Excel Twitters 20090529
Blowguns, beer and Excel? I don’t even want to know what that tweet means. There were lots of tweets about Oracle query and the moving mouse, that I first saw mentioned in J-Walk’s spreadsheet blog this week.
And there are plenty of people who complain about their bosses and co-workers, and their lack of Excel skills. I hope those work mates don’t read Twitter!
The Mean Sheets
- Forecasted operating profit for biz venture based on already optimistic figures =$4. Excel spreadsheets don’t lie, but they sure are mean 🙁
- Last week a client called me an ‘Excel ninja’. I think that’s just a few steps up from ‘data monkey’.
- Oh stupid excel.. couldn’t you crash after I saved the calculation???
- Trying to figure out how to reduce my data collection spreadsheet to fit on a standard A4 page. Excel estimates that will take 342 pages…
No Pie Charts?
- Anyone know of an Excel add on or way to graph on a map of the USA?
- Excel Dashboard and Visualization Bootcamp is winding down, went very well. Have to leave for the airport. Plan to sleep on the plane.
- Within 10 minutes of waking up, i had someone asking for help with excel charts 🙁
- Teaching new IAs how to make charts in Excel. They are thrilled with the possibilities of cone charts, 3-D bubble graphs, donut charts, etc.
Family Fun
- Got back from breakfast to find 2yo had attempted to find Sesame Street on my laptop. Instead deleted excel spreadsheet i’d been working on.
- my former husbands parents had yachts. Bought a 93 foot beauty named The Excel that had been owned by an ms excel creator.
Get With the Flow
- Rap on micro excel-never ending columns never ending rows so boring i cant get with the flow im only a intern so they dont give me dough.Fo’
- “If you move your mouse pointer continuously while data is being returned to Excel, the query may not fail.” http://bit.ly/3kLvR
- Microsoft Excel, much like a shark, can never stop moving or else it will die.
- I wonder why the blowgun didn’t work? Anyway, it’s pretty stupid. They just put it into an excel sheet. Probably better with beer.
Word Counts
- abusing Excel as a text processing tool is taking its toll, some strings get cut off at a certain length 🙁
- Doing math with excel on baby names in history-at a party (we’ve been at this for an hour)-thanks Social Security Administration!!! #geek
- Configuring library management system to accept stocktaking with Excel and Notepad. Very hi-tech.
- Put all the foul words I know into an Excel sheet, wrote/applied a complex formula, came up with the ULTIMATE hybrid swear word..
- Writing all day. Added 1565 words yesterday. Would have been more if not distracted by creating excel file to track word count.
VBA Discoveries
- Excel macros – both bane and boon, depending on how badly they screw up.
- Astrophysics: String Theory was discovered by a VBA developer. After all… everything is just a String
- after checking my comprehensive debugging notes for this excel macro (“s_ed = 2/1/2010 <– WTF?!”), i’ve finally solved this stupid thing!
Who’s the Boss?
- Funny thing about my work. I’m not allowed to call a shovel a shovel. I’m told it’s an Excel spreadsheet.
- Hectic at work. Hate budgeting presentations made by people who do not know to use Excel Solver. Glad that day ends at 2pm for the CHL Final
- today i learned that my boss does not know how to add. seriously. she even used an excel spreadsheet and still got it wrong.