Excel Humor

Excel Twitter 20110503

Would you rather have Excel mentioned in your eulogy, or LOLCats? That’s an easy decision, unlike the choice you might have had, if you voted yesterday. Have just learned you can put background images (of lolcats, obviously) in Excel charts. This case study just got real. Teaching your mother-in-law Excel formulas and functions should earn…

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Excel Twitter 20110430

Like everything else, Excel had to compete with the Royal Wedding for attention yesterday. Some welcomed the break, and others ignored it. Would rather be in #work than watch the #RoyalWedding … Cch, excel, sage, outlook … I’m missing you guys! =sum(you+me) resulted in an error. Excel should never write a love song. #officeboredom everyones…

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Excel Twitter 20110421

Poor students! Don’t they suffer enough, without having to learn Excel too? Their teacher is being irrational! Excel is a wonderful tool for many things. Statistics is not among them. // is this true?! #Statistics #Excel Actually heard: "Why won’t my Excel worksheet show fractions?" Reply: "Sounds like it’s being irrational." #ouch i’m like nearly…

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Excel Twitter 20110411

Back to work after a lovely spring weekend, and some people are cringing when they open Excel. What about you? Hung over? Or Awesome? Burying myself in a spreadsheet, hiding from the METs playing consistently – consistently bad pitching, consistently bad clutch hitting… sleeeeeeeepppp – this spreadsheet was a far more complex mire of cells…

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Excel Twitter 20110408

The cautionary Excel tale warns about sorting disasters, but doesn’t mention frozen 3D pie charts or sunken pivot tables. Be careful out there! Spreadsheets have a more than passing resemblance to #battleship. ie: "You just sunk my pivot table!" I’ve never had any performance issues with my computer. But apparently running a pivot table on…