Excel Twitter 20110301

image Check your calendars — it’s March 1st, not February 29th. And please don’t write on your monitor.

  • I don’t understand solving problem in excel by solver D:
  • Took me a while to work out why Excel wouldn’t auto-convert 29/2 to a date. Doh!
  • Grease pen or highlighter. Drawn directly on the monitor. Always the best way to do charts in Excel.
  • Why would you make an excel-file to ‘make things easier’ and then make it this messy, when it prints? smh stupid companies..
  • Course…Pivot table time….sleeppy…
  • It really shouldn’t be this hard to turn an excel spreadsheet into mailing labels.
  • This #oscars prediction spreadsheet is engulfing me. The real winner tonight is Microsoft Excel
  • Excel took 10 minutes to open a single worksheet. I’m running Office 2004 on a 2007 computer. If there’s an excuse, I’m all ears.
  • The AND function can tell what is TRUE and FALSE. Its symbol is a blind woman holding scales #excel #AND
  • Used to track winners via yellow legal pad and clipboard, tonight making an excel chart. Once a stage manager, always a stage manager…
  • one hour of code optimisation later, the excel macro now only takes 3 minutes to run instead of 30+minutes
  • Just accidentally posted a picture of a pug into an Excel Spreadsheet. Might leave it there.
  • oh man under what tab in excel is the option for a pivot table? i can’t find it…
  • Am i the only who keeps an Excel chart of all their coupons from these group buying sites? #virgo
  • Excel Hell again today, at least these are torts and not beers… so I got that going for me. #fml
  • I am master of #Excel! It took nearly 2 hrs to figure out 2 formulas but got there in the end! (there’s a gd reason I’m in law not finance!)

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Excel Twitter 20110228

What did you do for fun on the weekend? Solve recursion problems? Watch campy movies? Practise safe sorting?

  • just solved a recursion problem in my Excel spreadsheet, to auto-count the number of times a cell has been edited. #excitingsaturdaynights
  • Don’t you hate it when closing #Excel and it asks you if you want to save, even though you last saved right after all changes? WTF changed??
  • traversing the wilds of #Excel #ExecutiveDashboarding #barefoot in my #VFF Mocs
  • Need to find a way for this stupid excel formula to work. Putting in the right thing but it’s giving me 0 as the answer when it’s not. -_-
  • I am working on my menu spreadsheet and just got remembered that i learned at work how to do a pivot table in Excel. #geek
  • I just built a spreadsheet to track poop. No, really.
  • girl, we are all about excel during nyc/lon/mil/paris fw. Spent too many an hr becoming besties with that beast of a spreadsheet.
  • I’m in some kind of Excel spreadsheet hell…. Who created that STUPID program? A man… that’s who…
  • So those columns that I hid in a spreadsheet I haven’t opened since August? Yeah, those would have helped this project along two hours ago!
  • entering all of my pros and cons into an excel spreadsheet. Saves potential suitors time and money.
  • I’m categorizing my movies in an Excel spreadsheet and I’m dearly tempted to use ‘campy’ on Camp Rock. Because it’s… camp-y. #3am
  • Love it: "Always practice safe sorting." – Jo Craven McGinty with New York Times. Her point was to be wary using excel shortcuts. #nicar11
  • work sucks but atleast my brother plays good music while we do it! jamming out while making an excel spreadsheet, ya kno, normal stuff
  • Well…on the plus side – uni has now shown me how to make charts on Excel.
  • my roommate just calculated the amount of vodka we have left by making a pie chart on excel…..hahahah
  • whew! that’s a wrap! peace out #excel! I’ve had enough of your crashing for one day! and yes, i’ve heard of #openoffice

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Excel Twitter 20110226

calculator Does your boss know how to use Excel? Or does your boss prefer a whiteboard and calculator?

  • Been working on a massive spreadsheet for about 4 hours now…while on flu meds. Might need someone to look over this when I’m done.
  • Once again managed to demostrate my abilities by showing big boss how to freeze and unfreeze panes in Excel 🙂
  • My boss just admitted to me he’s addicted to Microsoft Excel.. Haha, Excel grocery lists and all.
  • All the world’s raw data,And all the men and women merely pivot-tablers…William Spreadsheetspeare, "As you Excel it"
  • My PhD is in making Excel charts, more or less.
  • cos it couldnt have a pivot table! I’m a only a little bit of an excel geek,honest! (My old boss used to say I had a crush on it!)
  • Today I wrote policy and made a spreadsheet to track in-kind donations. Nonprofit work is just so sexy sometimes.
  • Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! F’n Excel! Ohh how I hate you! Sure wish I had ur older sister…Power Pivot! #pipedreams
  • i love excel and all but not when i already have a headache and had to do the same worksheet twice…..;( #notfun
  • See? an Excel spreadsheet makes a great alternative to a database… #wordsthatcanstartawar #WordsThatCanStartAGeekWar
  • I’m also probably better on Microsoft Excel than him. Who needs to do duets with Rihanna + Nicki Minaj. I’m a Star of the Spreadsheet
  • You know life is changing when u get excited about your #microsoft #excel doc with a vlookup table!! #nerdshavemorefun
  • Watching my boss use Excel http://imgur.com/NSn4w
  • Hey, Excel. Your "auto recover" spitting out a blank workbook without my data isn’t very helpful. I can’t work like this!
  • Staring blankly at an excel spreadsheet like I will mon-fri for the rest of my life.
  • I’m the excel master right now. So many pivot tables, so many formulas. All while the dulcet tones of Little River Band dance in my head
  • Its working! Why does excel mess up one day and work perfectly the next day? Does a night’s sleep matter? #excel #walkenbach
  • Took a pic of my boss’ whiteboard list w/ my #iPhone, emailed it to myself, & used it to update an excel spreadsheet. #ilovetechnology

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Excel Twitter 20110225

image What is your guilty secret? Do you find Excel spreadsheets aesthetically pleasing? What about spring themed spreadsheets?

  • With a couple of key strokes a co-worker made everything on his spreadsheet disappear! He discovered the excel Dim Mak http://bit.ly/eK8HUx
  • If only I knew how "ROUND", "SUM", "IF" "AND" and "ROW" made it work. And why my chart looks nothing like the example #excel #fail
  • that CFO called a spreadsheet "aesthetically pleasing." either he doesn’t know what that means or actually thinks excel is lovely. #scary
  • I’m making a spring themed excel spreadsheet. : )
  • I started opening this pivot table six minutes ago.
  • My work computer (the first PC I’ve used in a decade) just announced MS Excel was restarting. Interesting…Excel wasn’t open to begin with
  • I’ve just seen a spreadsheet, of which appears to have images embedded in it, of excel spreadsheets.
  • I need to find a reason to make a pivot table. #ExcelLoveAffair
  • hey, but I got MS office pro for $10 thru my work! Having real Excel will make me happy. I tried Numbers and I was sad.
  • Excel isn’t the only program out there that can produce charts, you know! 😉
  • Sorting out who gets the next batch of robots. This spreadsheet has saved my ass!
  • Just waiting for the person who is TRACKING things on the EXCEL spreadsheet to RETURN to her desk. *plays some music*
  • Working from home has been a success today! Except this Excel work is going to drive me insane… #DoctorWhoMarathon
  • Just deleted forty min worth of work on excel in error #timeforbed
  • god that excel training was boring…and has given me a headache! i shall be dreaming about pie charts and the ‘IF’ function tonight…
  • Dad just asked for an excel spreadsheet breaking down the costs of Grad Fair next week. #nerdalert
  • I have a genuine love for Microsoft Excel…there you are.,my geeky guilty secret is out!
  • I’ve busted into the Excel spreadsheet. Give me about 30 minutes and then send the dogs.

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Excel Twitter 20110224

 image Lots of Excel charting problems in yesterday’s tweets. Maybe a day on the ski slopes would help!

  • There aren’t many jobs where you have a spreadsheet that says things like ‘I made a unicorn’, and ‘Giraffes can’t dance’. #Ihaveastrangejob
  • I have just discovered Pivot tables in Excel. This day is comparable to the day I discovered mail merge.
  • Shout out to the fella behind me: I know you’re peeping my tweeting activities. *opens an Excel spreadsheet*
  • Spending whole day driveling over if spreadsheet cells should be red, yellow, or green. Mindless speculation.
  • Guess what I get to do today? It’s a pivot table! Dammit! Why?! April 16, I’m setting excel on fire. It’s settled.
  • Grinding my teeth over this stupid Excel thing… now my teeth hurt…
  • #excel sucks! It auto converts some of my gene symbols to dates and I can’t format them back…grrr
  • Negotiating my way down a choppy red ski slope is much more fun than negotiating a diabolical excel sheet. #FML
  • If you are applying for a job as a comp bio professor its probably not a good idea to use excel to make graphs & pie charts. #rstats
  • Sometimes the lack of creativity with charts/graphs in Excel is maddening. And by sometimes I mean always.
  • And the sighing.. Hair pulling drama has begun..(Over some spreadsheet) its not even 9am yet!
  • Mad I just wasted a good thirty minutes on Excel because I didn’t know the difference btwn a bar graph and a column chart.
  • I’m bring a party hat made out of an Excel spreadsheet.
  • My husband required the skills of the Excel Goddess. And she obliged. #Excel=pathtoenlightenment
  • As a CS major, I used to make fun of ppl taking classes for Excel, but I’ve spent last 3 hrs trying to make a chart. Wish I’d taken a class.
  • A couple more pivot tables and you’ll need to marry that Excel file. #WhiteCollarSmackdown
  • Sometimes instead of fixing others mistakes it’s just easier to start from the beginning yourself. #Excel
  • One Excel model built. Six to go. Is it time to go home yet? :s

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Excel Twitter 20110223

image Some days you make rainbows in Excel, some days Excel makes you cry.  And remember, you don’t have to count things on the screen with your finger.

  • While pointing at charts in excel I dully explained "this is what daddy does all day at work." Mags excitedly affirmed "You make rainbows!"
  • well my excel spreadsheet won’t let me type in it. Says its not compatible. So I forfeit
  • Now that Excel allows over 65,536 rows, I regularly use over 100,000. And that I love. 65,536 was a serious constraint.
  • I am making a Gantt Chart in Excel. Someone stop me.
  • How sick is it that I had a good day today because the majority if my work day was excel modeling or talking about excel modeling? #nerd
  • Whoever invented pivot table.. THANK YOU! U just made my data extraction easier. *big kiss*
  • So in Excel speak COUNT((RON(ANGER)) + COUNT((EXCEL(WORK)) = HATE(infinity)
  • Dear @Microsoft, You owe me (1) hour for the work I lost when Excel crashed for the third time today.
  • Gotta love working formulas on excel all morning. =vlookup(carlisbored$1203)
  • today i successfully installed a macro (not a lolcat, an actual code whatsis) & learned me some new excel formula
  • An excel spreadsheet just made me cry.
  • I wish I knew how to use excel better. I know I shouldn’t be counting things with my finger on the screen. I also know it can draw charts.
  • Dear excel~ Pls don’t hang… I did not save my work…
  • Wizards have wands. Fortune tellers have crystal balls. I have Pivot Tables. #bloody #hell #iheart #excel
  • I’m hours into trying to get a client’s vital, missing, Excel spreadsheet back. Since the user was storing all his files locally… yeah.
  • Learning more about MS #Excel than I’d like to right now.
  • Wishing Excel would just read my mind instead of making me try to learn how pivot tables work…
  • On excel news, managed to sort out the commission spreadsheet in around 5 minutes. Apparently its taken IT 2 weeks not to sort it out. Haha!

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Excel Twitter 20110222

image Sure, Excel can be slower than a 2-thumb BlackBerry tweet, but if you’re spending 4498748 hours on homework, there might be a problem!

  • I just use a spreadsheet, personally I use open office but if you’re posh you might have Excel already?
  • Perhaps someday I’ll be proficient enough with Oracle analytic functions that I won’t have to rely upon Excel pivot tables…
  • Ive been on this same Excel homework problem for like 4498748 hours lol I hate this crap, I dont need to learn it..Ill pay someone to.
  • #excel. you’re too complicated for me ;|
  • It’s monday morning I got to work in 7 mins and get to start a new Spreadsheet – it doesnt get much better than that ! ( I assume )
  • Overwhelmed with the decisions to be made and the constraints for each. My life should not require a spreadsheet.
  • I have no life. my work life consists of my computer screen and excel spreadsheets. no love. 🙁
  • My spreadsheet is so big, that changing autofilter from "custom" to "all" takes longer than a 2-thumb blackberry tweet. About 10x longer #fb
  • Putting together a spreadsheet of potential new residences. Distance from @Wegmans has its own column… What?
  • Once more into the Excel spreadsheet – 6 features, 3 countries, 4 weeks, 4 flights, 4 trains, 1 driver, countless hotels and taxis #Asia
  • I don’t think I’ll ever grow tired of creating a #PivotTable in #Excel and watching patterns emerge #DataIsCool
  • You can fill #Excel with groceries, but can you get it to drive to the store and buy them? http://bit.ly/fvLDQJ
  • Oh Excel, you are so important, yet deep down inside I hate you passionately.
  • I just created an excel spreadsheet for my blog to help me keep track of posting on a regular basis. #blog
  • Project burn down tables and charts done using Excel data connection to SQL Server and my number one favourite formula SUMPRODUCT #calvis
  • Can’t open an excel file because it is being used by a user…. which was actually me (according to excel). *rage* #FML
  • Made an Excel spreadsheet that, when names and scores per turn are input, will output Total and Average Score per player. Dork win!

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Excel Twitter 20110221

image Today is Family Day, and people are spending time with their moms and Excel. Everything should go well, if they save frequently, and avoid pie charts.

  • And I’ve used the first hour of my #Sunday laying out some sexy new #Excel spreadsheets for my #personalfinances.
  • it’s nuts, doing some excel work on sunday. But I’m doing it :p
  • Why do data entry companies love Excel so much? I’m looking for a company who works with Lotus Notes.
  • I want "I am number 4" to fail bcse I can’t stand James Frey and bcse it was so blatantly created like a macro in Excel.
  • Awesome, I’m in class & I just learned in excel how to find out my exact birthday. I was born on a Tuesday! Must be why i love Tuesdays..
  • Why oh why is it so difficult to just draw a straight vertical line on an excel chart?
  • Spent the day doing my budget. Spreadsheet is pretty! *pats self on back* If only difference between Income & Expenditure was smaller… 🙁
  • Im high on relief! managed to recover a whole days work after not saving my excel file properly. Please have a beer with me to celebrate!
  • Work? Work! Work?! I feel like an excell spreadsheet and look like a word document…
  • dreamt the universe was an excel spreadsheet.
  • Somebody doesn’t know how to do their math… and I’m betting it’s not the formula driven Excel sheet. #work
  • Oh, Excel, why did I think that not saving you constantly wouldn’t result in crashing, lost work, and tears
  • No one can help with this excel problem i’m having?? I’m trying to finish this project in an hour
  • My mom just tried to steal my spreadsheet. FUNNY. I worked too hard on that.
  • Who said ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’? They got it wrong in any case – have mastered iPod synching & excel pie charts!
  • Stupid excel, JUST MAKE A GRAPH I WANT
  • My mom just explained excel spreadsheet as ‘Exciting’ lol I don’t think that’s possible 🙂
  • I asked my mom to help me with excel hw, not complain about how the manager in the theoretical problem is "Jon" & the housekeeper is "she"
  • Should probably do something about this homework situation. Anybody know how to make Excel work by using only your mind?

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Excel Twitter 20110219

image Six hours without Excel? Need to stay calm. How would you get through the day, without doing magical things in a spreadsheet?

  • A pivot table is a heavyweight tool used to aggregate, summarize and join tabular data for people who can’t spell SQL.
  • I like my new desk at work, now I can look out of the window at a traffic light. It’ll be like an all-day rave but with Excel.
  • Now entering spreadsheet hell. Population: 1
  • just created my first Pivot Table!!! I thought I went into Communications & Marketing so I wouldn’t have to do this.
  • Excel is so smart it can subtract two numbers and put the result in the same format and so stupid it changes 37 days to Feb 6,1900.
  • I just did something magical in Excel but then my workbook mysteriously disappeared…
  • It’s been kinda math heavy this morning. Bond pricing and #VBA #Excel. Is it home time yet?
  • Doing taxes and accidentally put in 4 xtra digits on an income line in homemade tax spreadsheet . Taxes up lots. But I’d take that deal.
  • My love for the pencil & eraser feature on Microsoft Excel probably sums up my entire personality.
  • I HATE copying #Excel charts in #Word. It NEVER works. – Need to stay calm –
  • Dear Excel, I missed you the past 6hrs w/o my spreadsheet my world was at a standstill. I lost track of time money passwords & mostly myself
  • Although not Excel’s biggest fan, the fact i colour code it to oblivion brightens an afternoon with excel on the screen. Excelling at Excel?
  • I merged multiple data sources into one pivot. i am KING OF THE EXCEL!
  • you got to trust me, cutting cardboard is way better than doing and formatting pivot tables in excel with more than 2500 entries
  • Man, I love vlookup #Excel #MakesLifeSoMuchEasier
  • I love teaching myself how to do new things in excel. I excel at excel.
  • Is there an #iPhone app to edit #excel files?
  • Making an excel sheet while listening to the Rocky theme. Way to feel like a boss.

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Excel Twitter 20110218

image Have you ever been bored enough to start reading the Excel help files? Or do you resort to gin when the going gets tough?

  • OH: I didn’t fall in love with you, I fell in love with your spreadsheet.
  • Oh man, I’m getting old. Can’t read the small print on excel spreadsheet. 🙁
  • Implausibly and embarrassingly excited to final discover how to mix charttypes in excel…. #sadandproud
  • Dear Statistics professors: If you’re going to assign complex graph projects, please train your students in basic Excel. Love, the Help Desk
  • I know what a Pivot Table is. Let me just say they are no fun. Good luck with Excel. Cheers.
  • Gin, gin, thesis chapters, gin, gin, gin, thesis, gin, thesis, gin gin complicated excel spreadsheet, ginny gin gin.
  • Excel training = super boring. Do I need to make a pivot table? Negative. I’d like to color the charts again please.
  • Trying to make one simple bar graph in Excel and I’m ready to burst into tears of frustration. I is stupid at the numbers.
  • For the first time I’ve created spreadsheet so crazy, I’m forced to use the "manual" calculation option. Otherwise, it just hangs. #Excel
  • Yea now I know I got OCD. I just saved this spreadsheet like 5 times w/o changing a thing. Smh
  • Spreadsheet woozy yet again. Staying up til 3 probably doesn’t help. #excel #grumpy
  • My boss, to me, today: "Keep this sheet for yourself, I already have mine". Yes, Excel sheet.
  • I use an excel spreadsheet with 2 passwords of It’s own to open2keep them all secure. One day I’ll be locked out of my own life
  • Just heard my boss’s boss ask for ‘unconditional formats’ to be added into an excel sheet. Unfortunately she didn’t get a witty retort.
  • I think everything that could possibly break in this spreadsheet did so. Back into an @arcadefire and Excel work coma.
  • I absolutely despise Excel when it can’t understand what I’m trying to do.
  • Everyone at work makes fun of me for getting excited about Excel and pie charts.
  • After working with software for more than 10 years, I found it amazing that Excel is still the best software i work with!!
  • Today at work we had an hour meeting about color coded excel spreadsheets.
  • So bored at work I’ve started reading Excel help files. Actually learnt something useful. Shocking I know

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Excel Twitter 20110217

image Yes, you can sort by colour in Excel now, but in exchange, the chart features are worse, and the macros are stupid. But life in Excel is never dull!

  • Excel took away "I can’t sort on yellow" as a way to scold bad spreadsheet design. On the plus(?) side, I can sort by yellow cells.
  • I love excel because you can do cool things -gosh my math teacher is a nerd.
  • there is nothing sexier, nor more rock’n’roll than a spreadsheet. #whatwouldIknow?
  • I think I just broke excel with the mother of all pivot tables
  • Have spent most of yesterday and today building Excel templates to chart responses of Volunteer Surveys. Who said my life was dull? :-/
  • Neata! Learning about Excel pivot tables first thing in the morning. :))
  • watching my boss trying to work with excel is pretty close to torture.
  • I broke Excel 2003 so badly yesterday, I had to reinstall it. After the fix, my routine built a chart in <2 sec. Before: 15 minutes.
  • I actually love excel! I use it all the time for keeping my personal records 🙂 I just forget sometimes this one function.
  • Just spent 2 hours on an excel project only to save over it with a blank worksheet. Good one.
  • WTH happened to charts in Excel 2010. It would be quicker to draw this stuff. <headdesk><knifeartery>
  • Excel …don’t you just hate it? I’m constantly having to create spreadsheets at work w/ it.
  • I love Excel. Use it all the time at work. It’s a pain at first, but once you start making it work for you, it’s awesome.
  • Give me a pivot table big enough and a spreadsheet on which to run it, and I shall move the world.
  • I really dislike Excel. Why does this budget worksheet hate me so much?! Why won’t the formulas work?! (Don’t say "user error", lol)
  • If excel would just work today might be okay. Stupid macros.
  • Ha I’ve just worked out something (very simple) on excel – tomorrow I shall be kicking spreadsheet butt #justsaying
  • It s when Excel doesn’t work that you figure out its usefulness! #IsaythatIsaynothing
  • I LOVE tax time! finally, all my excel spreadsheets, receipt saving, and accounting, DONE! (p.s. i’m very aware of my nerdiness 🙂

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Excel Twitter 20110216

image Wow! That pie chart really is ugly. I wonder if they made anything that hideous in Lotus 1-2-3.

  • Excel makes really pretty graphs. Seriously, the pie charts are breathtaking. God, I’m lame.
  • Just been saved about an hours worth of work,YES EXCEL ROCKS…I didn’t think i’d ever say that!!!x
  • Oh my GOD I hate excel. Why is there no damn easy button to creating charts and graphs? Or am I just a hopeless data moron?
  • Nice my homework was a lot easier thanks to Excel doc that we were allowed to use..love that! Wish I could do that on the test tho..
  • Take that, Excel — ABC’s Jonathan Karl tries to explain the federal budget using the world’s ugliest 3D pie chart http://j.mp/e0AIQc
  • Yeah I’m tired as hell, but I just made one sexy excel spreadsheet.
  • even today it is still amazingly easy to stun people with the 2010 Conditional Formatting features.
  • a big thank you for the that fantasy comp i played in that you run, i learnt Excel formulas that have be very helpful with work.
  • Have you used VLOOKUP or made a pivot table yet?
  • Been alive for 6161 days 🙂 I love Microsoft Excel 😀
  • Nothing like conquering a 7321 x 20 spreadsheet to make me feel like I accomplished something today.
  • I just fixed my husband’s Excel problem with a formula I learned in Lotus 1-2-3. Some spreadsheets never go out of style. #nerdery
  • Found a way to simplify our Excel calculations by using pivot tables… Only no one here has ever heard of pivot tables… Oy!
  • statistics are a myth created by the spreadsheet maniacs. in reality no numbers exist at all… #madeupfacts
  • Just discovered QUERY and IMPORTRANGE in Google Spreadsheet – I am in Love!! What a function! Watch out Excel Pivot you are in trouble now!
  • More Excel lessons tomorrow. IF formulas, Vlookups and Pivot tables – am I the only one who loves these?
  • I would tweet that I can’t sleep because I just had a coffee drink but then someone might ask if I looked over that spreadsheet they sent.
  • Oh lovely a project plan timeline chart done entirely by highlighting cells in Excel. Wonder how it scales 😉

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Excel Twitter 20110215

image There was a lot of love for Excel in yesterday’s Valentine tweets. And a few people who didn’t seem to love Excel too much. The rum raisin ice cream should help, or a spreadsheet full of cocktails.

  • I’ll be listening to Michael Buble for the rest of the night… he’s my valentine.. him, my mac and this expense input spreadsheet! #nice
  • I don’t care what anyone thinks any more…I love excel spreadsheets! There I said it.
  • maaaaaannn..it took me about a month to complete this spreadsheet project…just for them to turnaround and want me to add more to it :-\
  • It’s #excel day today. Taking a break from making presentations. What exactly was my job profile when I joined this company? 😛
  • Sometimes you just gotta learn to say no 😉 #VBA #Excel
  • Thanks excel for ruining an entire hours worth of work in a mere second… fantastic day already
  • Night class after four hours of excel work is literally sucking the life out of me.
  • If it’s the last thing I do today, I’m going to remember how to use this IF-THEN formula on #excel. I’m going to get it
  • Anyone know how I an default my pivot table data to Sum rather than Count? #tweetsthatwilllosefollowersquickly
  • I could maybe not be more proud of anything right now than I am of this Excel spreadsheet I just created. #iamanerd
  • Seriously considering signing up for an Excel financial modeling class. On a Saturday. This is truly a new low in my geek-dom.
  • I miss Rum Raisin Ice Cream & Milk Shake. Next time ,working w/ this super torturing Excel Workbook should be accompanied by one of those ?
  • Management Tip of the Day: There is no spreadsheet that cannot be made to tell the lie you want.
  • Auditor: oh excel, I love you. You can count difficult numbers by yourself. So independent. So sexy.
  • the debate about the budget makes me think our politicians never learned excel b/c simple accounting would be a major problem solver here.
  • Consolidated to-do lists into #excel list sortable by type, priority, deadline, description haha. Why didnt I think of this before haha #in
  • Dear @Microsoft Please return print production people to your #Excel team. Default 3D finishes on graphs look like printing errors
  • You should make a spreadsheet of all the cocktails you drink.

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Excel Twitter 20110214

image Happy Valentine’s Day! Some tweeters spent a romantic weekend with Excel, and others seem to be falling out of love with spreadsheets.

  • Just created an excel function to calculate how many Diet Mt. Dew I drink based on how many hours I work that day. Beat that.
  • I am a Pivot Table GOD! (and Prince of VLOOKUP)
  • just spent over an hour inputting 40 questionnaires into excel.. it is mind numbingly boring #fml
  • At both work and home, Excel is at the top of my Start Menu. I’m not sure what that says about me, but I’m not sure I like it.
  • I spent a good few hours making a solid Excel accounting spreadsheet. Went to try it on Mac and macros aren’t supported. :-((
  • Reading this spreadsheet is bumming me out more than Tess of the D’Urbivilles did. £350 into a financial black hole.
  • I woke up in a fantastic mood but the longer I stay indoors staring at this excel spreadsheet the worse I feel 🙁
  • I busted my ass compiling data for this giant master spreadsheet for two days. My boss’s response? "I like the pastel colors." Eff off.
  • I’m so fed up with Microsoft Excel! Stupid macros.. Stupid VBs!
  • Lady on my team just whipped out an Excel spreadsheet with over 20,000 lines! Not to mention the pivot tables and such… #gasp
  • My boss calls me into his office just so I can show him some shortcuts for Microsoft Excel. I find this so funny.
  • Doing work on a saturday yet again. Excel charts are becoming a lifestyle staple.
  • There aren’t enough hours in the day to work out Excel macros.
  • I need to step my Excel game up in a major way. Advice?
  • Telling potential MBA programs that my greatest career achievement is a series of Excel pivot tables is extremely depressing, humbling.
  • Evening dreamin’ about waking up w/o an alarm tomorrow. And not touching a powerpoint or spreadsheet all day long.
  • After 1.5 yrs of tasting beers on a regular basis, finally entering everything into a spreadsheet. Learning "meh" is not a tasting note.
  • but most (all?) of those spreadsheet horrors were human error … can’t blame Excel and friends for that … even if I want to.
  • Dear pivot table, no offense but I’m not sure I like u right now!

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Excel Twitter 20110212

image Which would you rather find in your Excel spreadsheet? A rainbow or a burger? Of course, either of those would be better than that spinning beach ball!

  • when in doubt create a spreadsheet with rainbows and glitter
  • Dear Excel: how long until you turn off the spinning beach ball, and totally crash my work from the last hour?
  • Currently sitting in an #excel tutorial. I know it’s good for me but that doesn’t mean it’s not torture.
  • Headache! This stupid Microsoft Excel is way harder than I thought.
  • wow am i really understanding #excel rite now? :O ohmagod
  • watching the snow at my office melt while working on a spreadsheet…
  • Designing a new spreadsheet while I wait for the pizza to arrive :)) #FridayNightFun
  • as i was going through my spreadsheet, i realized that i had a lot of love songs… :/
  • It’s not that my colleague’s running commentary of his Excel spreadsheet isn’t fascinating, it’s just that I’m going to kill him.
  • you read my mind. What exactly is Excel doing for that first 20s after you open a spreadsheet?
  • I love how mom-boss says "I need three computers to view this Excel table, it’s so wide" BRING HER MOAR COMPUTERS.
  • If you dont even know whats a pivot table, you are not an advanced Excel user, in fact you are not even an Excel user at all …
  • I’ve noticed most teachers of online classes aren’t very comp savvy..My excel teacher could not get the printer to work for final
  • My laptop has developed a life of its own+has decided not to allow me to work in #Excel-I can’t select any cell, it insists on selecting all
  • VLOOKUP to the rescue! #Excel #IAmANerd
  • I have a burger stuck in the middle of my spreadsheet and I can’t get rid of it. This is hilarious but not funny on deadline!
  • Doing something so tedious (spreadsheet) I’m not sure it’s humanly possible.

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Excel Twitter 20110211

learnhawaiian After reading today’s Excel tweets, you’ll be able to talk to your professional pie charts in Hawaiian. Sorry, the Morse code translator isn’t ready yet.

  • At work just now: *mumble mumble* "Pardon?" "Oh sorry, I was talking to this Excel chart" "Riiiiiight…"
  • Can’t believe how much of an excel geek I am! If I could only work out the formula for life….
  • I’m color-coding rows in a spreadsheet. Even creepier is that I like it.What’s next, cleaning up my desktop? Matching my socks? #gatewaydrug
  • Just created the most complex pie chart that Excel has ever seen, Looks like a bullet wound in the centre of my laptop screen…
  • I can code websites, and I understand calculus and physics, but I can’t get the NOW function to work in Excel.
  • Excel is not behaving today. Why do you give me the option of pretty pivot charts if they only make you freeze?
  • Work is feeling a bit like groundhogday lately. I blame Excel.
  • I have to admit that adjusting existing charts and diagrams was much easier in Excel than it is in Numbers.
  • Quickly create a professional pie-chart in #Microsoft #Excel 20007/2010: http://goo.gl/R90YE
  • So I arrive back at the parent’s place after weeks away, first comment from Mum "glad you’re here, I have a problem with Excel".
  • Todays downtime is to be spent writing a morse code translator in Excel.
  • Brain hurts: just wrote #Excel function with 6 nested IFs, 6 VLOOKUPs, 10 INDEX and MATCHES and 4 dyanmic ranges. Ouch. It works, though!
  • Why on earth I’ve waited this long to convert my #photography #invoice to an #Excel document, I’ll never know.
  • The one who creates an Excel spreadsheet is the only one who knows what’s going on in it. #facts. I’m dealing w/ 8 proofs of this right now!
  • Ok I thought I knew ever function in excel but VLOOKUP is the enemy I can’t get it to work.
  • I just had to reboot for the second time this year. Stupid Excel was the cause both times. #MacLove.
  • you’re not going to get black lung from an excel spreadsheet
  • Triangulation 4: Bob Frankston – Computer pioneer who helped create the first spreadsheet, Bob Frankston, is this we… http://ow.ly/1bgq0G
  • Hawaiian word of the day: kela (kay-lah) = Excelling, exceeding, projecting beyond, reaching high above; to excel. #H50

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Excel Twitter 20110210

imageNo one told me that if you just kept track of all the feedings, and other baby activities, in a spreadsheet, you could take the baby back, after one week. Oh well, it’s too late now!

  • Predicament: I need help with a pivot table in excel, but I’m too proud to ask any of the smug jerks who might know the answer. #imaleo
  • My kingdom for a poxy spreadsheet! #anythingexceptaflippingPPT
  • Best profile I’ve seen in a while… I’m just a girl, sitting in front of a spreadsheet, asking it for insights.
  • My boss thinks I’m concentrating intensely on this excel spreadsheet but I’m really playing family feud on games.com. #badass
  • My Dad needed Excel help. He was so impressed I knew how to sum cells on two different work sheets onto a third sheet #awww #measure #Excel
  • I see spreadsheets as a way to hold data; I’ve come across some that think that Excel workbook is a canvas in which to attempt colorful art
  • We’ll see how successful I am. I just need to make small spreadsheet thingy. #convincedIcandoitnosweat #probablydelusional
  • Not that I don’t love Excel spreadsheets, mind you. They pretty much make life worth living. (What’s the formula for sarcasm?)
  • Combining array based formulas and the indirect function together in #Excel creates a mutant super-awesome spreadsheet #win
  • In scientific papers, we must avoid fancy 3D #Excel plots. They are distracting and confusing #FOSS #RStats
  • I LOVE math. Excel is just a frustrating system hog that’s got a terrible user interface
  • Spent almost two weeks designing this massive spreadsheet. Actually had a butterfly or two as I started populating it today. Live the dream.
  • I have a significant amount of work to complete.I am spending my time colouring-in cells in Microsoft Excel to make pictures of faces.
  • Hope things are looking up! Is there a light at the end of the excel spreadsheet?
  • The most exhausting task ever is to work on an 8 Excel sheets straight from 9 to 5. Funny that I aint done yet :/
  • yay, I learned a thing about excel today!! yay, literally nobody cares #fml #fwp
  • Spreadsheet tracks feedings, burps, spit-ups, wet and dirty diapers. As well as sleep, awake, & fussy periods. — I take her back in 1 week.
  • I do love PPT.. but, when Excel meets PPT, it means disaster..

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Excel Twitter 20110209

cakepops Apparently, yesterday was Excel Tuesday, and people were celebrating with cake pops and wasabi peas. But the beer garden sounds even better!

  • Phone rang. At this time of night, options are: death in the family or DH’s parents have a computer problem. MIL hopelessly lost in Excel.
  • If I close my eyes hard enough, I’m in the beer garden at the flask in Highgate, not staring at an excel spreadsheet….
  • starting Excel 2010 to do math is quicker than opening Windows Calculator :/
  • Microsoft Excel. How I just enjoy you. I’m not the cleanest user nor sort things properly, but love a good formula or 3…
  • Stayed in w/plans on catching up on 9-5 work. Instead, spent the night doing a spreadsheet related to cake pops. Never thought I’d say that!
  • God and damnit together, is it STILL Tuesday?! Is anyone else stuck in this spreadsheet-infested time lock, or am I the only punished soul?
  • Hours of being my parents’ personal hotline paid off… Today I successfully helped my boss with an Excel graph over the phone
  • done something stupid 2day showed sales manager how 2 use excel to price increase 1000’s of products, now i will get calls about excel probs
  • Sometimes pivot tables and excel functions make me more excited than any boy could. Reason #817943371974197 I’m single.
  • Wow! #Excel rocks if u know what u’re doing. I just replaced years of SUM & selecting cells based on other cell with: =SUMIF(I:I,"*FC*",K:K)
  • Made a joke about PPT clip art animations while mocking a coworkers Excel pivot table skills. I’m ON FIRE today!
  • Work without panic and adrenaline is sort of just… work. Quick, somebody call me with an emergency that can only be solved with Excel!
  • Just finishd biggest spreadsheet of my life. Seeing in squares. Getting withdrawal from Excel in some perverse variant of Stockholm syndrome
  • What kind if crack was I on? I thought an all day seminar in Microsoft excel would be fun?!? Jeez Louise… I wish I was at work!
  • It’s Excel Tuesday!! It’s a bit like Powerpoint Monday but with less pictures and more numbers. #excel
  • Watching big love and chompin wasabi peas while slaving over excel sheets after a successful night @ #MMBC #boulder. I’m a #HAPPYgirl
  • Just about to leave work in shame excel beat me. Despite writing what should be the perfect formula it fails to work. 🙁
  • Finally finished, well at least with the charts. Excel we will do battle again this semester Im confident of that.
  • To solve your problem with excel. Buy a #mac and never use excel

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Excel Twitter 20110208

bach Does Bach help with your spreadsheets? Maybe it soothes your head if you have a hangover, or no idea how to work Excel.

  • the next two days are gonna be hell… I have absolutely NO idea how to work Excel
  • Excel – how to create income and outcome pie chart?
  • I’m at work, in a windowless room, working on excel. My husband is in Paris CDG airport, chilling with an A380 pilot. I sigh. #fb
  • My countif didn’t work because there was a spelling mistake in the data I was given. #Solved #Excel #Spreadsheets
  • trying to remember all the Excel functions for a spreadsheet I am building – mind distracted by Rugby though, maybe time to give up….
  • I’m scared that I’ll turn to stone if I stare at this Excel spreadsheet much longer #excelhell
  • Listening to Bach works wonders if you have loads of Excel work
  • can’t believe after doing all those excel charts last semester they want us to still do the excel practice hw for 212.
  • Do you think they’d accept a pretty graph drawn with crayons since I can’t for the life of me get this bloody formula to work in excel?!?!
  • I am learning how to use Pivot Tables in Excel with data I generated about Pokemon. I am awesome. Listed by type? Region? Level? Oh yeah.
  • its a shame i dont write anymore, but my muse left me for forever while working with too much excel sheets at work…
  • Data geek’s pivot table says plays to the right have gained 91 net yards. Plays up the middle, 76. Left, 30. Not counting kicks.
  • just realised….my life has become totally about #excel sheets…watever happened to my love affair with #ppts
  • I am using Excel to keep track of available love interests! This involves math!
  • *creeps up on spreadsheet**pounces**does battle*WINS!!
  • Creating an excel spreadsheet before dinner…only 20 mins to go!! Mulligatawny soup…scrummy!!
  • Good morning, This is the London Finance team, Grant, Adam and Bryn looking forward to a week of hot spreadsheet action. OH YEAH! #hungover

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Excel Twitter 20110207

image Do you use Sparklines in Excel 2010? You probably won’t need them if you’re using Excel to compare pizza dough recipes, but they might be useful if you’re playing God.

  • geeking out over pivot tables in excel – now if only my data was clean 🙁
  • I love excel. The nice neat columns, the magical formulae, putting chaos into order. It’s like playing God for OCDs
  • Scotch-taping excel spreadsheet together, can’t figure out how 2 make it fit on 1 pg. Modern neanderthal?"
  • AAAArgh why is Excel so BAD at making charts? surely that’s half the point of the stupid thing? #assignmentrage
  • Using #Excel 2010 – I thought I’d love #sparklines, but I haven’t found a situation in which that small amt of info is really useful.
  • sometimes i just open excel and stare at the blank worksheet…
  • Man, I just love Sparklines. This morning, I set up a dashboard of 33 sparklines in Excel 2010. Great feature.
  • dad is in the office yelling at excel, im in the kitchen yeling at the kitchen in general.
  • My Saturday night excitement is re-orienting spreadsheet data from vertical to horizontal #livingthehighlife
  • Today’s battle with Excel: why do you think 0 is a number I want you to count in the total of something in a pivot table? It. Is. 0. Die.
  • i seriously hate excel. and i hate data too -_- i don’t see why we need to analysis the stupid data.
  • Oh man, I just realized that I’m using excel to generate code.
  • Things like truth, honor, work ethic and integrity mean nothing on an Excel spreadsheet. http://bit.ly/eGLmYn And it was published.
  • A5… miss, B7… miss, A1…you sunk my pivot table!
  • Wasn’t madly in love with the Daft Punk Tron soundtrack at first. But must admit it adds an epic-scale intensity to this Excel spreadsheet.
  • I’m not the only one with a spreadsheet comparing different pizza dough recipes, and formulas for scaling them, am I?
  • I really, really hate excel 2007. The simplest little thing my boss wants me to change takes a whole hour of googling to find a work around.

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Excel Twitter 20110205

alabina That’s an interesting question — how long would it take to learn all of Excel? Would belly dance music make the process faster or slower?

  • I love when business dude types work on excel in the coffee shop with a big old note pad next to them. You can’t take notes on a computer.
  • Problem with iTunes is that it doesn’t have enough features. It’s functionality-starved. I’m writing a macro to play audio from Excel.
  • Found my limit in Excel charts. Variable width stacked columns. Can do it (Google fu) but not so that someone else can maintain it easily.
  • I never thought I’d see the day where I’m pissed that Excel will only let me plot 32,000 points on a chart. #GrowingUp
  • I call it Excel Abuse – we rely too much on Excel, it’s a spreadsheet program not analytical software, not a vacation request form, not…
  • Alabina (mix of arabic & spanish) belly dance music making editing this spreadsheet bareable!!
  • Another day of clicking away at a spreadsheet. Is it bad I look forward to my team meeting to break up my day?
  • Another day another re-write of my Excel code as the customer moves the goalposts
  • I’m sorry all my tweets have been about work and Excel this week. I’ve probably spoilt twitter for everyone haven’t i?
  • The point where you are making Excel based ‘jokes’ on Twitter is the point where one should stop work for the weekend. Down tools, everyone!
  • One thing I’ve learned from Vague Job Assignment is I seem to actually *like* making charts in excel. Yes, that was fun. #Dilbertesque
  • I haven’t tried numbers. I may have to bc excel crashes on charts. Hard to teach 8th graders that way.
  • ahhhhh! I don’t know where the spreadsheet is and I missed the meeting. I am a terrible person.
  • My boss just called me a ‘hero’ for helping her with excel. That word gets thrown around way too much…
  • one boss LOVES excel, the other one is good at BS, that sounds about right.
  • making a cost spreadsheet for my wedding. my professor would be very proud. ; )
  • I love how I solved this morning’s multi-party angst just by adding two columns to an excel spreadsheet 🙂
  • If pivot table training takes 4 1/2 hours, how long would it take to learn all of excel?

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Excel Twitter 20110204

snow shovel Some people stayed home this week, because of the ice and snow. Others bravely (and bitterly) struggled through the elements, to get to their Excel spreadsheets.

  • Spreadsheet and more spreadsheets…I don’t remember a world before #Excel.
  • Just spent 10 minutes trying to change a date on my spreadsheet to 31st February 2011…. Was getting very frustrated until I realised….
  • HOW DID I EVER LIVE WITHOUT PIVOT TABLES?! (Ok, seriously that was the last pivot table tweet for today. Or maybe ever. Probably ever.)
  • I made a spreadsheet sing and dance to impress my boss. Now it takes FOREVER to update!
  • I wish I had invented Excel so I would know how to do everything in it. That includes Pivot Tables!
  • If you’d like, I’ll explain the spreadsheet I’ll be building tomorrow. That should put you yo sleep. 🙂
  • I totally just dominated 48,000 rows of data. I know what you’re thinking: "Hey cool guy!" #geek #spreadsheet #excel
  • I love #Microsoft #Excel, but not enjoying cleaning up a database for client mailing. Oh-well. Time for #Pandora, thinking 80s.
  • actually had to go on ‘kids zone’ to make a chart instead of excel. the shame.
  • I don’t get it why the developers of #Excel gray out the subtotal functionality when data is formatted as Table. This sucks!Make it go away!
  • Microsoft should consider calling Excel "Extreme Fail" instead. I can’t think of a possible way for a spreadsheet to work LESS well.
  • Excel sheets because some of us aren’t little babies and went to work. #snowdayreads #bitterenvy
  • I didn’t realize it at the time, but Excel was where I started programming. I did it because I was lazy and reports are tedious.
  • I hear ya! We are having rolling blackouts here. We are iced in & it sucks. But they still need that spreadsheet from me : (
  • TIP: to make a super-fast chart in #Excel highlight the columns you want, then hit F11. I’m not sure how to make a chart the normal way…
  • Workplace woos… When a formula in a spreadsheet you’ve circulated for months now is wrong 🙁
  • NEW: Excel-lent: The Championship in graphs and charts: http://bit.ly/gnTB5C
  • Today I am king of Excel. Spreadsheet formulae look at my terrifying visage and tremble. All shall love me and despair! #OddTolkienReference

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Excel Twitter 20110203

MySQLbook That professor should not waste everyone’s time by teaching Excel formatting. Obviously, that time would be better spent on a spelling review, or MySQL.

  • Stupid Excel! It’s going to take me one whole day to figure out how to create a pie chart with so much statistics!
  • Congratulations! my professor just taught me how to format an Excel spreadsheet… and I thought this class couldn’t get any more rediculous
  • Why does my teacher take 10 mins to do a 1min problem?? He spent over half the class trying to open up excel
  • (and for those wondering, if I could marry any Excel feature, it would be either pivot tables, or spark lines)
  • I like to color-code Excel spreadsheets. It’s my way of saying, "I don’t like your information, but I will make it look pretty."
  • You’re way better in excel math than I am! my boss just told me. 🙂
  • Never try to impress a lady with pivot table!
  • Every time I type "VLOOKUP" I get all giddy inside, like remembering when my first child was born. #excel
  • Hearty dose of Excel today. A workbook powered by a sheet of variable assumptions is a thing of beauty.
  • I like making Excel spreadsheets. It is easy and I like this type of work. [:
  • Dear excel: I win. Sincerely, me. #TheFormulaIsLongerThanThisTweet #Winnaaah
  • Thank god for YouTube excel teaching videos. That is all I will say, but now I can Spreadsheet and I love it!
  • Attention #Microsoft: The Icons for Publisher and Excel are far too similar. Also, who uses publisher?
  • the thought of having to input all my boss’ out of order crap on an excel sheet makes ME weep.
  • love reviewing excel before presentation and realizing numbers don’t tie out. possible all nighter tonight. booooooo.
  • Got a guy at work that uses Excel for everything. Documents. Drawings. Scripting. EVERYTHING. Makes my insides itchy.
  • It’s pretty much a given that you need to learn MySQL if you want to work in marketing or business analysis. Excel isn’t good enough anymore
  • Getting up for work would be much easier if I didn’t know that I’d be staring at Excel for 8 hours straight.

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Excel Twitter 20110202

groundhogday Happy Groundhog Day! And no, this isn’t the same Excel Twitter list that I posted yesterday. But, even though I know what day it is, I still have trouble typing 2011. Glad to know that it’s not just me!

  • whenever i have to make an excel i just want to email my boss and ask why she hates me so much.
  • Head buried in an Excel worksheet at the moment! Work legacy ver 2002! home ver 2010 ahhh, no contest! Need to work from home 🙂 #work
  • QOTY:Don’t try to part the people from their Excel.It is crack. Stand between them and their problem and they will destroy you.
  • Making an Excel spreadsheet of concerts I attended during college seemed super OCD in 2002, but it’s quite helpful nowadays.
  • Holy crap! I just used a pivot table in Excel in a *real* situation! I didn’t know they could actually be useful.
  • This excel workbook is my masterpiece, my baby
  • I think it’s stupid that it takes longer to save an Excel file than it does to send messages back and forth to England.
  • Spent all morning updating a spreadsheet dating it as 2010. Spent all afternoon correcting said spreadsheet. Welcome to 2011 klee.
  • Can someone explain to me what the hell is going on in that spreadsheet ?
  • Can’t. Look. At. Any. More. Stats. Excel and pivot tables have fried my brain…
  • I seem trapped in my own personal pivot table hell.
  • Note to self – don’t name an excel file something stupid, delete it and then for the first time in month empty the trash. #3hourswasted
  • #Excel has been around how long and still doesn’t have a DaysInMonth() function? #ColdFusion, you spoil me.
  • Shocking! Excel 2003 pie chart – Good thing we are at a BI Summit. #gartnerbi http://twitpic.com/3v3xsf
  • I was just introduced to Pivot Tables on Excel ….it’s like the heavens parted….so amazing
  • Day dreaming about a Caribbean vacation but all I see is an excel spreadsheet-sad day
  • Good riddance to Excel pivot tables http://r-ecology.blogspot.com/2011/01/good-riddance-to-excel-pivot-tables.html
  • I think my excel spreadsheet just made my eye sight worser. (Is worser a word?) Excel may have also made me dumber as well. #fb

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Excel Twitter 20110201

image If you’re heading for the red carpet, you might want to use the Excel Weight Loss Tracker for a couple of weeks, so you’ll look your best. Meanwhile, I’ll be at home, messing around with the numbers.

  • This song is dedicated to Access and Excel, "why do you have to make things so complicated!"
  • Spent about an hour and a half creating an Excel spreadsheet to figure handicaps for husband’s archery league. It works. I rock.
  • We made a huge chart in Excel and messed around with the numbers there until we got it right. LOL
  • Dear boss, kindly understand tht it takes time to shift frm operations to systems to excel sheets to followup emails!Pliss to have patience
  • Was just reminded that when you delete a tab in a workbook you can’t undo it, no matter what. Oh Excel…
  • I should be on a Red Carpet right now not sitting in front of a computer looking at an excel spreadsheet…one day ..
  • No shifty worksheets with #Excel INDIRECT function http://goo.gl/5XtZd
  • Don’t think anything in homo sapiens’ evolution really prepared us for staring at a spreadsheet all day. Eyes say ouch.
  • I usually love Excel. Today, not so much. *sigh*
  • Excel 2007 charts suck. Office 2007 is broken. Open office is faster to get work done.
  • On Wednesday, I’m going to start keeping a chart of my weight loss. In Microsoft Excel.
  • #BBCFootball I’ve got BBC, Sky, twitter and excel open … Excel just in case my boss makes a surprise visit
  • Nesting is such a nice word. There aren’t many words that are so cozy in Excel. And so algebraic. #excel #algebra #functions
  • haha, i dont think the massive excel sheets i work with would cope with a touch screen!
  • i got a problem, obviously. people shouldn’t let me play with Excel. it makes me keep track of stupid things lol.
  • Rocking out in my headphones as I push my way through spreadsheet after spreadsheet. In a great mood for a Monday!
  • On a side note, how does excel 2010 not have a feature to save a chart as an image? Copy/paste to powerpoint works, but it should be easier.
  • Does anybdy know how to work excel? Anybdy?
  • Dear computer. I’m not your therapist, solve your own damn excel problem. ~ Sincerely, frustrated PNS.

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Excel Twitter 20110131

purplesneaker Apparently you need a flamenco dress, purple shoes and confetti to work with an Excel spreadsheet. With all those purchases required, no wonder some people want to enter their 16 digit credit card numbers.

  • Dear #Excel – A 15 digit number limit is stupid when you have to work with credit cards…
  • I LOVE MY MOM. And yes, I do use her on occasion (like today) for her Excel knowledge….
  • I once made a financial advisor beam with delight when I turned up to a meeting with my personal budget spreadsheet on my laptop.
  • I love that MS excel has just told me that it needs to do an ‘OLE function’. Think I need to get my flamenco dress out!
  • My cat Mya is trying to help me with my work. She says she’s a pro at excel, should I believe her? #fb
  • When I was introduced to power pivot, I thought it was a replacement for pivot table. I was wrong. It is an enhancement for pivot table.
  • the things I have to do for an allowance. Make an excel chart+a paragraph about why I need one. Hooray.
  • Cracking open a customer’s excel sheet that I haven’t touched in 4 years. VBA code kind of scares me now. Let’s hope I don’t break it.
  • Just when I think I know the coolest things about Pivot Tables I find another amazing thing about them. Microsoft Excel is amazing.
  • Loving the ultra-geeky discussion a few of my team members are having re: their love of Excel problems/solutions. #Awesome #Geeks #Fun
  • I just received a spreadsheet in bold comic sans on a yellow background. FFS.
  • It took me 1 hour, but i made a chart in excel! *confetti and cheering*
  • Is it really weird that I love making Excel spreadsheets? On 2nd thought, don’t answer that
  • How about its going on 2+ hrs and I finally figured out how to do charts on microsoft excel! GRRR #BITTER and it STILL isn’t quite right 🙁
  • My life used to revolve around MTV & MTV2 Programming Grids. Now it’s P&L Forms and Retail Mark Up Calculators. Thanks Bill Gates. #excel
  • People REALLY suck at following directions in this Excel class. I thought adults would be able to listen better. Just like children…
  • Today I am working on a targeted marketing spreadsheet. Yes I am high flying business woman. I’m lying actually but doesn’t it sound posh?!
  • Dear Microsoft Excel, I SO love you … that I really hate you sometimes. #thinksallmyexgfsgangeduponmeandwrotemsexceltokillme
  • Gave up trying to fathom boss’s Excel problem. Staring instead at my new shoes. They’re purple. Mighty stuff.

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Excel Twitter 20110129

glowinthedarkskeleton Excel users are very versatile; in addition to creating spreadsheets, they can also do phone support, write love songs, calculate astrological compatibility of pets, and assemble glow-in-the-dark skeletons.

  • Last 30 minutes: I have…fixed two computer login problems, given 2 reading recs, and taught 3 kids chart skills in Excel #WhatLibrariansDo
  • I could write a love song about Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables.
  • I need a class on Excel or a tutorial. My boss hovering over me while do this is making me forget what I know! #hoveringboss
  • The presenter on my gotomeeting e-conference misspelled "pivot table"… Three times. #ho-hum
  • Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close.Well, I’ve encountered a fit of rage and need to throw you against the wall
  • just impressed my hubby with over-the-phone Excel support. Love that I can still wow him after 15 years together! 🙂
  • they’re just annoying and stupid and frustrating! DO NOT USE MERGED CELLS!!!!! #excel
  • I <3 Excel for allowing me to make pretty charts of all this college athletics finance data!
  • Things I have done at work today: excel sheets, glow-in-the-dark-skeleton assemblage, colouring in with crayons.
  • I hate it when Excel and Access decide to work i n c r e d i b l y s ll ooo ooo w l yyyy. Bah
  • Microsoft Excel has already encountered a problem – think this is going to be a long day…
  • I’ll make a geeky excel chart with formulaes & stuff of astrological compatibility of all the people I know… and pets, why not.
  • I just had to give my mom an I.T lesson over the phone for excel & she yelled in my ear, "Heyy I did it!" Lmao lucky I love her.
  • why you still using #excel , I thought you are on the cutting edge. #numbers from Apple much better
  • Dear Pivot Table, why don’t you stay the same color I format you each time you refresh? Can any XLSX junkies give a tip?
  • Today I learnt about #Microsoft #excel. I don’t know why really as I can’t ever see me using it ever again.
  • There’s probalbly nothing more draining than an excel spreadsheet
  • Learning how to "code" in Excel. Also, cookies and milk. #CodeAtNight #UPenn
  • I just used my own logic and intuition to find a solution to a problem that was just .1% off of Excel Solver’s optimal solution. #NerdCred

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Excel Twitter 20110128

image Working with Excel can be dangerous. You could die, or fall off your chair, or have your tweets taken over by a robot. The temperature fluctuates wildly too, due to freeze panes and living hell. Be careful out there!

  • the fact that you knew about Excel Pivot tables immediately disqualifies you from calling yourself a techie.
  • Today I had a meeting to plan an Excel spreadsheet. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
  • Please ignore my last tweet on #Excel. It wasn’t tweeted by me, it was tweeted by an Excel spreadsheet on my machine. Damn bots.
  • Guy on FB: "Just discovered pivot tables in Excel. MS office rocks." #Facepalm
  • Just spent 30 mins over dinner discussing difference in mathematical elegance of DSUM to SUMIFS (Excel) #fml #killmenow #middleclass #VAT
  • #busyseason is when an accountant experiences how one can both love and hate Excel
  • Can’t leave work because I’m too excited about this chart I’m making and the discovery of how to make drop down lists in excel
  • excel sheets & champagne… Mines excel sheets and red wine… Champagne when there’s multiple worksheets! Love it
  • huh my maths teacher gave me a lot of sweets bcoz I made stupid excel table fo her LOL
  • hates working with 1-∞ relationships on a flat spreadsheet. #objectsrule
  • My life needs to not be a living spreadsheet hell this time of year. lol. For realz. Need solutions.
  • So I finally figured out how to “freeze panes” successfully in an excel spreadsheet. I don’t like how I learned it, since I had to read.
  • Being praised by the MD in front of the powers that be & the boss who has a love-hate relationship with my excel & slides: priceless
  • 6 hour Excel teaching dash in full swing. The students are excited about learning charts at 8.30 in the morning 😉 #ITMC
  • I love Excel….anyone know of a support group?
  • I love Excel, it makes my life ordered and structured and neat. I woud be lost without it!
  • Ooh. I made a pivot table. With a little arsing about when it wouldn’t group things. #excel #occasionallynifty #mostlyannoying
  • OH: "The pie chart was so colorful I wanted to put on some pink floyd & ask the mad hatter when he expected the rabbit to return." #measure
  • you have no worries! I caught an MBA grad w MS excel worksheet & he didn’t use any formulas he just input totals. i fell off chair

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Excel Twitter 20110127

teapartyThere were lots of tweets yesterday about a TV show that featured a tea party and some Excel charts. I don’t go to many tea parties, but they might be more fun if everyone brought their Excel files.

  • I hate it when people mess with fonts in a spreadsheet. Comic Sans has no place in Excel!!
  • Re-learning stupid Excel tricks with VLOOKUP and ISERROR
  • my day is already ruined. thanks to #ms #excel. anybody who can quickly teach me gnu plot?
  • Think I may do some tinkering with #Excel #VBA today, see if that gets my mind kicked into a more productive/creative gear.
  • Overlooking it’s ugly syntax, I have managed to write some beautiful #Excel #VBA macros!
  • My tax return would be a lot easier if the spreadsheet with all the info in hadn’t corrupted itself.
  • Michele bachmann made her chart for the tea party rebuttal in microsoft excel 2003.
  • Anyone know a lot about pivot tables in excel? Or a good website to learn about them? I need a refresher, stat.
  • Excel just randomly deleted an hour’s worth of work. I’m not exactly giddy right now.
  • Seems wrong to be listening to The Pixies and poking away at a spreadsheet. Doesn’t seem like they’d be cool with that.
  • Jan. 26, 1983: Spreadsheet as Easy as 1-2-3 http://nblo.gs/dtTma
  • Office Starter is pretty rubbish. you can’t even VIEW charts in Excel. might have to actually pay for it, hmph
  • Wow, a "show us your spreadsheets" contest. Now THAT is nerdy. http://bit.ly/e3WXcD 😉 Love it. #Excel
  • haven’t even got close to sleeping yet. Working on a spreadsheet. Kind of in the flow and don’t want to stop. But I really should
  • Little one needs to wake in 20 mins & I have about 20 hrs work to do. mmm wonder how quickly she can pick up Excel? #delegation #lilaeffect
  • Dear .xlsm version of excel. You’re the annoying spinoff that no one wants. Like when Kramer made that show after Seinfeld. #excel #Seinfeld
  • Excel has just chucked a hissy fit on me and locked a workbook. I think it’s hormonal.
  • For one guy on the team it now takes 60 seconds to open a 30kb spreadsheet…welcome to the future!
  • Without boss: windows media player. With boss: excel and word. #officelife

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Excel Twitter 20110126

keepcalmandcarryonmug No matter how bad things get in Excel, remember to keep calm and carry on. Maybe some club music, or a few minutes in the freezing outdoors, would relax you.

  • Made a lot of stupid Excel mistakes last night… They were all blindingly obvious after a full nights sleep. Damn it!
  • Excel just crashed. Lost my whole days work (yes I know I should save it periodically but I didnt). Fed up now.
  • Just made a pretty impressive pivot table. Now sitting for a while feeling terribly smug.
  • My excel spreadsheet looks EXACTLY like the picture in the instructions.
  • It sounds like someone in a nearby cubicle decided to bring a rave to work. Who listens to club music while making excel spreadsheets?
  • i’ve learned if you have an open excel spreadsheet with numbers on it, everyone thinks you’re working, even if you’re not.
  • using an excel spreadsheet for the first time in 6 years #unskilledgraduate
  • i love google for random excel questions… never knew about that "text to column" function before and it just saved me 2hrs of manual work.
  • The SERIES function for chart data is more flexible. than I suspected. Fun to tinker with it this way. #excel #Walkenbach #charts
  • excel makes work so hard when I can’t open the file. I’ll just do something outside in the 30 degree weather instead.
  • It breaks my heart when my pretty presentations are desecrated with Excel charts and graphs. Waaaah!
  • I have put so many V and H lookups in this workbook, I am no longer sure what is being looked up from where. #Excel #SelfFAIL
  • Does anyone kno how to work excel? I can’t seem to stop the words in typing from going into other cells.
  • I really do love starting the day with a well-done Excel chart. #excelninja
  • Dear MS Excel. When I tell you to quit & you have issues, just quit already. Don’t search for a solution to the problem & prolong the agony.
  • Day in the life of an excel spreadsheet: Get woken up. Bore people. Annoy people. Mess up a few formats. Get screamed at. Go back to sleep.
  • I realise I CAN cope with Excel forms if I colour code as well. Thus it becomes "colouring-in time’ and not ‘maths’
  • Struggling with Excel spreadsheet with one eye on my Keep Calm and Carry On poster. Must follow that advice b4 laptop ends up in garden…

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Excel Twitter 20110125

image Yesterday was the start of a new week, and some people weren’t thrilled to be back in the office, making Excel pivot tables and charts. Maybe that’s why they have meetings at a burger joint instead.

  • It’s Monday so it must be time for the spreadsheet of doom and the phone call of stupidity. Follwed by the biscuit of chocolateness
  • 2hr excel frenzy done. phew! will be dreaming of pivot tables. But I can now sort data with the best of them
  • dammit. Fixed my excel problem and don’t know how!
  • Definitely should have stayed in bed instead of letting this guy teach me how to add 3 and 3 together on #excel
  • i am filling an excel spreadsheet with swear words… #ilovemyjob
  • I just opened up Excel to do a spreadsheet for the first time since 2001 when I was in middle school. This probably won’t end well.
  • I know I’m way behind the times on this, but I finally decided to learn how to create and use Excel pivot tables. Yay for increased Excel-fu
  • I am pleased to announce that I am finished redoing the work that I did all afternoon and lost to the black hole of Excel failure.
  • anybody knw how to work excel real good?
  • I will never smoke weed to work again, I think I just invited a bum to prepare an excel sheet for my presentation.
  • Splitting headache. I wonder if it’s related to the charts, graphs and excel spreadsheets I tried to avoid today.
  • In Excel solver….it says "Setting up Problem"….I thot it was already set up…when they created Microsoft Excel….
  • News Flash: my boss always deletes Word and Excel off of every computer.
  • Will it make me sound weird if I say I’m making a reall "sexy" Excel spreadsheet? I am what I am, I wont live a lie.
  • Realizing I can, in fact, work some magic in Excel is reassuring after devoting my college years to anything that didn’t involve numbers.
  • I never had a problem with Excel, but now I’m developing a full blown hatred for it and everything it stands for
  • For the people who work in #Excel all day I give you a pat on the back. My eyes goes bonkers after 5 minutes.
  • most of my job is based around excel. Love when u get a really hard formula to work #geek
  • Love businessmen who hold meetings in mcdonalds all huddled around laptops showing power point or excel charts. Classy it aint.

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Excel Twitter 20110124

image Remember kids — don’t talk to strangers, even if they offer you a tempting Excel form. And don’t overdo the pivot tables — that could fry your brain, or cause double rainbow meltdowns. It’s a scary world!

  • You should give it a shot. I don’t use Excel for anything complicated, just to placate my OCD mainly 🙂
  • My sister and I are both doing projects now. She gets to draw & paint while I need to stare at the stupid excel :< Unfair!!!!
  • Last night I made an Excel form for a total stranger just because it was fun to do. I also teach Excel at work. I <3 Excel 🙂
  • Maybe I’m sleep deprived, but its like Ozzy *understands* my grief with this spreadsheet. Ozzy was it a pivot table that fried your brain?
  • Finally insisted on getting excel 2007 at work. Love it. I’ve been ‘Ooohing and aaaahing’ all day. You can sort by colour FFS! #witchcraft
  • Man sitting next to me is doing his betting spreadsheet… it is giving me a number head ache… no wonder he has crossed eyes
  • can’t think of a single spreadsheet related song but #spreadsheetSongs is worth a try. Have you got last.fm ?
  • I’m on a roll today. It’s not even 9am and I’ve cracked the problem with my excel macro. Tea n toast time now. #relief
  • Creating an Excel Spreadsheet is probably the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life!!!
  • I just took 3 separate lists, PIvot tabled them and VLooked them up all by myself! Sweet satisfaction. #excel
  • This is going to be an epic excel formula. If i can get it to work
  • Using square foot #gardening design to teach hubby how to use #Excel. Hi-tech meets #organic.
  • Thank God 4 autosave in excel. Accidentally unplugged my computer tryna plug in my phone charger. That would’ve been an hour’s work lost.
  • someone (not a designer) made an excel chart and put it in a slide.
  • I’m sorry, I love data, but watching someone work in Excel is absolutely torturous.
  • I’m not sure if I’m actually figuring out Excel, or if I’m just flailing about like a lunatic trying to make charts.
  • I wish I knew more about Excel. Then I could make Pivot Tables and Macros other people’s Double Rainbow…ahh Double Rainbow #imnotstoned
  • i have to master Excel in the next 48 hours. Any good links for that?
  • In post-spreadsheet incoherence state. Expecting odd dreams tonight.

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Excel Twitter 20110122

asus_slate That tweeter is crazy! The new ASUS Slate looks awesome, especially when you see Excel on it. It might be tempting, if I had an extra bag of money lying around the office.

  • All in all we’re just another part of a cell in an excel spreadsheet wall
  • I’ve spent my entire morning making a ridiculous Excel spreadsheet that when I implement it at work I may get promoted to be the CEO.
  • Sorry @windows. But showing off the awesome of some Asus slate by demoing #EXCEL is NOT sexy so stop it! http://cot.ag/dT2rn0
  • There is nothing more frustrating than sifting through a disorganized and poorly formatted spreadsheet.
  • I heart EXCEL…. the rows, the columns, the formulas….send me your spreadsheets! It’s like heaven
  • when the spreadsheet cells start to blend together it’s time for bed #excel
  • I don’t get why in Excel pivot tables are listed under "Insert" and not "Data". I can never find things with the ribbon in the new version.
  • Nothing holds more possibility than a blank Excel spreadsheet. #iloveexcel
  • A matchless (tehe) overview of the MATCH function http://bit.ly/i4eOAy
  • I love how my pipe design professor says he is an excel wiz and our class just found 4 mistakes in his spreadsheet…. how much am I paying?
  • Who loves #Excel 2010? Raise your hands!!!
  • who wants to come over and do this excel spreadsheet for me #kidding #kinda #notreally
  • Reason #89542 I am an ubergeek: I just became ridiculously excited over finding the excel macro vba code I have searched for months for!!
  • on a Mac? I swear M$ makes excel suck on a Mac just to make Apple look bad. Heard so many times "it works on my PC!"
  • My coworker just created a new word: "Excel-stupid". Describing the state after endless hours of typing stupid scores into Excel files
  • Epic fight trying to print an excel spreadsheet so it was not on 10 different pages. Way too hard for my Friday afternoon.
  • Me: Dear Pivot Table, can you deal with almost a million rows of data?Pivot Table: umm…cough…sure…brb
  • Just had the worlds strongest black coffee in preparation for staring at a spreadsheet for 4 hours. Bring it on Excel!
  • My boss should be banned from creating charts with excel.

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Excel Twitter 20110121

image Is it easier to talk to the animals, or to Excel?

  • Today Hangman, tomorrow a multi-user lobby system and 2 player battleships. I <3 @Office #Excel VBA dev.
  • Rmbr: in PR/Mrkting you are only as effective as your contact spreadsheet.
  • By they way, you know you can use the REPT() function in Excel to create a chart without it being a chart object?
  • Learning all about excel 2007, so far countifs are working, sumifs not so much. Want to get rid of an array. #excel
  • Learning how to use Excel and about the mysteries of spreadsheet making. Why yes, I am #doingmytaxes.
  • Just when I thought #excel was great I go and figure out the Vlookup function. Excel you have now been elevated to #awesome
  • Note to self: Excel takes a while to create a pivot table with 156,000 rows and 20 columns of data.
  • I just discovered Chart Templates in #Excel. #timesaver
  • YAY!! Abandoning stupid training. Never thought I’ld say this but I rather be working 😀 😀 😀 Excel, how I missed you!
  • I am often caught out by not realising that an #excel sheet has opened NOT at top left,but scrolled elsewhere,resulting in missed content 🙁
  • Excel is a lot like your liver. The more you learn about its myriad functions, the more it amazes you. #Excel
  • When you don’t know the password for a protected worksheet in Excel, open it in Numbers: protection removed.
  • I now have spreadsheet blindness!! so, the teeny weeny bottle of vino in my drawer will help sooo much later :-))
  • Should I build a pivot table, or just enter the data manually?
  • I cannot tell you how much I love Excel formulae. Seriously. It’s like computer fetishism, except not really. But still.
  • I hate doing math homework on excel it’s stupid
  • Since writing #software is talking to a computer. Am I the Dr. Doolittle of #Excel

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Excel Twitter 20110120

ExcelAnalyst If you don’t know the difference between a pivot table and an Excel table, just read the article. Don’t let your frustration lead to regrettable acts, like cheating on Excel, or insulting your co-workers.

  • Wish I was an Excel genius. I could open a file and do some work then.
  • I don’t know if my coworkers are just stupid, or ignorant, listening to them talking about how hard it is to use excel
  • Diving into Mike Alexander’s, "The Excel Analyst’s Guide to Access." Because life’s too short to spend in Spreadsheet Hell.
  • Doing some tutorials on Excel at work. I must be a complete geek as some of the things I am learning are just super cool!
  • David Gainer: "Excel table or PivotTable?" http://bit.ly/aIDX5C #Excel #MSOffice, #OfficeZealot
  • everytime i see my boss comming i have toopen up the excel and type some rubbish numbers and words n stare at receipts hahah
  • Found out "I don’t get excel" person is on twitter. How do you "get" twitter & NOT excel! I mean I love twitter, but come on, it’s no excel!
  • I didn’t feel the earthquake as I was doing earth shattering work on a sad excel sheet :-I
  • i have no work to do. copied a sudoku onto an excel spreadsheet to make it look like im busy documenting something…
  • Can’t sleep because I’m trying to solve work issues in my head. This has got to be a curse. Excel macros at midnight?
  • I think I cheated – did it a roundabout way – but it works & with minimal VBA code 🙂 #Excel
  • today I am coloring spreadsheet blocks according to cell plating numbers#youknowyouwanttobeme
  • http://twitpic.com/3raey0 Mind blowing #excel formula, had to drop it for a #vba function as ppl were poppin seizures modifying it. #design
  • Today is the day I am actually going to freak out about this #PivotTable. There, I said it out loud. #excel #help
  • Is 16,020 rows in Excel too much data? Am sooo glad My VB code works to rearrange it for my stats software!
  • Yeah, but creating charts in Excel reaches Puppy-kicking levels of frustration.
  • Oi! Hello twitter- sorry for ignoring u the last few day, I may have been cheat on u with an excel spreadsheet
  • stupid excel. why can’t you process my 150,000 cells of data in under 5 seconds.

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Excel Twitter 20110119

image Careful! You never know when you’ll run into a shark or exploding donut in Excel.

  • i hate how i still dont know how to use excel so i have to do all of my charts on paint 🙁
  • Does anybody know how to work Excel? I can’t seem to get these formulas working for an inventory sheet. #imanidiot
  • Thank goodness for filtering by cell colour in MS Excel 2007. Will help me recover hours of work I just lost.
  • just wrote an excel macro. Wow, forgot how much I hated this stuff. the things I do for my wife:)
  • now if i could just become a whiz at excel i could be really organized #InspironOne
  • The latest version of Microsoft Excel is so dumbed down you have to be stupid to use it
  • Ill be honest the last 15-30 minutes of work consist of me switching screens between Hollywood gossip sites and a blank Excel sheet…
  • Thanks Excel! for changing all of my fields to a date when I don’t want you to! #Excel #sucks
  • I hate Excel almost as much as it hates me. Data analysis fail #Igiveup
  • Okay time to stop tweeting and go play with Excel – mmm spreadsheets, pivot tables, filters, & functions!!
  • Who said math couldn’t be fun? I’m creating "exploded donut charts" in Excel. Why did my math profs hide the good stuff from me?
  • My old boss was the same way. She LOVED Excel. She would’ve mated w/ Excel if there was a way.
  • ignores pointless thread on how many rows Excel can support in a worksheet.
  • I want to read an excel file and then display its content.Can you give me the code please :confused
  • I can’t be the first one to have thought of this, but it’s fun to (silently) yell "chaaaaaaart" when you’re doing a spreadsheet. Like shark.
  • Successfully created an Excel spreadsheet of Pascal’s triangle… Shut up! I’m not a nerd… Okay, yes, I am.
  • a ~750 line excel spreadsheet doesn’t seem so crowded on a 23" LED LCD 😀
  • w00t! My boss now seems open to approaching mission-critical reports with something *other* than ultra complex, bloated Excel nightmares.

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