Excel Twitter 20150327

How long have you been making Excel charts? Do you still find them maddening? Or are you busy building pivot tables, and writing formulas, on a super slow Mac?

This Week’s Tweets

• I judge people at the office by their ability to use a pivot table.
• So now I’m known as the “excel queen” at work… I mean I would rather be the queen of something cooler but I’ll take it ??
• Spending more time making graphs on excel look pretty then doing the actual work behind them…
• In my new life, I’ve mostly embraced spreadsheets, pivot tables, knotty budgets, labyrinthine formulas…but excel charts?! #fittobetied
• You can tell a lot about an engineer based on how eloquently they work in Excel.
• When you start an Excel course and there is someone in the room who is struggling with opening a workbook. #longdayahead
• One excel graph just took me an hour and it still doesn’t look right. I hate u chem and misleading directions
• Today has done me over! If i never use a pivot table again it’ll be too soon! #busy #placement #business ??????
• Types in Youtube: How to make a simple graph in Excel… ‘Cause I don’t know how
• I’ve been making #Excel charts nearly 20 yrs, yet “Overlap” and “Gap width” are STILL maddening nonsense to me.
• Sometimes I think Microsoft intentionally made Excel work super slow on Macs…
• Guys, I successfully made a pivot table and organized a bunch of data. SUCCESS. Human:1, computer:0 #sortof
• Don’t buy a fancy graphics or dashboard solution if you already own excel and don’t do this already. The hard work is getting clean data.
• My mom will not know what hit her when I give her my excel spread sheet with 3D charts and tables explaining my need for a pair of all stars
• Having to work in an excel sheet with inconsistently merged cells but without the permission to change them. This is the 10th circle of hell
• When you have to debug code that worked perfectly 4 weeks ago and you successfully imported from an excel worksheet and now it’s like nah
• My computer just gave me the BSOD right after I spent an hour setting up this Excel workbook. Do I give up now?
• Things I’ve learned to appreciate since starting work: free food, bathroom breaks, excel formulas

This Week’s Tweets By

thomasrafael, T_Keyrose07, R_Fozzle, vlryan, MikeIngmanson, tracymarkham, nikkipedonee, HannahGrenfell, meggiewegsss, dhchait, JasonPeck, kelllyzhou, mattberan, LeratoDikhing, MachineDynamics, Berneau_Berns, TheBrianMarks, sherrybearie

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