Excel Twitters 20090221 – Excel Theatre Blog

Excel can cure you, or make you sick. It can ruin your social life, or help you find a celebrity match. Candy, fish, beer and movies – Excel can help with almost anything. Just remember, hotties hate Excel, and a geek is cheaper than a book.

Excellent Medicine

Suffering from Excel myopia. This is a well known medical condition.
is feeling better than this morning. I’m sure an afternoon of excel will change that.
A weekend packed with awesome plans became a weekend packed with herbal tea and taxes. Hoping Excel will kill my stomach bug’s will to live.

Purgatory

Excel was defiantly designed by the peeps who run Purgatory. One does not know hell till one succumbs to Access 😛
I’m with you. There are certainly times when I would rather watch “Baby Einstein” videos than look at Excel spreadsheets.
I just got out of an Excel/WinXP support question by telling them “I’m a Mac user”. It was as if I had said “I know less than you.”

Eye Candy

I find Gant charts very left brain… and I don’t know what my brain is but neither it nor Excel ‘think’ like me 😉
Collecting bags of M&Ms for an Excel workshop for elementary teachers this afternoon. Charting number of each color, graphing, then eating!

Excel is Divine

Parents out there I cannot stress this enough, if you teach your kids nothing else teach them Excel! Most important tool in business
Best tool besides Undo in Excel? Format Painter…followed by Paste Special and Paste Special/Transpose
Being able to do simple things in Excel around the office allows me to stay indispensable, which is nice.
I have three bibles…the Holy, Access and Excel. Seriously, the software “Bible” series by Wiley has never failed me. Check them out.

Something Fishy

I’m afraid the excel teacher guy is going to spontaneously combust. His pivot table excitement level seems dangerously high.
My favorite sushi restaurant has online menus in Excel! I love them even more now that I can make a pivot table of all the rolls.
Just used Google docs to make a Fish and Chip order list spreadsheet …. with a PIVOT TABLE!

Social Life

hoping that no hotties find out that I’m spending my long weekend learning about Excel macros. hotties HATE excel.
I’m updating my Excel to Twitter add-in, but no blog posts planned this weekend
someone @microsoft saw my twitter complaint about excel and posted something at getsatisfaction http://tinyurl.com/cm29p6

Tea and Taxes

Holy crap, dorkiness achieved. Massive excel spreadsheet of all my movies and tv shows complete with algorithms for rand # generator ranges
creating an excel spreadsheet of girlfriends of all my celebrity crushes so I can narrow what they have in common and modify accordingly.
Have my virtual assistant from india copying all of my ratings from Ratebeer to an excel document. Next step – get it into @97bottles.

Clueless VBA

has sold out and joined a VBA forum. These geeks know their stuff and cheaper than a book
I write code like a moron sometimes….VBA needs an infinite loop breaker of some kind too just for people like me when I do something dumb.
Holy Hell if you haven’t had to deal with Excel dates in your code, feel lucky!
Think I should have tested my clueless vba on one or two records, not all 146…

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