Excel Twitters 20090403 – Excel Theatre Blog

It’s been a very Excel focussed week in Twitter, but not the spreadsheet kind. The G20 Summit was held at the Excel Centre in London, where protesters gathered, and provoked much security and endless tweets. The UK Excel User Group conference was held nearby, so I hope they weren’t inconvenienced too much. There were a couple of tweets from the conference, but I guess they were too busy absorbing information to tweet much.

There were some spreadsheet Excel tweets too…including a link to a short story created in Excel, and a report that someone from Microsoft is responding to bug tweets. Now I have to go and grease my formulaic wheels.

Graph Greatness

Always making data an interesting read… @tgwilson on visualizing march madness in Excel – http://is.gd/pQzW
Also, look at the graph, in very light grey, it says ‘Graph created in Excel to showcase Microsoft’s greatness… re: http://ff.im/1PPKn
There’s a bug in Excel 2008 Mac that causes the app to crash if you save and then edit the source of a chart. I hate this bug.

Throw Me a Circle

I am spending far too much time classifying my life into Excel Spreadsheets. And I am not even a Virgo.
had a dream last night that involved an Excel spreadsheet & the number 754. I feel Microsoft owes me something for dream product placement.
Trying to disconnect after a day working in Excel. All I can seen is an endless grid of lines. Somebody throw me a circle.
Going to read a little in bed before lights-out. Chose a book on VBA. This is either hysterically funny or deeply pitiful. Probably both.

Driven to Drink

Ahh, Friday beer time. Beer really does grease the formulaic wheels of Excel. All offices should to this.
BTW – thru personal testing, I find Excel works much better when the user sips a single malt. Strange that.

UK Excel User Group Conference

Just seen that the microsoft speaker at tomorrow’s excel event is flying in. Should be good…
Just seen a great data exchange presentation followed by starting VBA…

Microsoft Reaches Out

Todd- thanks for reaching out! Todd from Microsoft has reached out regarding my issues with Mac:Excel. Very cool. Emailing u Todd
MFST-millionaire Charles Simonyi – father of word and excel – arrives at the international space station. http://bit.ly/oiK8y

Excel and the Economy

“It starts out as a clever Excel macro and next thing you know you’re bringing down the global economy.”
London G20: Excel centre: Protestors will push a giant ‘iceberg’ to the Excel centre in Docklands today as part .. http://tinyurl.com/cfa6jw

Pivot Power

I still think that Excel shouldn’t be used as a DB, but Pivot tables are PURE POWER!!
Pfff, I had some kid who wrote “Expert in Excel” or something. Turns out he didn’t even know what a pivot table was.

Flight of Fancy

Made an Excel program for flight planning. Now what was once two hours of hand calcs is now 30 minutes of decency
Check out this short story written in Excel format (http://twitthis.com/5v4keo). It works + it’s a great read!

Excel Geeks

You’d think there would be some way could make money from knowing a lot about excel…
Im an IT manager. I do not change ur mouse batteries, I do not show u how to use excel, n most importantly I DO NOT change the hallway lites
Great advice from financial modeling class yesterday: set yur screensaver to an excel spreadsheet, so it looks like you’re incredibly smart
I was an art history major…what am I doing working on excel sheets until 1am?

The Answer to Everything

Apparently Excel is the answer. The answer to everything. If I’d only known this before I wouldn’t have bothered with a CS degree…
If your solution is Excel, chances are that you haven’t really thought enough about the problem.

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