make an exploding pie chart in my excel training class… wish that was as exciting as it sounds
- I hope managers and executives watch "Undercover Boss" and take note: Get your asses in the trenches and quit looking at Excel spreadsheets!
- my wife is mad because I laughed at her. She put her new Windows login password in Excel. Now she can’t login and did not write down.
- Someone suggested I call myself an Excel Ninja (vs Excel Mercenary). Interesting thought.
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The Super Bowl hadn’t started when I collected the Excel related tweets on Sunday, so maybe that’s why there wasn’t much talk about football. You’d think that Excel would be the perfect tool to compile all those game statistics.
- My numbers for the Super Bowl Square Pool are "square root of X" & "=sum(b2:k2)". I hope the Colts go for a pivot table conversion!
- remembered too late that alcohol and Excel don’t mix
- Listening to the filthy classic ‘Ain’t No Fun’ from Snoop while working on an Excel spreadsheet. What an awesome combo.
- Not to see like a dork but I just learned how to make a "Tornado Chart" on Excel and I am more or less ecstatic
- nevermind, screw excel. I’d rather have pretty nails than something cool to show my boss.
- Anyone else feel murderous when Excel suddenly says "Hey! It looks like you’re managing a list!"?Almost as bad as the talking paper clip.
- I need an excel spreadsheet to keep track of my nephew’s revolving girlfriends.
- Anyway, turns out Excel is pretty great for dealing with bread formulae, especially once you bust out the =CONVERT() function.
- Using Excel so constantly at work is starting to turn it into a first-tier tool at home. BEIN’ ASSIMILATED SEND HELP.
- How is it possible that my dad is better than me at Microsoft Excel -____-
- Just learned how to add an average line in my excel chart. Thank You Google University! Hunter College I think you owe me my money back!
- my caffeine and excel addiction is pretty intense.
- 1 excel spreadsheet, 2 cookies, 3 charts, 4 books, 5 hours and a glass a wine later I have shaping and sizing with st pattern integrity!
- slow sunday, grey and cold, quiet streets. getting ready to do some work, always more relaxed to do excel pivot tables at home vs office
- Sometimes I hate using other people’s Excel spreadsheets. Its like…. What were they thinking?!?
- I hate how Excel feels the need to correct every number that I type. It won’t even let me type 10/10/10
- I think spread sheets would be an awesome project. My boss (60-something engineer) can’t even use excel.
- you know you’re getting too obsessive when you maintain an excel spreadsheet for all your cards
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Yesterday I had two votes for the uncategorized list of Excel related tweets, and zero votes against, so I’ll stick with this format. Thanks to Joe, for suggesting a bit of space between the list items. And I like Jon’s description of this format – stream of consciousness.
There are a couple interesting links, including one for Morse Code in Excel. Maybe you could rig it to play, “My Excel skillz bring all the boyz to the yard.”
- Excel has revolutionized the way I do my accounting homework.
- Someone should write "Excel for Totally Unmotivated Math-hating Lamebrains." A one-page book with one word: OUTSOURCE!
- Why is it that because you write software for a living people think you’re an expert with microsoft excel?
- my life in microcosm: learning how to do excel functions from a weight training manual #531
- I’m looking for a free/cheap way to create really cool 3D charts (pie and bar charts). Better than Excel, cheaper than InDesign. Anyone?
- Just got a ‘general mail failure’ in Excel. Glad their spelling is validated, but I still feel like less of a man.
- that’s cause most companies dedicate half their resources to shifting numbers in excel rather than actually producing anything
- Office of the speaker fails at excel charts. Jobs Lost as a negative number means jobs gained. http://j.mp/econrecov
- My Excel skillz bring all the boyz to the yard. My spreadsheet… is better than yours, damn right… it’s better than yours.
- I’m convinced that if Excel 2007 could cure aids AND cancer people still wouldn’t use it because of the ribbon…
- used to hate my budget… now i track it to the penny. my excel doc matches my back account… nerdy? yes. smart? i think so.
- it’s Friday afternoon and my work brain just shut off – right in the middle of creating this invoicing excel spreadsheet – oh well
- It’s amazing what you can do with Excel, amazing but really ugly
- Just realized that Excel 2007 moves the find box out of the way when scrolling… nice enhancement that took me 3 years to realize existed
- I can’t help it: I’m very proud of my "Clearing Command Center", an Excel-sheet I have reared from a cub to its present state of monstrosity
- designed an Excel Tool for translating "two switch Morse code" into Text – here’s how http://tinyurl.com/ybwzrhv – yay #disability #morse
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Here are some of my favourite Excel tweets from yesterday. Instead of breaking the tweets into categories, I’ll just post them in one long list. That should make it more serendipitous, and more “Twitter-like”.
Anyway, I just hope that nuclear reactors have better security than Excel does!
- Story idea: Admin’s typo yields Excel formula proving God exists. Boss deletes, as it doesn’t accurately track accounts. Universe vanishes.
- Wanna merge cells? – Excel pick up lines.
- Just discovering that VLookups in Excel aren’t fast. #WouldHaveBeenQuickerInPerl
- Dont talk to me about excel.
- i guess everyone is using excel to create charts – but that’s simply not cool
- Our graphic designer just hugged me because I showed her how to use the ‘concatenate’ function in excel. Am terribly amused.
- has finally finished entering all my 2009 receipts into an Excel spreadsheet. It only took 6 hours. Maybe this year I’ll enter them as I go.
- excel crashed just when i was about to finish my last sheet of work for the day. didn’t get angry though. just laughed and started over. (:
- Mom is home. I miss my silence already. The sound of she and the dogs eating pistachios as I duel with Excel may be the death of me.
- On standby for acute surgery, making love to a sprawling Excel file and wishing I was Speedo-clad beneath a waterfall of iced coffee.
- …and that’s how i spent 4 hours working in excel. on one sad little chart.
- Why can I order data better in iTunes than Excel, that’s stupid!!!
- Discussed favourite #Excel shortcuts with my boss. ALT+D+G+G (mine) beat CTRL+E+S+V (him). Clearly we’re scarred by previous jobs. #geek
- Made a silly mistake in Excel. If the same mistake occurred at a nuclear reactor, we’d all be quite dead.
So, what do you think? Is the uncategorized list better? Worse? No difference?
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It’s 2010, and we’re still struggling with Excel 2007. I hope the people at Microsoft are listening! And there’s some debate as to whether Excel charts are cool or old school. Part of the answer might be user dependent.
And if you’re not Canadian, you might not be familiar with Excel gum. Even John Walkenbach (Mr. Spreadsheet) was impressed: “Excel gum. Fresh breath and faster recalcs.”
Stupid Binocular Icon
- So that’s where is it. Stupid binocular icon. I like old Excel better.
- Found out that Excel 07 is not that awesome afterall, I’m disappointed. I couldn’t even add 2 rows in my spreadsheet
- I’m having a hard kicking 15 years of Excel habits. 2007 is the only version I didn’t immediately acclimate to.
- Excel 2007 is awesome, there are Access features built in! …and I love me some Access.
All Fired Up
- Have just set fire to dodgy version of excel spreadsheet. Feel better now.
- When I die and inevitably go to hell, there will be no fire or brimstone, just a workstation running Excel.
- I’m on tap to do a newsroom training session today on Excel and database reporting. Should I bring firecrackers to keep people awake?
- believes there must be a solar flare somewhere, technology is not friendly today. Phooey to portals, applications & excel spreadsheets.
Cool or Old School?
- Dude just do your Gannt Charts old school like in excel or MSFT Project.
- what tools do you use to make charts? anything better then excel?
- http://twitpic.com/zwng1 – With over 20 years of development, Excel’s chart tool still sucks.
- Cool Excel dashboard: charts update as mouse moves over regions on map (in Chinese by Wangxiang Liu) http://bit.ly/ac1LPe
Chew On That!
- I’ve been chewing this Excel gum for hours and I haven’t produced a single spreadsheet.
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P.S. For help with Excel, see Contextures Excel Tips and Tutorials
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Corruption, global warming, Smallpox – Excel related twitters cover all the hot topics! And if the Holy Bible in Excel doesn’t help with your corruption issues, check this article by Jan Karel Pieterse: Opening Corrupt Excel Files.
Hardly Working
- Continuously reformatting a workflow excel file can be a credible substitute for actual work.
- Today’s office tip: Having two excel sheets open at the same time makes you look twice as productive.
- I love playing with Excel.. People think I am working!
- the IT man got my email to work..but the excel running just as slow as before. #howdare he walk out the office like he solved global warming
The Good Book
- Huh. Apparently I’ve been holding on to a book called "Excel 97 Secrets". Think it’s worth anything?
- After several lengthy pages of Excel calculations for Info 631, my book states in a later chapter that there is a tool to automate my work.
- Time 2 turn on the music, open up the school books and see what torture microsoft excel has 4 me 2day!! Have I mentioned I HATE this class?
- Just the other day I said to myself, "If I only had the Holy Bible as an Excel worksheet…" http://bit.ly/4v6w3x
Computer Usage
- people who set borders on every cell on the spreadsheet in excel when only 10 rows and 6 columns have data should be banned from computers..
- Apparently I have corrupted an Excel workbook. corrupting innocent computer programs. does that make me immoral?
- Browse web, read articles, books, write emails — that is what 99% of people use a computer for. Very few do graphics design or Excel
- Folks still using their ‘puter mostly for email, Excel/PowerPoint for work. FB is their starter drug to more.
Vote Now!
- Can’t work out which is worse: Excel, Smallpox or Fascism. Vote now!
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P.S. For help with Excel, see Contextures Excel Tips and Tutorials
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Do you agree that sweats, slippers and Excel make you irresistible? And that would make excellent attire for the big football game that’s coming up.
And while I was getting this list of twitters ready, I accidentally discovered that you can’t spell ‘embarrassing’ without MBA. Well, that made me laugh, but maybe it’s because I don’t have an MBA.
Food and Drink
- Logging receipts in excel and eatin mac’n cheese. Do you find me irresistible right now? What if I told you I was wearing sweats & slippers?
- After the 15th burger I began to hallucinate, but the McFlurry took the edge off it. Now I have to work on some Excel spreadsheet.
- Celebrating cracking the indesign/numbers/excel problem with a glass of islay whisky and some isle of mull cheese.
- Clearly I cannot sing, count and enter information into an excel workbook at the same time T.T ~too much caffeine~
Lacking the Demons
- Filling out a big excel spreadsheet for work. Lots of clicking. Feels like I’m playing Diablo II. Just lacking the demons, evil, and fun.
- My son uses Word and Excel, mostly for school work. He also uses Excel for some virtual games he plays, based on Survivor.
- Leaving Excel Spreadsheet Hell and going home. Puerto Rico in 3 days. Then a very big football game..
- I’ve seen quizzes made with YouTube, I’ve seen Excel Jeopardy..the resources are there, we just need to use them. #gtchat
An MBA? How Embarrassing
- Reading Beinhocker’s "The Origin of Wealth"/ It’s time to redefine the financial model and stop listening to dumb MBAs with excel sheets.
- I’d show you my spreadsheet, but A) it’s in Excel 2010, and B) it’s so nerdy it’s embarassing.
- This excel spreadsheet TOTALLY kicks ass and the powerpoint will be even more kick ass!!!!! (Yes, I am a MBA student.)
Thanks Dad
- Drove thru a storm in irvine, sat down with dad and went thru his junior high yearbook, then taught mom how to use excel. Random night lol
- by ‘his’ I mean ‘dad’ … 93 in 3 weeks and he’s compiling an excel document on #burnley’s season; but he loves his ceefax, not t’internet
- My father just made an excel spreadsheet of my life to tell me how to scientifically plan my future options. fml.
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It’s February now, and time to start planning your garden, or shopping for food – whichever you do better.
And my hero is that guy who knew most of Excel already. That’s quite an accomplishment!
I Forgot
- happy! i got my spreadsheet done. had to re-learn excel, but it looks very spiffy!
- no problem, I love the keyboard shortcuts and USED to be an Excel guru of sorts but am out of practice these dys
- I forgot that I knew most of Excel already. Spreadsheets are easy. I needed that refresher so now it’s time to go even harder on the grind.
Garden Time
- Sorting out my seed box tonight and trying to make a sowing chart in excel. Technological help for horticultural organisation! yay!
- Love the idea of putting nonsense on a CV. "Proficient in word & excel, stopped licking strangers faces in 2002, keen gardener…"
- For you Excel addicts, Rosalind Creasy offers a free garden spreadsheet to keep track of your harvests: http://urlbit.us/i05
Google or Excel?
- Giving up on Google Docs today. Excel loves me better.
- Google Doc’s to the rescue where MS excel’s compatibility update wont help me.
- My spreadsheet skills are wretched. Excel and Google spreadsheets are my Achilles heel.
Shopping Lists
- Lovely representation of matrix multiplication in an Excel spreadsheet: http://bit.ly/5UhITg [shopping list]
- I’ve spent most of my day shopping online for bow ties and braces and working on an excel-centric lab report. Oh, I’m great fun.
- Looking for a cool food shopping excel spreadsheet template (Geared towards clean eating)
Still In Love
- Me: "I’m going to research types of dog." Hubby: "You don’t have to Excel spreadsheet the process."
- Just helped my wife over the phone with an Excel problem…we’re still in love. #miracle
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More Excel keyboard shortcuts on the Contextures website.
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Apparently Bill Gates hasn’t solved the world’s problems yet, and his pie charts and memos aren’t helping. And while we’re dropping names, Tufte was mentioned in the Excel-related tweets too.
And I don’t believe that you’ll fail to lose weight if you use Excel – that’s why I created the Excel Weight Loss Tracker !
A Numbers Game
- The Excel spreadsheet I opened in Apple’s Numbers is kicking its ass. Slow updates, beach ball, Force Quit. Microsoft wins this battle.
- Have you tried the apple version of Excel, Numbers! It makes pie charts delicious. And they have recipe templates!
- I just tried to open an Excel spreadsheet with over 400,000 rows in it. I think the core is going to melt right out of my Macbook.
- Well there is Excel for Mac as well, but Numbers is for when you care about beauty in your spreadsheet.
Word of the Day
- I’ve been looking for Excel "Data validation" button in Word for around 1 minutes. Am I stupid or what??
- I hate excel with a burning passion. why can’t I just use word? I’m SO not tech savvy…
- PowerPoint and Excel were on Tufte’s hit list today. But surprisingly Word was suggested for creating a presentation.
Weighty Subject
- If you’re using an excel spreadsheet to lose weight, I’m pretty certain you’ll fail
- I just made an Excel spreadsheet documenting my weight loss. With a chart. #geek
- Def just made an Excel spreadsheet to track my goal to lose 25 lbs…that’s how you know you’re a nerd.
Dear Bill
- yeah! maybe we should notify @BillGates about our excel hate.
- 15 years after Bill Gates’ Internet Tidal Wave Memo, I can’t export a usable html table from Excel. Yeesh
- I know that vaccines are working because I have a pie chart…, @BillGates on @ToTN. So Powerpoint & Excel are saving lives?
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It’s Friday, so please remember to take a bit of time away from Excel over the weekend. You’ll feel better by Monday!
Soothing Tunes
- making death metal covers of simon & garfunkel songs in my head… as i work away in excel (my favorite!)
- Beatles entering charts again. More Excel than iTunes… http://bit.ly/82FTpc
- Dudes plz, a midi keyboard and Fruityloops does not mean you have a studio.. & a PC w/ Word & Excel isnt an office. Or did I miss a memo ?
- Listening to Diana Krall. Swearing at Excel.
It’s Friday
- Nerd romance: when your Friday night consists of making a joint budget and laughing at the extremely dorky Excel spreadsheet options. Love!
- Great way to spend Friday night six hours of work lost in the office due to excel incompatability issue. I cried. Home now & will redo tomoz
- I forgot how good I am at excel. And my job. I kick ass. America rules. I love radio. FRIDAY NIGHT. Boxing makes my body hurt. PIZZA?!
Extra Geeky
- I enter geek mode in T minus two minutes. Jeopardy plus book lists & excel sheets. =)
- unsubstantiated assertion : excel-fu is inversely proportional to how technical you are.
- How geeky is it that I’m working on my own R.P.G. system using an Excel spreadsheet? I’m gonna say "virginally".
- Prolly the nerdiest thing ive ever done, but Ive gotten status updates to work from Excel. Looks like I’m working hard but #fb
Are You Sure?
- computer asks me: ‘you are about to open Excel for the first time. are you sure you want to open this application?’ and i think:
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P.S. For help with Excel, see Contextures Excel Tips and Tutorials
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