Excel Twitters 20090103

Happy New Year! How many New Year’s resolutions involve an Excel spreadsheet? Or tattoos? Or both? And no, I’m not the person who resolves to learn Excel 97. Listening to laundry dry does sound like a nice way to ring in the new year though.

I’d never seen a report of the CSV file problem before, but it seems to be true. Maybe not a reason to stop using Excel, but interesting, at any rate. What could be the reason for that?

Update: In his comment, Dave explains, “The first two characters in the file (ID) is how excel (and other programs) know that you’re working on a SYLK file.” and provides a link to a Wikipedia article on SYLK files.

Happy Holidays

• is wondering why she attempted to work on an Excel spreadsheet during the holidays. Lawyers shouldn’t ever be allowed near Excel.
• if excel tells gives me one more bizzare message about margins not fitting page sizes i’m going to go mad
• Why is the Excel default to vertically align cells on the bottom? That’s enough on its own to warrant replacing the default book.
• Excel can’t handle CSV files that have ‘id’ as the first two letters! Yet another Microsoft gem!
• excel is killing me. slowly. and I suspect it’s having fun… –.-
• Is anybody good at excel? I’m trying to ad those thought bubbles that popup when you drag the mouse across a cell. What is that called?
• user was complaining that excel 2007 has ‘less functionality’ than prev vers. turns out no one @ his last job knew about the office button

Best Friends

• math hates me, but excel is my best friend. everything is super basic, but my boss can’t work excel, so i’m golden. for now…
• Me and Excel are still bonding. We may need couples counseling soon.
• Oh wow! I love the Undo button in excel, it just saved me on a report that I almost butchered!
• I can’t believe I forgot about pivot tables!! Those are Excel’s best feature!!

New Year’s Celebrations

• Behind but now extreme-resolution-keeping. On treadmill to LOSE WEIGHT NOW with keyboard to LEARN PIANO NOW and video to LEARN EXCEL 97 NOW.
• drinking black tea that’s too hot, plowing through these excel sheets, listening to my laundry dry, thinking about what i should do for NYE.
• Man, this year I’m going to meet my Savings goal. And find a way to get the tattoo. Step one done: set up Excel spread sheet.
• Working for the last time this year :-)) Rather large Excel spreadsheet sits open on my screen about half created. We track lots of numbers!
• It’s 50 mins to midnight and we’re drinking wine and slogging through accounts in excel

A Ridiculous Waste of Time

• Trying to write a simple introduction for a lesson on inserting an Excel chart into a PowerPoint Slide. No amount of coffee can help me.
• nasty excel doc with about 20 diff estate development appraisals (ok only 4) – it’s a ridiculous waste of time in my humble opinion!
• After that last twit, I decided to be productive at work and fire up excel. I am going to make a list of every beer I have ever had.
• How many of you are working with at least 1 person who you could replace with an Excel macro?