Excel Twitters 20090501

Do you have dataviz fantasies? Does Excel fulfill them? Would you accept a second date if it asked? Maybe that accountant told a TRIM joke, and that’s why the second date was refused.

At least no one is blaming Excel for the swine flu. Yet.

Dataviz Fantasies

• Excel is not fulfilling my dataviz fantasies.
• Do not present site analytics via an Excel spreadsheet. The numbers tell a story, so you need to tell us a story.
• I could build you a data center, move you to vm, migrate or build any email system out there, but can’t make a graph in excel. is that sad?

A Beautiful Mind

• I’m realizing I can’t even do basic math without excel .. Technology is making me stupid.
• Do you think listening to the “A Beautiful Mind” soundtrack will help me with the excel spreadsheet I am working on? Yea me neither.
• Finally sleeping after realizing I couldn’t figure out excel in one sitting.

Social Skills

• He was an accountant and loved Excel; she was a poet. He organised his tinned food by expiry date. He asked for a second date; she said no.
• have taught mum how to use excel… until next time she goes to use it
• Pickup lines you seldom hear: “Are you proficient in Microsoft Excel?”
• what do you say when a friend approaches you and says:”My mother just gave me an excel file breakdown of how much i owe living with her.”

75 Simple Pieces

• Not at all. Many of us believe that Excel’s best function is merely to serve as a calendar-schedule for tiny football helmets.
• I created an Excel spreadsheet and broke down what needs to be done to make this place perfect into 75 simple pieces.
• Just spent two hours catalogging all of my comics into an Excel spreadsheet. It felt good and nerdy

The VBA Twist

• some of us are reduced to hacking VBA for the employment of our colleagues who then bizarrely prefer it to the *proper* software!
• is reading a book on VBA for excel. Excitin’. Waiting for the twist.

Excel at Work

• infact, why can’t all internet pages which we shouldn’t be on at work be disdguised as Excel Spreadsheets….
• Doing Excel work to satisfy Micro Management Addiction (not mine).
• More Excel training for things I already know followed by teaching myself SPSS. Government efficiency, people.
• is anyone familiar witht he “mail merger” feature on excel? I might have just agreed to everything during an interview and am not sure

Trim Your Formulas

• if anybody knows an alternate formla to reproduce excel’s TRIM function without using TRIM, please let me know
• never trust somebody else’s Excel formulas… just found HUGE mistakes that could have cost us thousands of dollars… luckily I like Excel
• I can’t believe that in over 20 years of using Excel and other spreadsheets, I’ve never chuckled over the trim() function. Heh-heh, ‘trim’.

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