Excel Humor

Excel Twitters 20090417

ByDebra Dalgleish

The big excitement in Twitter this week was the release of SpreadTweet, a Twitter tool that looks like an Excel file.  There were a few tweets about Office Palooza, Microsoft’s VBA programming contest, and links to interesting add-ins and Excel related articles.

And I didn’t know where Federation Square is – there’s lots to learn from Twitter.

Arbitrary and Dumb

  • Reviewing project budget planning and trying to get my Excel groove on – sadly I don’t have one.
  • What kind of printing house *needs* the file to be in MS Excel to be able to print a 16″ x 30″ poster?! It’s insane I tell you! Insane!
  • I’ll take “Math I don’t understand for $200 Alex… “=(+C3*D3*E3)/1000000*F3” WHAT IS “USELESS INFOMATION spit out by Excel!”
  • I must have been stuck in email too much today – was just searching for “Mark as read” for an Excel column instead of “Hide”. 🙂
  • Why would Microsoft put a 255 character limit on footers in Excel? Arbitrary and Dumb.

Way Too Many Charts

  • Nice Excel add-on from BonaVista systems for doing clean charts. http://bit.ly/3PA30l
  • Learn R Toolkit by Kelly O’Day to help Excel users make advanced charts in R is available at http://tinyurl.com/dzsbbk
  • just found out some funny behaviours in Excel.Chart.applyLayout()
  • Waaaaay too many Excel charts for one evening. I wonder if I’ll dream in ‘default color’ tonight. Zzzzzzzz time now.

It’s Like Square Squirrel Soup

  • I hate excel 2007. It’s like Federation Square – they hid all the useful things behind a complicated shell of faux-sexiness.
  • Learning how to manipulate these hoary excel forms is like learning to milk squirrels. Difficult, possible, unlikely to be useful in future.
  • I used to work for a company where many excel spreadsheets were linked to Oracle databases. It was like eating soup with a knife.

MVP News

All Atwitter

  • lookup dick kusleika – he has been using excel for twitter http://bit.ly/VwKow
  • Trying my first message. I’m at my desk doing Excel graphs.
  • If you want to look as though you’re working on Excel spreadsheets but are actually on Twitter http://bit.ly/11axV9

Sharpen Your Skills

  • I wrote an article for MSDN Mag about converting to VSTO/.NET from VBA, if writing VBA makes you feel dirty http://bit.ly/2Xf5u
  • VBA is my anti-alzheimer treatment.
  • Office Palooza: Join the contest to test & sharpen your VBA programming skills!: http://tinyurl.com/cm2clg
  • Did a tiny amount of VBA coding – the research on how to do it took many times the effort of the actual coding.

Enterprise Mashups

  • Are Enterprise Mashups the successor to Microsoft Excel? @johncrupi thinks they might be: http://bit.ly/8yNR
  • Listening to designers try to modify an Excel spreadsheet is probably the funniest part of my day. Thanks for putting me in the design cube.
  • Turns out temping is pretty boring. However, I feel confident that one day my vast knowledge of Excel will allow me to take over the world.

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