Excel Twitters 20090124 – Excel Theatre Blog

It was a week of change in the USA and there were many tweets about that, and some even mentioned Excel. It’s surprising how things are connected in the Twitterverse. Linda Dessau, one of the people whose Excel question I answered in Twitter last week, described the experience in her blog.

We’re almost a month into 2009, and we’re still trying to adjust to Excel 2007. And no, it’s not because we’re old, although struggling with that Ribbon might have prematurely aged us. Anyway, I have my shizz together. How about you?

Formula For Success

Licking my battle scars after today morning’s Excel session. One day my tombstone will read “Death by Circular Reference.”
Since I’m not smart enough to use a lot of real SQL I just use excel Vlookup function- It’s my best friend.
Writing some Excel formulas for hours control. Trying to eliminate overtime. Seems the biggest problem = people punching in even 1-min early
discovered ‘conditional sum wizard’ in MS excel. my life has been saved. at the expense of my eyes getting weakened though.

A Small Meltdown

Just witnessed a person doing calculations on his calculator and entering the results into an Excel sheet.
Up early working on an Excel file. Fun stuff. At least I am not shoveling snow.
There’s something therapeutic about inputing hundreds of lines of Excel spreadsheet. But there’s a lot more that’s horrible about it.
Sometimes I think I’m pretty good with Excel then my boss asks me to edit a Pivot Table and I have a small meltdown.
There is no such thing as saving too often when dealing with large Excel files
suffering from writers block (if you can call it that when using Excel)

Every Damn Thing

Asked for a logo. Got an Excel file.
when did engineering become all about excel spreadsheets?
I love that developers use Excel to send comments in lieu of a Word Doc. It says something about their world. Just not sure what.
Invoicing. The most fun a girl can have with an Excel spreadsheet and a free online PDF converter.
I just wish my law firm knew how/when to use Excel vs Access. They try to use Excel for every damn thing. Oy.
Excel as brain storming tool

Is It Just Me?

For the record, I *HATE* the Research Toolbar in Excel 2003. I want it gone. DEAD!
I’ve been using Office 2007 for 6 months now and STILL can’t find certain functions in Word & Excel – is it just me??? Am I getting old?
If life were like a DVR, I could skip forward over the parts where I wait for Excel to update and recalc.
yesterday = amazing historic moment. Today = irritating excel fail. Can I have the historic moment day back pls?

VBA and Java

No 400-level programming course should contain “This project uses one of the most overlooked “program languages” there is—Microsoft Excel.”
Writing an Excel macro. Amazing that the macro editor in Office hasn’t really changed since Word 6.
Writing VBA the way anyone should, with a strong coffee, some peace and quiet. Kids + xbox later, so VBA is my R&R

Duck and Ballerinas

excel spreadsheets are tedious but make me feel like i have my shizz together, ducks in a row, etc.
lol I would never claim to be anything other than “barely competent” at Excel – just a page ahead in the manual 😉
I’m free to daydream of becoming a ballerina whilst Excel and Access do all my work.
Home from a bad date. He professed love for excel spreadsheets 4 over an hour & I shared how I often share a bed w/ my laptop & blackberry