Excel Twitters 20090625 – Excel Theatre Blog

Excel wonks? I’m not sure what those are, but I hope it’s a good thing! There were a few interesting links in the Excel tweets this week, and some creative similes. One person has been using a workbook for the past 10 years. I’m sure you have a few Excel files that are older than that! Are there some really old ones that you still use regularly?

And those guys are way too late with their idea for a pivot table group in Facebook. But maybe they could organize a Twitter campaign to get Excel fixed. Now, I’m off to work on some Mad Libs.

Excel Wonks

I know, I know. bacon done… sandwich eaten. Progressing to the Excel spreadsheet and filtering data, hmm.
Another good site for fellow excel wonks – http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html
I make more Excel spreadsheets by 9 AM than most people make all day. The few, the proud, the former-Marines-who-now-work-in-a-cubicle.

Little Shop of Horrors

This workbook has gone from merely having a size complex to just being stroppy. It’s like a difficult tennager.
Forced to use Excel today. It’s like going to Steve Martin’s dentist character from Little Shop of Horrors.
Dealing with Microsoft Excel 2000 is like using flint tools to skin a bison. Frustrating.

Thanks for the Feedback

Hell is spending 30 minutes and counting on the phone trying to teach my dad how to sort a column in Excel.
When the Microsoft Office Excel recovery programme also crashes, you know you’re in for a world of pain
Amount of time spent in Excel ’08 today: 20 minutes. Approx portion of that time spend sending feedback to MS about this crappy program: 67%
Outlook is broken and these folks want Microsoft to fix it: http://fixoutlook.org/ How about EXCEL? Fix Excel…

Chart Wizards

I sworn I’d never be that guy, the guy who sits in a cube all day making Excel pie charts and bar graphs – yet here I sit….
Really geeking it up today – Interesting way to do Multiple-baseline charts in excel http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/StackedLine.html
Excel’s Chart Wizard is the Mad Libs of statistical graphics: template-driven and frequently yielding ludicrous results.

A Zillion Years of Excel

Number crunching for the past zillion years! The guy who invented excel in 1985 is single handedly responsible for birth of mgmt consulting!
You made me laugh. “Excel obsolete soon?” Spreadsheets jump started the PC revolution. They’re not leaving anytime soon.
I just started an excel spreadsheet around 10 years ago and have kept using it since.

Dog’s Breakfast

no need for Illlustrator, Excel is all you need http://bit.ly/No1Jg (via @jzy) Insane YouTube vid, wonder how long it actually took.
Made an excel spreadsheet for all the medicine my dog has to take twice a day… We’ll see how he likes those pills at 4 am tomorrow…
Writing data extraction routines to create skills database. As usual data captured in stupid way in spreadsheet. Excel refuge of the sloppy.

A Typical Tuesday

As one entrepreneur told me, “With a couple of beers and an Excel spreadsheet, you can make a lot of money in no time.” – WSJ
Just got a job offer from the Scottish Parliament using VB.NET and VBA – dont know which is worse :S
Afternoon agenda: Clean up this excel grid, go meet Sandra Day O’Connor, finish weekly POS report. You know, just your typical Tuesday.

Meet Girls

maybe we should start a pivot table group on facebook. great way to meet girls probably huh? 😉
Don’t trust anyone over thirty. At least when it comes to word or excel.
please remember that the last guy I went out with won me over with, “What’s your favorite Excel function?”
Create an interactive whiteboard Jeopardy game easily using Microsoft Excel. http://bit.ly/kD0KU

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