Excel Twitters 20090703 – Excel Theatre Blog

Cryptography, crime fighting, dyscalculia – it’s been another exciting week of Excel revelations in Twitter. But while some have been dragged to the dark side, others see art and beauty in Excel. And who looks at some old code and wonders what idiot wrote it? Nah, that’s never happened to me!

The Bright Side

Just distilled a day’s worth of work into a 10 second process. I am the emperor of Excel.
ms excel 2007 – where have you been all my life? more than 3 conditions for conditional formatting? auto-remove dups? auto table formats?!
just found out that we’re going to get into day 40,000 this monday july 6th. excel has day 0 in 1900. scared?

The Dark Side

carefully checked excel sheet before replicating it 15 times When I was done I found the error that now has to be fixed 15 times
Populating another Excel document that quite possibly will never be looked at or referenced in the future.
Oh god. I am being dragged over to the dark side. An ‘up’grade to Excel 2007 looks inevitable. By the end of the week… Agh.
Granted, a lot of my hate for Excel has to do with my hate for algebra. I have a long, intimate relationship with dyscalculia.

Data Analysis

I love how pasting a excel chart into illustrator gives you an editable vector 🙂 pretty friggin handy!
My Data Analyst job is slowly being made redundant. Stop making it easy to interpret data. please? http://tiny.cc/bXuhh Long live MS Excel

Anger Management

Man, I hate Excel. If you select multiple cells, there is no way to de-select just one. You have to start over. Unbelievable.
http://twitpic.com/8u7ci – According to Microsoft, I created and saved an Excel file 1st January 1601 at 02.00.
Wow! My just opened up an Excel wizard and then said “Man, this looks complicated.” Even MS Office wizards are tricky.
http://twitpic.com/8u2ri – MS Excel hidden anger management function “DAVE RAGE”, no idea what it does, afraid to find out!

Classic Pivot Tables

is amazing herself with what she can do in excel with a pivot table…its a beautiful thing!
Little things like finally finding the ‘Classic PivotTable layout’ checkbox in Excel 2007 make me REALLY happy.

Grooving

What happens when a MacBook, an Excel spreadsheet, the music of Sigurrós and a can of Coke Light come together? A kick-ass project plan!
Geeking out in Excel and grooving to Beck. Sometimes I don’t hate my job.
spreadsheets in my business, excel on my mind, in the office all day, no time to unwind.

Career Plans

Opened up Excel to find out I’d lost yesterday’s 90 minutes of work – somehow it hurts more when you know you did the work on a Sunday.
Just bought this slick wireless 10-key that has integrated Excel shortcuts: http://tinyurl.com/nbxsxg
My preferred career plan: Speechwriter who fights MS Excel crime by night
Sometimes I leave an older excel window open on my computer screen so it looks like I am doing work….

Cracking the Code

this cryptography course is giving me plenty of opportunity to brush up on my Excel skills. Excel can help with most pre-WW2 ciphers.
MS Excel 2003 still kicks ass: “Excelence” – A demo made in Excel! http://is.gd/1lh2p #demoscene #bp09 (ed. You might want to turn the volume down for this one!)
is wondering if microsoft looked at all other programming languages and decided to do the OPPOSITE when designing VB/VBA. It’s useless!
Revised an old VBA program for a new client; what moron coded this? <ahem>

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