Excel Twitters 20080823
This week there were several twitters about Excel and music, but no consensus on the type of music that works best. There’s also a growing number of twitters comparing Excel to Apple’s Numbers. There are the usual battles with Excel, and even a few people talking about pivot tables. And apologies to all the cat lovers, but the last comment in today’s list is my favourite.
Excel is Music to My Ears
- Sitting down in front of Excel for an epic planning session, and “Don’t Stop Believing” from Journey comes up on random play. Good or bad?
- Listening to the Across the Universe soundtrack and entering this never-ending mailing list into excel. Such a pain.
- Listening to Josh Ritter’s “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” while I enter invoices into my budget tracking excel spreadsheets.
- absolutely loving Pandora.com today. really helps me on days like this where i am using Excel constantly. 🙂
- Listening to Metallica, grinning like an idiot, trying to keep my head and feet still – trying to block out mind numbing excel work!
Excel vs Numbers
- Excel is ugly and smart. Numbers is pretty and stupid.
- When I open an excel doc in Mac Numbers I feel like I’m personally giving Bill Gates the finger…and I like it.
- Maybe so, but when I couldn’t add a trendline in Numbers, I switched to Excel. One piece of crap or another.
- Excel = bane of my existence. I hate virtually everything about it. Unfortunately, there’s no suitably powerful alternative. Numbers = joke.
- Figured out how to individual schedules for teachers using iWork Numbers. Not flawless enough for picky me, but more handsome than Excel.
- Just spent an hour debugging a cell forumlae in Numbers. Remembering fondly the VB back-end to Excel.
The Zen of Pivot Tables
- Ever say to yourself, “nothing in my youth prepared me to create pivot tables in excel” or is it just me?
- One of my staff is getting very excited about pivot tables in Excel. She is quite odd
- the zen of msft excel – find peace in your pivot table
- Pivot tables? No accounting for taste 😛
- It’s 2.30am, I got a problems with Excel pivot tables, half a pack of crisps, it’s dark, and I’m wearing sunglasses.
Let the Battle Begin
- There’s a minor Excel/Windows Vista tantrum going on in the living room. I’m readying the tranquilizer darts.
- pushing enter on an excel doc at work all day maybe merits its own drinking game
- welcome to the dark side, where we use Microsoft Excel and see little white boxes in our sleep, like a less fun Tetris
- no matter whose Office suite you use 20 years from now, you’ll be using the same Excel formulas. They’re not going away; learn them
- Excel Charts makes me want to punch kittens. It is SO Monday.