The reformatting error in the infamous Barclays Excel worksheet was the topic of several Twitters this week. There were also suggestions for improving Excel, grumbles, bragging, unusual uses and a couple of interesting quotes.
Dear Excel
- My biggest Excel pet peeve is when the default colors are used in charts.
- Never have understood why Excel defaults to such lilliputian-sized text.
- Dear Excel – Remember that time I told you to stop assuming everything I type is a hyperlink? I meant it.
- Why does Excel have “Transpose” but not “Flip” in the paste menu?
I’m a Genius
- I am an Excel formula genius! Not that its a good thing, just say’n.
- Buckling down and figuring out pivot tables. Never wanted to be an Excel monkey, but I can see how theseare going to be useful.
- On the bus discussing Excel perf with excel pgm. Good stuff in the works.
- getting intimate with microsoft excel. this relationship is moving a little too fast for my taste.
- Just helped the accounting department save about 4-6 hours of work by showing them VLookup in Excel. What a powerful tool.
- is there anything better than excel? if pivot tables were a woman I would marry her.
Grrrr!
- aaaaa I’ve found the end of excel .. column IV … the earth is flat
- Excel error leaves Barclays with more Lehman assets than it bargained for
- my cunning plan to use Excel to document these business rules seems foiled by the fact it is turning my text columns into hashes, grrrr!
What We’re Doing
- building an extremely complex calendar roster in excel for upload into SAP
- received in email: excel spreadsheet of every book bf has checked out of the library since 2005. Yes, this is how librarians date.
- i didn’t know i needed to be a financial wizard to be pastor. seminarians: learn excel. now.
- is trying hard to find an elegant solution to this damned Excel writing library
- Just recorded my first-ever Excel macro for a task I repeat every week in tracking my daily vitality and effectiveness.
Quotes
- “Teaching Excel is not the same as teaching business.” – Jeffrey Zeldman
- “Oh the C, oh the C is the gradh geal mo croide, long may it stand between Excel and me” back to that C problem that bested me yest. 🙁
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P.S. Visit the Contextures website for help with an Excel VLOOKUP formula
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