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Excel Twitter 20100729

Do you think the people from the first two tweets work in the same office?

  • not really feelin this work thing today. who on twitter tryna see me in EXCEL Battleship?!?! lol.
  • Why is it that I always ends up doing other peoples Excel work. :(
  • So you have to colour-code a spreadsheet. What’s the first colour you go for? … That’s right. Bubble gum pink.
  • I can pivot-table 65k lines of data in my mac with 5 key strokes, this PC I couldnt even find the "Save As".
  • Making Excel spreadsheets look pretty and making sure formulas work properly since this morning.
  • #overheard "Dude, Excel ROCKS! I love it you can do so much with the filters". // HA! Office nerd.
  • Well, that spreadsheet destroyed the part of my brain I wanted to hold on to….
  • Aah, my eyes! This spreadsheet colouring seems to be the worst of the 1960s depicted via the medium of artificially coloured vomit
  • LOVE IT when I find an error in one excel-generated graph that causes me to have to redo 15 slides.
  • My coworker is talking to his spreadsheet and singing it songs. Sad what you have to do to make Excel work.
  • I wish there was a cross between Excel and Word. Excel spreadsheet but Word abilities within the cell… That would be sweet!
  • Literally, this is how a problem is explained that I’m needed to help with. "I can’t make it go ‘bzzzzz’ around the cell [in Excel]." #FML
  • my boss today: ‘so the client is wondering why his excel file doesn’t light up like a Christmas tree and do an automatic song and dance?’
  • Just overheard someone in the office refer to a spreadsheet as a "spreado". If I ever use that particular piece of posh slang, shoot me.
  • Trying to think of how to create a spreadsheet that will accomplish today’s tasks…I think excel is my adult security blanket.
  • I love waking up with a solution to a problem, knowing my subconscious has been working on it in my sleep. Today it was about a spreadsheet.
  • You’re teaching a 4-year-old to write code?"Well certainly I don’t want him out there, you know, learning Excel macros ON THE STREET!

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Excel Twitter 20100728

Wow, how big is that person’s monitor? I can only see 975 full cells on mine (at 100%), and my eyes are sore at the end of the day.

  • I think I just installed 100TB of microsoft products in order to be able to spend a couple of hours reviewing a spreadsheet.
  • @keithlaw Baseball is played on a field, not a spreadsheet, Keith. <== my impression of a dinosaur
  • excel, you are killiing meee!!! When I say that I don’t want borders on the chart, that doens’t mean you can leave a bottom border!!!!!!
  • Note to self: when calculations within program take massive amounts of time, blame MS Excel interop first and foremost
  • After making fun of colleague’s lack of skill w/Excel, the file he sends me on last day of work is corrupted. He gets the last laugh.
  • my new monitor allows me to see 2,470 cells in Excel at once.. spreadsheet heaven..
  • Then the most common thing heard is "Dave, you know computers. Can you help me with this – I dunno how to use excel"
  • So the database I’ve spent the whole day working on was actually meant to be a spreadsheet. Copy and paste, my life is in your hands
  • And now the accounts. Excel hates me more than the dog does, so this should be…fun. *Headdesk!*
  • I know a state agency that keeps their entire database in an excel spreadsheet backed up on a flash drive. #stuffofnightmares
  • Excel 2007 is stupid!!! I want my chart wizard back!
  • I love Excel/Spreadsheets it’s just like Lego (my childhood favorite) because I’m a spreadsheet monkey & can build anything in Excel! #fb
  • he’s not joking about the spreadsheet. 100% nerd. But 100% AWESOME!!
  • definitely couldn’t do a job that normally involves this much excel spreadsheet action

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Excel Twitter 20100727

Uh-oh! I use Excel for work, and for leisure, and I think pivot tables are cool. Maybe it’s time for a nap.

  • It is absolutely inexcusable when someone makes an error on an important Excel spreadsheet. Unless, of course, that someone is me… ;-)
  • The main problem with making coffee with Excel is that the fluid dynamic simulation takes up too many CPU cycles.
  • I am about to start to swearing … Going to take my nicely formatted excel spreadsheet and bugger it up in google docs so we can share it
  • so i spend the day working out what was wrong with my spreadsheet & now that i’ve got it i’ve a whole new set of problems. haha! grrrreat.
  • I say I hate numbers but then I start bashing them into excel & what they tell me is *so* empowering that I realise that I really LOVE them.
  • Wow. I just downloaded the Afghan war on excel, blow by blow. Yes, a spreadsheet. http://bit.ly/aVVDDZ (Via Guardian) It’s a Groundswell
  • Someone described business school to me as making charts in Excel and presenting them. Thought that was pretty funny.
  • Think this may officially be the most absurd spreadsheet I’ve ever written, and it’s still going to get worse. It’s bloody awesome though!
  • excel 2007 pie of pie charts are the bane of my existence right now
  • They finally gave me Excel 2007 at work. I guess I’ll get 2010 in 3 years?
  • Excel for work, Excel for leisure. I wonder where I am heading.
  • Honestly is minor math and excel work really that difficult? I’m starting to think for some people it is.
  • billing reports = evil on a spreadsheet ugh
  • I should just not think about the lottery. Whenever I do, I somehow end up making a spreadsheet.
  • Was going to start updating an investments spreadsheet, but figure a nap is really a better use of my time.
  • I never wanted to be the type of person that looked at a pivot table off a giant data cube and said ‘cooool!’

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Excel Twitter 20100726

Maybe it’s the 11-year-old who’s taking his time to finish that spreadsheet. If it’s someone else, I hope the boss doesn’t read Twitter!

  • taking my time doing this Excel spreadsheet for my boss. i coulda finished it in 5mins, but ill give it to her in 30 *shrugs*
  • Showed 11yr old step-son how to use Excel. He’s been making a spreadsheet of ATL restaurants for us. #childlabor
  • we named excel @ work Lecxe, like a fancy Lexi. & we tell the excel go to guy that Lecxe is a bitch when it something doesnt work right.
  • Excel question: Anyone know how to make excel dispense beer? That would be really helpful about now.
  • life decisions in excel spreadsheet format. My world’s have collided!
  • Time to build a stronger relationship w/ excel spreadsheet. I can smell monday already
  • the only words I like in conjunction with ‘spread’ are ‘chocolate’ and ‘bed’… none of this ‘sheet’ business. Excel confuses me!
  • Rule #1 – the critically important Excel spreadsheet you are looking for on you computer will never be found, ever; it’s lost, forever dude
  • Examining the hidden Excel data in a telco’s PPT chart, I found far more data than they intended to release. If only I could read Russian.
  • was spending a perfectly wasteful saturday. At some point a blank spreadsheet got involved, now its 14Mb and i have a stiff neck. damn!
  • Fighting the urge to bypass Excel and make pretty charts in Illustrator :)
  • Time to make a sexy spreadsheet about how much money college loans will cost me. Spoiler: Too much.
  • It might just be me, patsy cline, and this very large excel file for the rest of the night.
  • I would look at your spreadsheet but have just discovered I dont have excel
  • You know you work a lot in Excel when you have a Book5 and a Book100 open simultaneously.
  • A summary pivot table?! There goes my weekend.

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Excel Twitter 20100724

MacGyver it into Excel. I like that, and we’ve probably all done it, without knowing what to call it!

  • Fixed the first Excel problem of the day – a nested IF that the user claimed was misbehaving.
  • No matter how hard I look at this spreadsheet, the numbers aren’t going to change. **sighs**
  • How could I have not written down what the colors on my spreadsheet mean? 6 months later and I can’t remember. #fail
  • Constructing an excel spreadsheet of what i want to see at Edinburgh next month. Makes it look like i’m doing work
  • I Win T Shirt –>>"I love Macros” t-shirts" ; ) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/excel/
  • you can call me Chart Master: Keeper of Excel.
  • Awwww I’ve just discovered a flaw in my mega spreadsheet, after I’ve made multiple copies for different scenarios…. sigh….
  • right…..this spreadsheet won’t build itself you know………….which is a shame cause my VBA macro is called "self_building_spreadsheet"
  • Things I really need to work on: VBA in Excel and using API’s – both for reporting and data manipulation… so much, so little time.. :|
  • Is the such a thing as Excelitis. An aversion to Excel which prevents you going to work if it uses Excel?
  • I still prefer not to handle large amounts of data in Excel, but I have to grudgingly admit that pivot tables do lessen the pain.
  • Just worked out I spend R1200 more than I earn EVERY month. Filled it all out on a spreadsheet and am STILL confused as to how it happens.
  • Yeah a little bit. That would be great. I could try to Macgyver it into Excel. Hopefully it will work :)
  • I’m pretty sure a spreadsheet just wrecked my day.
  • Excel ’03 punishes me for saving often by destroying my undo history.

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Excel Twitter 20100723

Have you ever been distracted from Excel by your fried bee hoon? No, it’s not caused by sitting on a deck chair that’s been baking in the sun, when you take your laptop outside to work.

  • I click on an internal webpage link on who to contact in another department… and it DOWNLOADS AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET. Really? REALLY?! #FAIL
  • Starting to think setting off code to double loop 300k cells in Excel was a bad idea on my netbook (sips coffee)
  • Typing gym workouts into an Excel document. My holidays from work are WILD so far.
  • My fried beehoon is distracting me from my excel :<
  • i am now known as the excel wizard, this is good and bad, awesome to be known for something sucks cause i now get more work haha
  • Why does no one go on dragons den with an excel spreadsheet and a set of financial projections.
  • when they ask me to do an Excel spreadsheet at work I be thinkin you want a GOOD one or like just an informative one??
  • Still working. Just wondering whether to re-do the spreadsheet I accidently didn’t save earlier today or pack up for the evening.
  • Oh yes, I also screwed up explaining how pivot tables work. I hope they don’t think I was exaggerating my Excel expertise.
  • New computer monitor at work. I can now see all of columns from A to Z in excel without scrolling. Today is a special day.
  • Does being given more Excel spreadsheet tasks mean you are moving up in an organization? #doom
  • Is it too geeky to use a spreadsheet to choose a diamond ring to propose?
  • Me thinks me need another coffee, got some excel vba code to try to sort written by someone else!!!!

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Excel Twitter 20100722

A pie chart wrapped in a donut chart? Is that the Excel version of a KFC Double Down?

  • Person says: "reformat" I think: "computers. reinstall OS." Coworker thinks: "Excel spreadsheet. Move data round." #perspective
  • Everyone at my workplace is crazy for Excel & spreadsheets. Everyone.
  • today I learnt how to do pivot tables in Excel. what have I become
  • I just looked up how to use division in an Excel cell. I now feel completely stupid.
  • I just want everyone to know I got my ass handed to me by a excel spreadsheet! I forgot so much in 10 years I’d like to blame booze and time
  • long day superceded by fountain show at the bellagio, and potentially le cirque? worse places to wrangle with excel i suppose.
  • Just spent pretty much the entire day cleaning a huge, messy spreadsheet for data upload.. Just been emailed a ‘new’ version to use. *anger*
  • my parents made a spreadsheet n all of it is adding in the thousands smh.. N it’s mainly food
  • Excel help: How do I make a pie chart with a donut chart around it showing subdivisions within each slice?
  • I’m going to have to climb back into the wrong end of an Excel spreadsheet again soon. I don’t think there is a right end.
  • Plus side of my work desktop hosing today. Finally got rid of a stupid excel bug that’s plagued me for the past 4 years #repairedbyaccident
  • This budget spreadsheet is kicking my ass. Note to self: comprehend math better.
  • There are people in this old world who think in spreadsheet. Sadly, I’m not one.

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Excel Twitter 20100721

Yelling, cursing, and True Blood. That’s how we work with Excel — sorry Mom.

  • La Boss: Here is disc with 10,000 records of data. Give it to me in a spreadsheet. Me: Wuuuuuuuuhhhh.
  • Be still my beating chart. It seems that since my PhD I have *entirely* forgotten how to draw a graph in Excel. #headhurty
  • you know what’s wrong with our relationship? Check my excel spreadsheet. -anonymous
  • If MS Excel is the most popular and powerful spreadsheet software in the world then why is it so counter intuitive? Answers on a postcard.
  • Workin on this budgeting spreadsheet for this Grad class.. I had no clue I was spending this much money.. smh, sorry Mom
  • friend of mine has a spreadsheet with every concert he’s ever been to. impressive. i can’t even remember what i saw last night.
  • have shouted and problem has progressed, excel now working but still no mail! Will shout some more!
  • One hour’s worth of Microsoft Excel work swirling down the "Microsoft Excel (not responding)" drain. Save first, apply fancy format later.
  • I love cursing Excel for not working correctly only to find that I was the one doing it wrong. #usererror
  • My computer in work is gettin update from excel 03 to 07, don’t like it, it’s hard to use! I like simple! SIMPLE I SAY!!
  • I need to pick the brains of a spreadsheet guru (this makes me sound like a creepy stalker, argh!)
  • True Blood and Excel Spreadsheets. I just love preparing for meetings.
  • Someone please teach me how to work Microsoft excel. Please?
  • I’m delighted – small miracles but I just created an Excel Formula which will save me about 1 day of work! 1hr to create! Yes!
  • Just created an Excel file that will save 20 people 2+ hours / month. My work here is done!
  • Tomorrow involves reverse engineering a rather archaic excel spreadsheet; much fun to be had.
  • I love creating simple games in Excel that I can share with co-workers. Just don’t tell my boss.

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Excel Twitter 20100720

Spreadsheet coma? I’ve had that. Usually caused by ingesting large quantities of Excel.

  • My mouse wheel doesn’t work in Excel. My job duties are primarily concerned w/ data analysis. No witty hashtag; it’d simply be expletives.
  • Excel VBA is my paintbrush, these General Ledger spreadsheets are my canvas, and Kaskade is my muse. Time for the artist to work…
  • yup, at Google almost all projects are managed with just a Google spreadsheet. ;)
  • My husband is the awesomest person ever. And I’m not just saying that b/c I exploited his love of Excel for my own personal project. #fb
  • I declare the Pivot Table to be the most awesome thing EVER.
  • Cannot internet today. I haz a spreadsheet coma. #Mondays
  • I LOVE lists; just made an Excel spreadsheet w/ everything needed for camping for the week, & it’s all color coded. My #OCD at it’s finest!
  • nothing like a wendy’s spicy chicken sandwich to counter a long day of spreadsheet editing.
  • I keep a spreadsheet of the number of days w/out smoking. Sometimes not wanting to mess that up is the only thing that saves me.
  • I just calculated that it takes 142000 ants to cover 1 km but excel was naughty and gave me wrong calculations it seems. :)
  • I appear to have a one-track mind today. This is what Spreadsheets do to me. Don’t let Excel happen to you… or someone you love #justsayno
  • I hope I didn’t look stupid lying my ass off about my excel skills…only to find out I had to take a skill assessment test >.<
  • The shorter route to "Paste as a value" in Excel 2010 is the best thing in Office 2010 so far!!!
  • I wish I could turn this excel workbook into a glass plate and smash it against the wall
  • #Excel 2007 file size: 63 MB. Same file saved as csv file? 8 MB. Gotta love Excels efficiency and space saving there.
  • Gantt Charts look sexier when created in MS Excel. Gantt Chart in MS Project is like vermiform appendix in human body – useless!
  • My kids leave in 48 hours for vacation. I’m dealing with this by ingesting large quantities of microsoft excel.
  • I hate spreadsheets and have one to do now. You’re either a spreadsheet kind of person or not and I’m soooo not.
  • Have spent most of my day making a spreadsheet of HR pages on intranet. Most of which are out of date or irrelevant.

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Excel Twitter 20100719

Organization or procrastination? Who hasn’t asked that question?

  • Boo, lost my stolen wifi at work. Looks like its excel spreadsheet time for me. #needinternetnow
  • Hubby brought home fazolis. To bribe me to double check an accounting spreadsheet for him. Still way easier than cooking.
  • I either need someone to come over and decode this spreadsheet for me… or I need more coffee. *crickets* Ok… more coffee it is then. BRB
  • If you just sit at work staring at a spreadsheet, doing nothing, no one will question what youre doing. This is me for the nxt 3 hours.
  • Just wasted a whole tree printing an excel workbook that wasn’t formatted properly :(
  • OpenHeatMap "Turn your spreadsheet into a map" http://www.openheatmap.com/
  • Playing Russian roulette with MS Excel. How long to wait for it to respond before it shreds my afternoon’s work (again)?
  • Sent an email back to legal: I need help understanding this excel spreadsheet in order to meet your deadline. Monday will be interesting!
  • Sometimes fixing a complex Excel spreadsheet is like de-bugging code – one damn little ‘ throws everything off….
  • coffee, powerpoint, spreadsheet, repeat.
  • I’m going cross eyed from staring at excel sheets and endless numbers. How do people work in auditing?
  • Computer is worse than foreign language. i guess so . I don’t need Excel to live. just for work. or i might be needless 4 me ever
  • All right, I’m making an Excel spreadsheet for all my projects. One for editing, one for writing. Organization or procrastinating?

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