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You knew it would happen – Excel 2007 has a million rows, and now people want 2 million. Meanwhile, the 6th graders are playing Excel battleship, and learning about those bad variable names. If you’d like to play too, my friend Andrew Engwirda has a free version of Excel Battleship that you can download.
- i made an excel spreadsheet for all the countries i have coins from. i’m very organized and i like it.
- lets all be sophisticated adults and spend the evening at starbucks with our laptops out and type numbers into microsoft excel
- Can’t look at inappropriate websites at work. That’s when I’m thankful that my biggest turn-on is Excel spreadsheets in Arial 10pt. font.
- #learnsomethingeveryday You can do GANTT charts with Excel. Impressed. No idea HOW but I hear it can be done.
- poor use of excel really irritates me. what’s up with skipping rows? do you even know why you’re using a spreadsheet? ergh!
- Kids ask me all the time. How can I make it in this biz? My answer? Learn how to use Excel… Seriously.
- I’ve got an Excel spreadsheet THIS BIG, and it’s got "pain in my ass" written all over it.
- Staring at a pile of paperwork, while an Excel spreadsheet tries to sneak up on me. Good morning!
- http://twitpic.com/17q7az – Apparently my pivot table/chart shenanigans was just too much for poor old Excel
- Spreadsheet activities with 6th grade today – Excel Battleship to review cell naming, cell formatting & using multiple sheets.
- So I’ll be spending the rest of the day and likely part of tomorrow running queries and exporting results to Excel. Hooray for audiobooks!
- Access, why can’t you be more like your brother Excel?!
- excel graph render yet? Have frequently gotten coffee myself so my pivot had time alone to think…
- My needs have apparently surpassed what a spreadsheet is capable of! Never! I will make excel do even this! *gets wizard hat*
- protip: dont put your save button next to your undo button in excel
- Dear Microsoft: Now I need TWO millions lines per worksheet. When is Excel 2011 hitting the market? #pleaseandthankyou
- Thanks to magical Excel training, I can now make the FANCIEST of charts and/or graphs. Delicious.
- turn off auto-save. A lot of times when i work in big spreadsheets excel gets hosed by the auto-save constantly running
- Important rule for work: never be more than 1 alt-tab from an excel spreadsheet
- An excel sheet is nothing but a list of equations, with bad variable names. Never thought of it that way.
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Those computer games disguised as Excel sound fun, but it’s hard enough to get your work done, without those kinds of distraction. And now I have to go and find a jar that I can put on my desk, for people to drop in their tips.
- Things i dont enjoy- meetings, excel sheets and meetings with excel sheets!
- Thought I was gonna get some work done tonight so I didn’t have to do it tomorrow. Turns out I sent myself the wrong excel sheets. #heated
- I’m almost done with my undergrad career, and I still can’t make a chart in excel correctly.
- this dude leading my Excel training class is so animated.. I feel like I’m in a game show.
- I could use a day without Excel. Kthx.
- MS Word may suck but Excel still rules. Just got reintroduced to the concept of pivot tables. Awesome tool that I need to pull out more.
- I just *love* meetings where people just read through an Excel spreadsheet (in Comic Sans). Thanks for killing my brain cell by cell.
- What a day! I "love" working in #excel and figuring out formulas. I doubt Jack Bauer had to deal with these kinds of headaches. #24
- Boss gave me an excel task worth 4 hours of work. Figured out a nifty shortcut that got me done in 10 mins LOL
- The dude sitting next to me in the lab has a super easy excel problem i wanna solve but i tried to talk to him earlier and he didnt like it
- There is a goal in my group at work to stump me in Microsoft word or excel. So far, no luck.
- It’s kind of funny when Excel crashes every time I try to save a workbook. You know, save frequently, in case it crashes. Yeah. Funny.
- Heh! Computer games disguised as Excel and Word prove a hit with office workers – Telegraph http://bit.ly/aCsWS3
- I’m so happy to have excel back on my pc. I {heart} text to columns functionality the most… #itsthelittlethings
- you could probably run the world on MS Excel if you knew how to. i’ve seen spreadsheets that could blow your mind!
- Sometimes, I am so helpful at work… I think I should put a tip jar on my desk. "Help with Excel, recommended $5 tip"
- Moment of truth: will project supervisor think my spreadsheet is pretty? Or will it assault her eyeballs like an Excel paintball war?
- God runs the Universe using a big Excel spreadsheet full of busted Macros and VBA written by the guy who was doing the job before him.
- just spent an hour coming up with a complex excel eq’n, then found the same results after a minute of dicking around with pivot tables
- But Numbers is a long way behind even old versions of Excel. No Pivot tables!!! The end of civilisation in my opinion!
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Didn’t we all have youthful dreams of spending our days in Excel? Or maybe that’s a result of the Norwegian work ethic (which I’d never heard of before). But if you’re struggling to create a clustered stacked chart, like today’s tweeter, there’s a link at the end of this post, that should help you.
- Got a new computer at work with excel 2007. 4 the first time in my life I am computer illiterate. Not good!
- Is it wrong that I think the iPad does nothing that I want it to? like, oh….word processing? Excel?
- I am becoming an Excel NINJA. I can now do things with charts you can only dream of.
- Considering cloning myself. After programming in Excel it can’t be that hard right?
- Poli Sci midterm grades are apparently up, but hosted in an Excel spreadsheet. Guess which program I deleted months ago?
- Durrrrr Excel, I didn’t want you to do exactly what I told you, I wanted you to solve my problem. Can’t you read between the lines?
- Feeling fulfilled. Ever since I was a little girl I remember saying that when I grew up all I wanted was to work in Excel M-F 8-5.
- So did I (my boss thinks I’m crazy for clapping at my "excel spreadsheet")
- I feel like I have been sucked in, swallowed and spat out by an excel spreadsheet this afternoon. Nice.
- Power just went out at work. I am so lucky I have a laptop & can continue working on this excel sheet, not the Internet. /sarcasm
- I just discovered pivot tables in Excel. It feels like I’ve been living under a rock.
- Gr, I hate Microsoft Excel. I couldn’t figure out how to make a bar graph. I’m going to paint.
- “Document not saved.” How about a little more information, Excel? >:(
- So it turns out that once your data grows to over 60mb in an excel 2007 book, everything takes a million years even with calc off #patience
- needs 2 get off twitter & fb & get back 2 that excel spreadsheet of tax info. get that done & then have fun. norwegian work ethic!
- My boss knew 2 brothers called Excel & Enter. Do they have sisters called Alt & Shift, and parents called Caps Lock & Delete?
- Dear Apple: why do none of the function keys work in Excel for Macs? When I hit F2, I do not want a brighter screen.
- Granted this is the same class where the professor(yes, he has a PhD) said that Excel and Access were both databases.
- Maybe not a stupid question, but this one makes me laugh whenever my students ask it: "Do companies really use Excel?"
- Ha! Excel 2007 I’ve found something you can’t do, a clustered stacked chart. Currently trying to figure this out by my head isn’t helping
- I wish I could respond the same way Excel responds to me every time someone disturbs me at work…#(Not Responding)
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These Excel tweets from the weekend show that even the hard working Excel users take a bit of time for fun and games occasionally. And I don’t know who the mystery man was, who suggested XY Chart Labeler, but it’s a free utility that every Excel user should download and install.
- Finally finished with the dog baths & nail clippings. Will spring clean a bit, then will work on that "Excel for Dummies" book.
- I spent the majority of my day tryig to figure out a problem in excel. This guy overhears the issue and goes: XY labeler. How did he know?
- Then turn on 2nd game. Or open up Excel and get writing some code for a true cost analysis. Make it concrete. Ladies go for that.
- cubeville btw, is not nearly as cute as farmville. There are no level 12 warrior pigs in cubeville. Just Excel spreadsheets & sales revenue.
- Waking up early to get some work done and having Excel crash 3 times. I think it wanted me to sleep in.
- I have successfully pruned the guestlist down from 50-odd to 29. I love Excel’s ‘delete row’ command!
- I have an Excel spreadsheet to chronicle every concert I’ve been to. I’m pretty certain that puts me in the running for biggest dork ever.
- Why yes, Excel, I’d love it if you bogged down my only burst of productivity on weeks by CRASHING EVERY FIVE MINUTES. How did you know?
- Usually I’m a fan of Apple products, but Numbers is just so lacking compared to Excel, it’s unbelievable.
- Is it me or does excel rarely assume the correct function when i drop data into a pivot table?
- Consolidating all of my MBA career-reflection excercises into one spreadsheet. Made some interesting connections. Gotta love Excel.
- MS Excel rounds it to 162.8 so it’s probably 162.9. Mind you, when you are married the wife is always right so you decide.
- *rolls a 9 sided dice* (also known as generating a random number in excel)
- I’m comparing pre-pay cards. Seems you pay a one-off fee, or regular fees, or per purchase, or or or or… may have to make a pivot table!
- Built an excel spreadsheet for computing the full costs of a nanny share (and compare them). I’m a geek, but now she loves me for that sheet
- Gotta get out of bed to go see Alice in Wonderland then somehow complete my Excel homework by tonight.
- I got my Excel certification back in high school, even. I get to color code, and make graphs, and eee, yes. I love it.
- Looking for someone who is an excel expert who can write a simple (or maybe complicated?) macro
- Your copy of Excel should not say "non-commercial use" when presenting at a biz networking event.
- Okay, so I’ve got an essay, a presentation, and an excel project to work on, but by God this Halo isn’t going to play itself.
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Apparently one tweeter didn’t like the pivot table presentation at Ignite Minneapolis. I’d never heard of that event before, but if they include pivot tables, it must be good! Now I have to go and try to straighten my fingers.
- I have all this fancy software, and I always end up using Excel for everything.
- our dependence on excel and calculators is astonising….an outdated thing called brain doesnt work at all now
- Ok my computer teach turned out pretty cool. She might not know how to work excel but she’s giving me credit for my wrong asnwers on my test
- Aside from the pivot table guy, I’ve had a smile on my face the entire time. #ignitempls
- nice cruise around lake minnetonka to escape work and the almighty excel-spreadsheet-land i’ve been living in all day
- as an english major, i never expected to use excel this much. i could use a course in it.
- I haz mad excel skills. By which I mean I can make simple formulae. Actually have mediocre excel skills. (Nobody tell my boss)
- today i have tweeted, facebooked, phones, texted and skyped, oh and Imd. TODAY I am all about communication (OR avoiding excel spreadsheet)!
- My goal is to LOOK busy! *opens up excel spreadsheet with lots of different colors*
- in case you were wondering. the bathroom is not an appropriate place to be talking about your excel spreadsheet.
- Spring break option #1: 120-hour, caffeine fueled, currency trading bender w/ 4 monitors, 3 computers and countless charts and excel windows
- Hmmm I think I’ve beaten Excel into submission, though not sure I’ve retained data accuracy… time for lunch!
- using somebody’s excle is REALLY pain. especially when it is customer’s excel and they do not allow us to customise..and macro!
- The Lions gave Burleson $11M. According to this sophisticated Excel spreadsheet, that’s $3.6M per TD he scored. Bargain!
- sometimes it’s cathartic to empty your brain into excel
- Oh Microsoft…that little "x" that you decided to add to your new Excel spreadsheet file type caused me hours of unneeded frustration.
- Sometimes I imagine what it would be like if Excel did all the good stuff it does, but also didn’t piss me off all the time
- Did I really just get in a fight over an excel sheet? God I’m a dork. Off to shove myself into a locker.
- been working on an excel spreadsheet literally for 7 hours. i can no longer straighten my fingers.
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Yes, I’ve absent-mindedly tried to copy and paste from Excel to a piece and paper, just like today’s Excel tweeter. It didn’t work for me either.
- i’m going to pass out if i dont start some excel work…
- Excel is a curiously terrible program. Simple things like putting a title on a chart’s legend require a degree in h4xx0rzing to accomplish.
- Autoshapes is the most underrated feature of MS Word and Excel
- Oh, gross, I just accidentally opened Excel.
- Silly me: Just tried to copy sth from Excel to a handwritten note w/cmd+c and cmd+v. It did not work!
- Am I the only one that uses Excel to chart hypothetical revenue IF such-and-such happens or IF you make such-and-such sales per month?
- I fell asleep at 4, meant to get up at 5, just woke up at 9 and haven’t even started my excel sheet. do the math
- really? You’re in a deep enough science class to require excel? Cool!
- Getting the hang of Excel. Not too good w/using SIN, COS or TAN functions tho. But maybe that’s b/c I was never good w/those to begin with.
- i hate when people make/keep garbage excel sheets. a little formatting and word wrap can do wonders for presentation and understandability.
- When you stare into an Excel spreadsheet long enough you start to see little colonies of people growing in each cell. #fb
- Teaching Excel is tiring.
- Working out the VBA to create multiple charts. You’d think this is the kind of capability Excel would have out of the box.
- same thing I reckon. We’ve only called them charts since excel came along. There are no graphs in excel.
- You know the job’s urgent when… the Art Director is using Excel to chart up stuff.
- Worked out how to calculate the straightline distance between two points on the earth’s surface using Excel. For 24,500 separate points!
- Idly wondering how many person-hours have been lost over the years to dealing with Excel’s stripping of leading ‘0’s from zipcodes
- Figured out how to make a budget spreadsheet in Excel. Now if only I had an income. *looks at GMail box for job replies*
- You know you use excel too much when you press the = button before you put the numbers in on a calculator
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Bad day in Excel twitters, with plenty of errors, swearing and drinking. Or maybe that’s just an average day. Anyway, how’s your day going?
- It’s worrying how satisfying I am finding getting a macro to work in excel :s. Click, flashy screen, success, woo! #geek #tragic
- Spent the last 20 minutes showing a guy I work with how to change the font size in Excel He spent the whole morning trying to figure it out
- Excel on this sh*tty office PC has me so mad I could kick a kitten. Trust me when I saw how uncharacteristic this is of me.
- Excel Spreadsheet XML giving me fits. "Bad Value" is not a helpful error message. What made it bad?
- I made an $11,000 error in an excel spreadsheet.. How’s your day going? #ineedadrink.
- What’s more exciting than making an excel spreadsheet about fish skeletons at 11:07 at night?
- Hehe! Finished my Excel workbook that will help me win the backstage Lady GaGa tickets! It’ll predict video views based on trends
- i thought i had a foul mouth. students working on Excel project letting it fly.
- I want to go all Office Space on Microsoft Excel right now. I will literally pay LT not to make me fix this formatting. Literal cash money.
- Oh metrics, how I love thee. Spending the day making Excel sing with custom software. Lesson: IT Drop-outs can make GREAT marketers.
- I just wasted an hour of my life in an Excel spreadsheet before realizing I was given the wrong numbers. dammit!!!
- Sorry 2 say it, but I hate 2 b u, with that spreadsheet. I am seriously close to banning EXCEL in office, Ssheets get 2 large
- I just got freaking iChatted about putting ‘$1,000′ into an Excel spreadsheet. No joke. Because NOBODY ELSE CAN DO IT.
- Excel does charts. crap ones. you can dropshad text if you want but bugger having control over size, scale, spacing… MS FAIL
- why can’t i attach an Excel spreadsheet to a facebook message?!?!?!?!?
- My 2nd day in the job & the Excel spreadsheet I was working on all day crashed & burned. If #Windows7 was your idea, I hate you.
- Curious to know what it says about me that I’d rather open Excel & create a spreadsheet w/formulas than multiply & divide in my head?
- finsihed all my in class excel work…seriously SUCH a joke!!!! the text book doesn’t even tell you the most effcient way to do each task…
- Client 2 me "you good at charts in excel?" Me "um, 1st degree nerd-belt here. i use charts for lifting regimes" Client: "I’m not surprised"
- A Pivot Table cannot overlap another Pivot Table – why is this my problem Microsoft?
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Are fancy-dancy charts better or worse than professional looking charts? You should know the answer to that if you’re going to attract the ladies with your incredible Excel skills. But maybe the fashion designer who uses Excel will be impressed.
- I’d like to conclude now that Excel is idiot proof. Unfortunately, most of the people in my I.T. class are far beyond “idiot”.
- OK my current version of Excel has fewer features than my previous version. What’s with that eh Ballmer?
- Although my awesomeness was impacted when I tried to show him my spreadsheet & found that Excel had eaten every single piece of my data.
- Ok then, hot water tank sounds like my work pc trying to run excel, and the fridge is making Tardis like noises. Exterminate.
- I thought Excel was my biggest enemy… but then I met Salesforce.
- Ha me too. We always get questions about Excel. I’m like yeah um please hold.
- Tech Night is coming up this Thursday March 4 @ The Lewes Library!! We will be discussing MS Excel.. yeah I know.. I didn’t pick the topic..
- i always knew that, some day, i was going to somehow attract the ladies through my incredible excel skills. i think today may be that day.
- I’ve done a 200row excel before.
- My keyboard and I are NOT on good terms with Excel 2007. Just give me unlimited rows and I’ll take 2003 back. #FB
- Don’t you just hate it when you click the wrong thing in Excel and a mahooosive spreadsheet needs to recalculate
- I’m sure that this is all wrong, but I’m plopping it into an Excel spreadsheet and calling it done. WHATEVA!
- For those that think Google Spreadsheet is equiv to MS Excel. You need to learn Excel for more than just a table you could build in Word.
- “is that in access?” uh no – that’s an excel spreadsheet w/ filters & pivot tables. “oh, looks like access” #headdesk
- I work in Excel all day and when clients are using 2003 I want to break their fingers. Get with the times people.
- Fashion designer Eugenia Kim uses Microsoft Excel to design her collection. How does this work?!? http://bit.ly/9iusbN
- Microsoft Excel has gone rogue…completing my work tasks has become quite the endeavor!
- And?? If one more person tells me “Excel is broken – the formula doesn’t work!” I’m going to scream!
- You just don’t know how to use #Excel properly. Mostly that’s why people hate something. They can’t understand it!
- Are there any sites where I can find ‘fancy-dancy’ comparison chart templates for excel?
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Yes, Italian food can definitely ease the pain induced by Excel hell. Maybe it would help with that swampy wallowing homework feeling too!
- Looking at Excel toolbar, wondering how many years it will be until the Save icon is no longer a floppy disk. Haven’t use a floppy in years
- Fine. You win excel. I will calculate manually.
- Let’s see if I can finish faking survey results, make an excel spreadsheet, create the charts, and analyze them in the report – IN 2HOURS!!
- I am apparently the excel man at work…? Go figure… Yay I know how to do basic formulas and how make it look pretty…
- It’s official. I freakin’ hate Excel. I just spent the last two hours doing a spreadsheet and open it and guess what? BLANK. UUUGGGHHH
- Accidentally clicked view code on Excel and ended up in some mystery place. Scary stuff.
- It takes very little effort to experience Excel hell, particularly when a spreadsheet gets emailed.
- I don’t think I’ve ever changed my own oil, but I can write an Excel VLOOKUP function without using a wizard.
- Anyone else hate that Excel tries to read "@" as part of a formula? Boo, Microsoft!
- excel worksheets without color are painful to work with
- Italian food w/ my family 2nite…This might make up for how much I hate my Excel class. The Prof made some1 take a quiz in the hall…LAME
- On a similar note, would like an Excel function that begins with =AWESOME(
- Never let someone who has never used Excel set an address list for you. Every. word. in. a. separate. cell. You can imagine the chaos.
- I can now make colorful pie charts from Excel data!! It took me an hour to learn, but note that I’m an English major…
- my hubby once got me an advanced excel spreadsheet book for Xmas. He hasn’t lived it down was approx 15 years ago too!!!
- just got called king of the internal developed forecast model in Excel with tons of Macros at work…what a complement
- Accounting would be so much easier if he put the blank excel sheet online so we could follow along on our laptops!
- Excessive excel calculations has prompted brain to overheat, so kind colleague has switched on fan to ease my brow.
- Oh Excel. You make me feel like a very stupid hippo, slogging my way through the thicket of swampy wallowing homework. Squelch.
- Sure he can draw in excel, but can he put together a pivot table.
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Hooray! It’s March, and that means we made it through another February. Over the weekend, Excel users were working in bed, watching F1 pre-season stuff, and complaining to Microsoft. Oh, and there might have been a bit of drinking, if you can count Peach Schnapps.
And we did an Excel Word Search on the Contextures blog a while ago, so use that one if you’d rather not create your own from scratch.
- I love when financial aid forms provide a mere two lines to list info for parents’ other dependents. Mine: "See Attached Excel Spreadsheet."
- Another reason why I hate the Twilight saga is because its sales figures make any other figure insignificant. Ruins excel charts completely.
- Sorry kids auditioning tomorrow… please enjoy my crappy sign in sheets made with Excel.
- I just learned a new shortcut on Excel… Ctrl D- duplicates the line above it! Awesome!
- Dear Mac Excel, we tried hard to make it work, but your dysfunction has driven me back into the arms of Win Excel.. and it just feels right!
- Another productive day at robotics today. I learned a lot about how powerful Excel can be while trying to improve our tank drive code!
- Professor, the excel assign. is too difficult. Please to be making it where students who are not engineer majors can pass your class. KThx.
- Time to put the kettle on. I’ve answered emails, complained to Microsoft about lack of Print Prev icon on Excel 2008 for Mac, so coffee now.
- Using m&ms 4th grade excel spreadsheet style in my Saturday class. Yeah, be jealous. http://twitpic.com/15ntia
- working on building excel charts for my son & nieces science fair project "Crowded Crops"
- Peach schnapps and excel spreadsheet work in the bar
- i even used some excel to create a word search for my work placement! feeling very proud of myself!
- Jay just tried to get me to do some excel spreadsheet for his fantasy baseball…bahahahahahaha! Silly man. Not happening.
- I have time to tell you that I am working with excel while my computer processes the "16" I just entered into a cell.
- Oh, good. A coworker once told me he planned to work on an Excel spreadsheet while watching SpongeBob with his kids.
- Spent 3 hours tonight creating an epic Excel spreadsheet for 2010 media buy. Forgot how much fun numbers can be! #workshifting
- I’m finally giving up on Excel’s #RefEdit controls. ~5-10% of my customers have RefEdit issues. Sometimes solved by updates, not always.
- Trying to single out an appropriate forum to ask developers of MS Excel 2007 for help. The audacity! Just who do I think I am?!
- So it’s over guys. Which means the maths can begin. Who’s really fastest? Thank God for Excel… #F1
- Hate to say it but in 1hr in Excel on laptop in bed, I’ve got more done than in a week at desk at work. #nothowit’smeanttobe
- Other people’s games have a boss screen that looks like an Excel spreadsheet. My game IS an Excel spreadsheet.
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