Excel Twitter 20140103

Are you glad to be back at work after the holidays, and using spreadsheets again? Pace yourself though – don’t make too many charts or pivot tables on your first day back.

• Throwing my name in the ring for employee of the month after using a VLOOKUP & a pivot table within 12 hours of a holiday.
• The first work day every January when I have to set up new spreadsheets and have to use Excel help because I forgot how to format the cells!
• Me and Excel just do not get along. I keep getting error messages every time I attempt to change a code. ??????
• Strangely, I missed being at work. Was good to be back… Even if I did only get to look at Excel Spreadsheets
• The most exciting thing I’ve done today is create a pivot table for the first time. Just a tad depressing.
• Make a chart in Excel to zest it up a bit.
• I’ve got my graph on excel but I’m not even sure if it’s right! #idontcareanymore #ihategeography
• That metallic, grinding sound you’re hearing is my MacBook Air attempting to open a 6MB Excel Macro-Enabled Workbook … with OpenOffice.
• After having to Google “How to create a graph in Excel” I have come to the conclusion that I am truly hopeless with technology.
• Tomorrow’s work goal: code this excel book to auto update all 9 billion charts when I dump end of year data in jan and still leave by 5pm
• Charts sound super handy, and I can see Excel being good for that.
• I dunno, nothing says ‘i love you’ like a pivot table.
• I am SHOCKED to discover that a lobbyist would put out a 3D pie chart. They are Excel’s built-in “lie” function.
• Shared Christmas dinner with the inventor of the pivot table yesterday. Impressed.
• My silly work still uses Excel 2003. Some have upgraded to 2010, it just took me minutes to find how to conditional format. I feel old.
• Work today: copy numbers from one Excel spreadsheet to another for a study I’m doing. No, I can’t automate it. Lucky I got a PhD!
• I suggest everyone learn to code something, even if it is Visual Basic for Applications or an Excel spreadsheet. I’m learning R now.
• I know I say it every year but this year is going to be the year of the pivot table for me.

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