Excel Twitters 20081018
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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