Excel Twitters 20090131
Excel, chocolate fish or glue gun? Which would you choose?
Cabin fever seems to be taking hold on Excel users who Twitter. Their winter-addled brains imagine that Excel is a living, breathing, evil being. But that’s just silly. Excel is a bit cranky sometimes, but it’s not evil.
More people must be using Excel 2007, because the “loss of fidelity” message gets a few mentions every week. Ah yes, we Excel users are a pretty funny bunch. Or maybe you just need a sense of humour to survive Excel hell.
Ruh Roh
- couldn’t understand why my computer was running so slow, but after a check of task Manager I discovered I had 16 instances of Excel running!
- a while back i created a super secret excel file for work. guess i did a good job of hiding it, because i can’t find it anywhere. *grumble*
- an officemate collapsed whilst doing his excel worksheet…tsktsktsk. it’s not worth it, man
- ruh roh. grumbling about Excel on Twitter and 48 hrs later I am getting spam about Excel training.
- waiting for my pivot table to return from it’s self imposed exile, where it’s gone to i know not just that it’s taken 100% of my cpu with it
Happy Times
- Having a sneaky chocolate fish and operating under the premise that if there’s an Excel spreadsheet open, everyone thinks you’re working.
- Just was given three bottle of Hornitos for solving an Excel related problem.
- I haven’t been this happy in weeks: my OLAP pivot table thing actually has the correct data in it.
It’s All In Your Mind
- Sometimes I think MS Excel reads my mind and deliberately does the opposite of what I want.
- pretty sure my excel model has become self-aware; let me know if you see any terminators around…
- Any guy who writes Excel macros is on the GOOD page in my book! “Getting” VisiCalc in the summer of 1982 totally changed my life!
- Wrangling with VBA in excel so that people don’t have to think.
Prepare Yourself
- Feeling thwarted- I quit being an accountant because it sucks rocks, but here I sit creating an Excel spreadsheet for the play I’m designing
- Never ever ever think it’s a good idea to put all your debt into excel, then hit the Sum function without preparing yourself for it first
- too bad building a model of a spacecraft means a series of spreadsheets in excel. Pipecleaners, cardboard & a glue gun would be more fun 🙂
Very Disappointing
- If stupid MS Excel had some nifty way of exporting graphs as PNG or JPG files, that’d be so freaking awesome, right now it’s all a bit FAIL.
- seriously? I can’t copy entries from name manager from one workbook to another? Excel 2007- i’m very disappointed in you.
- Only having mean in Excel tables pivot tables to show ‘average’ stinks. A single outlier can throw off the summarized data.
Comedy of Errors
- puzzled by Microsoft Office’s dire warnings of a “loss of fidelity” in my Excel worksheet. Should I reposition my antenna? Use reel-to-reel?
- “Microsoft Office Excel is currently recovering your documents.” When you’re done with that Microsoft Office will you recover my couch?
- I want to go back in time and make sure the mother of the guy who invented Excel never falls in love with his father.
- Mired in Excel spreadsheets. There is a fine line between BI and BS.