Excel Twitters 20090117 – Excel Theatre Blog

In this week’s Excel Twitters we learn about fidelity, whiteboards, dads and Slippery Pete. I also discovered that VBA also means “Virtual Bankruptcy Assistant”, whatever that is. It was a long, cold week, but I didn’t see any tweets about people burning their Excel files to stay warm during Thursday night’s lengthy power outage in Toronto.

And yes, Gordon Moar, I included your tweet, but only after I did a little background check. 😉 It looks like this tweet isn’t the first thing you’ve had published. Do you remember your letter to Electron User in January 1988? Well, I hope that was you! If not, let me know, and I’ll fire my research staff.

A Minor Loss

Why are the insert and delete buttons next to each other in excel?
I wish Steve Ballmer could sit right next to me and watch his software at work. Maybe he would want to punch Excel too.
really excel, what does “Minor loss of fidelity” mean? does it mean you were cheating on me with other users?
I find my excel warning message about a “minor loss of fidelity” strangely heartening. It’s, you know, a minor loss. It still loves me.

Dear Dad

Just got done conducting a 5 minute crash course in Microsoft Excel with my dad. Man, that’s an up hill battle 😉
Dad just called me to say, “I can’t see anything on your website. But maybe because that’s I have Excel 2003.” Wow, I had no response.

I Am Growing Up!

Things Excel is not: Application platform, database, fast, 2nd coming of Christ, application platform, image container, Wine-friendly, open.
Holy cow, I just made a Budget in Excel! I am growing up!
Working on our new CRM system called “Excel”. An upgrade from our existing system called “Whiteboard”.

It’s a Nightmare

Just saw comment on forum somewhere: “95% of my programming is in Excel using VBA.” Poor sod. Can’t the UN pass a resolution or something?
Writing VBA macro to automate 6 hr process. Why hasn’t my predecessor done this? 6 hours he doesn’t have to do anything else, me thinks.
I just can’t believe, honestly, that anyone can critique VBA. To some, it’s a nightmare, to me it’s a living
Realising that learning VBA for Excel may be the best investment of time I ever made. (From someone who hates everything Microsoft.)
VBA doesn’t read your mind, it just messes with it an awful lot
“if you need macros in Excel, you should be using Access” I realize that’s generalized for training, but still completely a lie

Awesome Graphs…For Dummies

in 07, I mostly used Access & Excel, ribbon UI is not that great, but I find it easier to program in 07 than 03.
Dear sweet god in heaven. I love excel 2007 and how awesome it is to deal with graphs.
Excel 2007 feels like Excel for Dummies.

It’s a Mental Game

Working on Excel spreadsheets is a tad easier if I imagine I’m doing so in the Caribbean – go ahead…try it!
I like changing my name in Office 2007 so people think the page is open by someone else. Today, Excel documents are open by “Slippery Pete”.
I’m going to be an excel-stentialist.
Excel tweets keep Debra amused. Wonder if this will make the list?
Great blues songs about working in Excel have yet to be written. . . .
staring at a pinata, a whiteboard, and an excel spreadsheet.