Excel Twitters 20080816

If nothing else, at least these weekly Twitters let you know that you’re not alone in your love/hate relationship with Excel. This week we look at the Good, the Bad, and the downright Ugly.

The Good

• I’d be happy if they’d switch to Excel. Anything’s better than ferreting the unanswered questions of out a pile of mangled Word docs
• they should release Excel on the Xbox.
• impressed with new found excel geekery but can’t help thinking it’d be easier to, you know, just do the calculations along the way on paper.
• Just discovered the “Format Painter” feature in Excel (and probably other Office apps). I like.
• You know I’ve been messing with Excel too much when the menu bar scrolls off the top of a webpage and I wonder why I can’t “freeze pane” it.
• I swear I learn more advanced features in Excel by preparing for fantasy football drafts than I do in my job. And I teach it!

The Bad

• learning the hard way that looping through every cell in an excel worksheet = not so good performance. 🙁
• Microsoft Excel–or as I call it, Microsoft’s “No, I didn’t want to get anything useful done today” Application.
• Dear Microsoft, do you really think that ‘undo’ in Mac Excel should undo me changing the zoom? Seriously?
• I wonder how many spreadsheets in the world have two extra, unused sheets thanks to Excel’s default (and what their carbon footprint is).
• The gods of formatting are angered. May my offering of a normalized excel chart with properly drawn lines be pleasing…
• i love excel like i love getting a tetanus shot

The Ugly

• Worked on taxes in excel for 3 hours. lost the whole thing. I’m cryin’ and heading to the fridge.
• Nursing head from 5h of excel budgeting on office big sceen. So not designed to be group activity.
• A hierarchical crap-ton of excel spreadsheets glued together with smb file sharing is, unfortunately, still not a RDBMS:)
• Just discovered a big mistake in the excel sheet has caused an assumption that we still have loads more money. Oh the pain.
• just updated a complex and possibly the ugliest excel in existence – mea culpa – i will attend to aesthetics when client agrees content 😉
• Just wasted my morning writing an Excel macro so idiots can do a job that we have 100 better ways of doing anyway. *seethes*

And my favourite comment of the week:

• Watching Excel churn like a Valium-saturated Amish buttermaker.