Excel Twitters 20091207

People love pivot tables, with the exception of a few, including the person who posted the first tweet shown below. The rest of us are glowing, while living the easy life.

A Good Pivot Table

• Excel and pivot tables were created by someone with a deep-rooted hatred for people.
• It’s been three days, and I’m still glowing because people called my pivot table beautiful and professional. #dorktastic
• The only thing missing from my day is a good pivot table. Fingers crossed.
• Showing people pivot tables on excel is so fun. Seriously. The joy they get when they realize how easy life can be now is gratifying.
• is becoming a pivot table expert in preparations for Monday.

Compulsive Savers

• No freaking way to undo beyond a save in Excel??? Hating Microsoft software with a passion. Begging for Numbers.
• Remind me again.Why does Excel say sure you want to close without saving. Oh yeah, it’s so I can say no and loose all the work ive done
• Ugh. Excel just crashed 30 min worth of work…good thing I’m a compulsive saver or it could have been more…

Question of the Day

• Ever get the feeling that life’s just one big excel spreadsheet after another?

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P.S. If you want to save your Excel file with VBA, try the code in Jon Peltier’s article today: Robust VBA Save-As Technique

Or, follow Jon’s advice in the comments below:  “If you want to autosave your files to prevent losing too much data in case of a crash, don’t use the built-in autosave feature. Instead use Jan Karel Pieterse’s AutoSafe utility. It is much friendlier, and it doesn’t overwrite the current file, it instead saves a copy. AutoSafe it about the 4th item on this page: http://www.jkp-ads.com/download.asp

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