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Excel Twitter 20101109

Debra — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:02:00 +0000

You’ve probably had some less than ideal jobs, but were you ever locked in a closet to work on Excel? Now that’s an exercise in torture!

Such a serious work environment. I walked by every laptop in there and saw nothing but emails and excel sheets.
Have got a full on spreadsheet going for Xmas presents and budget. It will all go out of the window by the time I come to buy any of it
there are eight reasons on #WrongDiagnosis.com for numb buttocks. all you need to do is close #Excel and get up for crying out Pete’s sake!
Do people actually use Excel to make charts & graphs? It’s like an exercise in torture.
Stupid box & whisker plots, why don’t want use hand draw so much faster & easier, excel so chimalogy …
I think I love Excel too much. Have spent morning creating formulae to do things it would be quicker to do manually, but less fun.
I love Excel functions. No need to look through 10 numbers for a max or min. Can I look through 10 numbers? Yes. But I don’t have to.
boredom resulted in finding the bottom right corner of the excel spreadsheet… cell XFD1048576 this is what uni assignments lead to…
yikes, I once had a dream that I lived in an Excel spreadsheet. Thanks for reminding me! #nightmare
Just discovered an excel function which can randomly pick my countries for me. My life is literally complete. I love you excel. I am a geek.
I love how every time i explain my microsoft excel problem to someone, they shut up and are just as confused as me.
Ah Excel, my one true love…
i don’t get to do fun things. they just lock me in a closet to work on excel all day :\
Seems like my version of Excel has become self aware…
The guy sitting in front of me at the coffeeshop is really good at making Excel charts and is listening to James Brown’s "The Boss."
I password protected my Christmas spreadsheet last year & now can’t remember what the damn thing is! Anyone know how to hack Excel?
Currently melting my head with MS Excel formulas, they better work now.
Task based UI is what differentiates a decent application from a spreadsheet (amongst other factors)

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Excel Twitter 20100701

Debra — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:01:00 +0000

Happy Canada Day! Not too many Excel related tweets yesterday, so I guess everyone is out celebrating.

more work in excel 2010. ribbon is starting to grow on me. downgraded from eye cancel to conjunctivitis. the rest of program is very spiffy
Really great way to add a quick comparison chart to a worksheet seen on techrepublic blog >>http://bit.ly/bQI9fb #Excel
Love excel for those things. It’s how I make estimates for custom stationery.
an afternoon of brand finance charts!! How does this happen, I only actually wanted to be the designer at the start!! Excel here I come! xx
You can link Work Items in TFS to Excel! Great, now you have 2 problems. You can also use SharePoint for project management! 3 problems!
#Apple is looking for an Antenna Engineer, problem solving skills and excel required http://bit.ly/bWpxv4 #Fail
I wanted to do chart from excel injury stats & team told me to back off – they were doing the charts – ownership/engagement!
Hey, any excel wizards out there wanna help me with a nasty problem?
Russian spy ring: details of the allegations, as a spreadsheet http://bit.ly/bq0nS0
Have you seen this town map laid out in Excel? http://cartastrophe.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-town-spreadsheet/
The demand for my Excel work comes in spurts. This week is a big one.
having an Excel spreadsheet breakdown today. New version v old version compatability issues. Fed up I need my own personal IT guy
Today Excel and Matlab didn’t want me to do any work. So I didn’t.

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Excel Twitters 20100219

Debra — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:02:00 +0000

Was your Excel day full of bathroom colours, drab charts, angry fruit salad and stapler fights, like these tweeters? Maybe your day was better, with fabulous pivot tables and formula problems solved. Undo can save the day too, if you remember to use it in time, and it would be nice to hear some cheering occasionally!

Great story of one job seeker who, with the help of 100 contacts (and Excel), found his next job http://bit.ly/aKjE7g
of course, it could also be the metalcore music that’s making me angry, but it’s probably excel
That’s nothing. I had a friend that had a website built using Microsoft Excel!
Spent the day fighing w/ the world’s worst stapler & Excel software that just doesn’t wanna work. #mysuperglamorousfashioninternlife
Typical: clicking Excel 2007 ribbon button "View Side by Side" brings the sheets up over/under. #msfail #fail
showed me how to make graphs in Excel last night. Am now making line graphs for every possible collection of data I can think of.
Definitely just lied to this lady and told her I knew how to use Access & Excel :/ Who wants to volunteer to teach me in less than 48hrs??
At least Excel 2007/8 ditched the "1970′s bathroom" color scheme for the graphs…
I wish Excel graphs were sexy. They are so drab and dismal. How can I impress someone with great data when it looks so darn glum?
Spreadsheet comp: ALL suck. Excel wins (on features, not on UX). OO.org calc: 2nd (best pivot tables), Numbers.App: 4th out of 3.
Can Excel sreadsheets become self aware? I swear this one spreadsheet is fighting me and building upon itself, secret code in the background
Basic spreadsheet concept is sound, but interaction model dates back to 1980s. Throw in a few MS quirks, and you have Excel.
Figured out a formula in Excel that accomplishes hours of work in one keystroke. Yay for the powa of Excel!
Spent way too long trying to write a certain function in Excel…finally settled on a work around. It feels like cheating.
Remember the days when you couldn’t "Undo" an error in Excel or Lotus? Man, I just would have lost about 5 days worth of work….whew!
Took me ONE HOUR just to figure out how to put my data in Excel so that a chart would look right. I have a PhD, people. ARG.
I have mastered the clustered-stacked column chart. What you got now, Excel?
Excel, you suck. Instead of offering a workaround for Gantt charts, why don’t you allow users to make a Gantt chart outright?
Just discovered Pivot Tables in Excel. Greatest. Things. Ever. How the hell did I miss these?
Looking for an Excel guru. Not someone who can whip up a formula. I’m talking heavy guru. Pivot tables, the works. DM me.
Excel: Put stuff in, use some functions, create "pretty" graphs, maybe some pivot tables, save, have coffee. What’s to know?
I get odd looks for my pastels. Excel’s standard colors are butt ugly. I hate spreadsheets that look like angry fruit salad.
The Doors can make anything kind of trippy – even formatting an Excel worksheet. Thank you Jim Morrison.
Microsoft Excel needs encouraging Easter egg. Upon reaching the 1000th row of any worksheet, clapping and cheering sounds must play.
Finally cracked an excel formula problem I have been pondering for a year (I could have checked the manual, but that’s another story…)

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Excel Twitters 20100125

Debra — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:02:00 +0000

Bill Gates recently created a Twitter account, and attracted thousands of followers in a very short time. Some of those followers hope that he’ll help with their Excel problems. Maybe he can help with those features that don’t work exactly the way that we’d like.

Hello Bill Gates

@billgates Taking a class on Excel 2007 today. Please don’t update this for another year or so. I want to feel smart for a while
Hello @billgates welcome to Twitter, I love to read, I am a good person, will you buy me a KindleDX? I am also an Excel ninja & an MCSE+I
Hello @BillGates, word up? Hope you excel, this tweet has no power point to it.

Odd Features

Dear Microsoft, If a user wants to select cells from a row in one Excel doc and paste them to columns in another, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO.
love Excel but sometimes it is plain odd. Copy/Paste Special-Transpose is awesome (discovered today) but no Cut/Paste Special. Why?
looking forward to the day when excel will let me paste in UK phone numbers with a +44 without giving me an error message

Nonsensical Things

I have definitely found that Excel is worthless as a graphing program. Why do so many people still use it as one?
ya bro. im using excel. but the line chart come out funny.
To clarify: Few was talking about lots of nonsensical things you can do in Excel etc, he’s not forcing everybody to do the same exact chart.
Just downloaded some fancy new Excel thing so I can get some GRAPHS going, oh yeah.

Excel Sacrifice

the Excel gods are hatin’ on me this morning. maybe I should do a spreadsheet dance? or a burnt offering of server capacity?

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P.S. For more information on Excel Charts, please see Jon Peltier’s Excel Chart Tutorials and Chart Utilities.
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Excel Twitters 20100120

Debra — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:02:00 +0000

Excel helps you stay organized, and you can even help other people with their stuff. Just be careful that you don’t lose everything that you entered. Your wedding could be ruined!

And if you’re trying to make a timeline in Excel there are instructions here for an Excel Gantt Chart.

Excel Time

Design an excel that can enter tasks, autocalculate dependencies, start/finish times, and make a gantt chart You mean MS Project? "No!"
After looking at a lot of different time tracking methods, I’ve been told I have to use an excel spreadsheet. sigh.
I still can not believe I went for so many years without a timeline excel spreadsheet. I access it more than my internetz
one of my timesheet entries at work today: "explaining how to open a file in excel".

Wedding Plans

Excel has fooked up my spreadsheet & I’ve lost all my fecking addresses so wedding thank yous are not going to well.
I have surprised myself today with excellent excel skills. Best spreadsheet ever!! Wedding organisation is SO important…
Decided to work on a guest list for the wedding. I am an Excel wannabe. I lost everything. All well. Guess no one is invited.

Clean and Organized

I color-coded some rows in an Excel spreadsheet to let me know their status. The problem? I forget which color means which status… #fb
oh yeah! i love how my data looks at pivot table. so clean and organized! finally can leave office and start my weekend in peace
I was just informed that bc I’m an organized sort of person its my job to make pretty excel charts 4 the accountant of all our biz expenses

Excel Tip of the Day

Whenever you want to procrastinate on a big project, open an Excel worksheet. That’ll hold you for two hours at least.

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Excel Twitters 20100105

Debra — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:01:00 +0000

It’s pretty cold here this week, so that Palm Springs Film Festival sure sounds tempting. But I’ll probably just stay inside and watch The Simpsons. But wherever I am, I definitely won’t be smoking!

What We’re Watching

curling up in bed attempting to finish up these excel documents…$10 says I lose interest in the next 30mins and watch The Simpsons instead
yeah, we are going to have to talk about this addiction to excel. I think there is a show on TLC about it…
The post where I spend too much time mixing my love of Excel with that of the Palm Springs Film Festival – http://j.mp/8I51qu – #PSIFF
I’m going to make a documentary called Gihm doing work. It will be in the fashion of ‘Kobe Doin Work’ but Excel, not basketball.

Smoking Is Bad

Now on to reviewing lesson plan for Excel class. I’m smokin’! Not really. Smoking is bad for you. I meant that metaphorically. Or something.
I don’t understand why I can’t light one up at work –I mean I would focus more on my damn excel sheets

Your Tax Dollars

our entire office was taught how to use the Sort function in Excel today. I kid you not. your tax dollars at work!
Ugggh, not happy, have to redo all my Excel sheets and invoices for the return to the old VAT rate. What a waste of time. Thanks Government!

Who Chose the Defaults?

thanks It is really frustrating to try and use excel for something it wasn’t designed for (charts, for instance )
New Excel charts look much prettier than old ones, WAAY LESS INTUITIVE TO PUT TOGETHER
Why can’t I find black & white texture options in Excel 2007 charts anymore? Hasn’t anyone at Microsoft ever had to write a dissertation?
We need to find the person who chose the defaults for Excel charts. And have a discussion with them.Possibly involving baseball bats.

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P.S. If you’re trying to create a fill pattern in Excel 2007 charts, download Andy Pope’s free Pattern Fill Add-in.

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Excel Twitters 20091210

Debra — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:02:00 +0000

Some people use Excel for simple things, like a shopping list, or a bit of homework. Other people are more ambitious, and spend their days analyzing data. It’s funny though – the shopping list people seem happier than the analysts.

But either of those activities is better than helping your dad with his Excel problems. Unless, of course, your dad is a data analyst.

Analyze This

Dear MS Excel, please play nice with MATLAB, I need you two for the data-analyzings!
boycotting Que Publishing…1 of their books suggest to get data OUT of a database, IN to Excel so it is "easier" to analyze – Idiots!
Has anyone used totaltesting.com or other remote excel skills test? I want to screen analysts for advanced excel skills. Thx.
Arg. Stupid Macs not being able to do histograms in Excel. I’m trying to analysis the last 22,000 songs played on my favorite radio station
anyone know how to use the data analysis tools in excel? Started my statistical reasoning in psychology class today.
Going to be doing some trend analysis at work, I’m super nervous boss asked if I was pretty good with excel and bought my comp a license

Dear Dad

Just given 50-year-old butcher dad first excel lesson.Told him how lucky he is being taught by a SQL coder.He just stared at me
I just had a lesson from my Dad in credit cards and fancy excel tricks. Nice.
another call from my dad wanting me to fix something in excel over the phone
Creating a great Excel spreadsheet – another adult pleasure my childhood self would have scoffed at. My dad, data analyst, would be proud.

Christmas With Excel

I can’t get a grasp of what gifts I have, what’s left to buy & who I’m leaving out accidentally. Clearly, it’s time for an Excel spreadsheet
Glad for the Christmas baking Excel spreadsheet I made a few years ago. Calculates a shopping list with quty of ingredients for me!
Yikes! My excel Christmas shopping document has disappeared! Poof!
I have a excel spreadsheet, dating back to 2003, with details of all xmas presents I have bought by person with price and where I got them!

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P.S. For help with histograms, see Jon Peltier’s page on Histograms in Microsoft Excel. And if you need help planning Christmas, you can download my free Excel Christmas Planner.

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Excel Twitters 20091127

Debra — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:18:00 +0000

It’s Black Friday in the USA. In Canada, our closest equivalent shopping experience is Boxing Day, on December 26th. We buy piles of half-priced Christmas cards, wrapping paper, and ornaments, then store them away. By next Christmas, we can’t remember where they are, so we go out and buy new stuff. Very economical.

Anyway, here are some Black Friday Excel tweets. They’re not all shopping related, but there are some black days when you’re working with Excel. And if you buy something from China today, be very careful when you open the invoice.

Leftover Pie

wow, I had to create an Excel spreadsheet just to figure out who was taking what leftovers home with them Good think I live and breath Excel
Trying to put together a chart in Excel…why can’t I remember how to do it, and why does it keep coming out as a square pie chart?!?
I’m making ugly pie charts in excel… I bet you wish you were me

Black Friday

STUPID. I opened an excel doc from China (invoice for my BJD) and ended up with malware that SPAMMED EVERY FRIEND ON FACEBOOK WITH CRAP.
there is nothing more frustrating than watching someone incompetent use Excel.
I get so nervous when Excel asks me if I want to save changes and I KNOW I didn’t touch it.. CHANGE it Microsoft!!! PLEASE!!
How many times do I have to have this conversation? Me: "you can’t find find your excel spreadsheet?Let me see. Ok,1st step:close out Word."

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P.S. For more information on Pie Charts, and better ways to show your data, read Jon Peltier’s article, Exploded Pie Chart Replacement.

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