Excel Twitter 20110118

image If you’re preparing for an Excel exam, the first thing you should learn is how to spell Excel. You can focus on Valentine’s Day dinners, and steam punk pivot tables, later.

  • note to self: never assume that excel will know what you want it to do…idiot.
  • I really fancy trying to make a semi automatic five trebuchet repeater, firing cabbages. & a steam punk pivot table. These things must be.
  • I just had an idea to fix an Excel problem at work. I’m considering going in. Does this make me a workaholic or a good employee?
  • Interesting use of =REPT() fn in #Excel – Very popular for creating in cell charts until 2010 offered #sparklines http://bit.ly/gebXru
  • Ugh, my boss just emailed me that i need to do some tweaking to an excel spreadsheet. butt off couch to do some work πŸ™
  • I would respect someone who went to the level of organizing their wardrobe with an excel spreadsheet.
  • I love Numbers but Excel permeates government institutions. Resistance is futile.
  • I asked Jade, do you know what a excel power pivot it is? She said no, but I do in basketball. Lol.
  • on a scale of one to ten, how nerdy is it to already be mapping out my uni timetable on an excel spreadsheet?
  • Soon my first exam! What it is about? Excell, knowing all the forumulas and make charts, pivot table etc…pff!! #goodluck
  • My 8 yr old son’s force optimization worksheet for his DS Lego Battles game http://yfrog.com/h3nw1uj he’s gonna love #excel πŸ™‚ He’s ready.
  • I like putting passwords on shared drive Excel documents. It makes me feel important. #GetALifeRich
  • today I’ve got to teach myself all about Excel for my job interview on Wednesday, learn about Pivot spreadsheets. ahhhh
  • If only my coworkers hadn’t password protected the #excel cells I need to change, I could finish my work for today πŸ™
  • Whipped up an Excel spreadsheet for Gin Rummy.
  • We’re so indecisive that we’ve had to construct a spreadsheet to weigh out each valentines dinner restaurant :3
  • Thanks, yes it’s a bear. And by bear I mean Excel spreadsheet with lots and lots and lots of data. πŸ˜‰
  • You are not the boss of me, Pivot Table. Sorry, I mean Mister Pivot Table.

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Excel Twitter 20110117

image Funny…the Excel T function was covered this weekend in the 30 Excel Functions in 30 Days challenge, and people were tweeting about tea and Excel. Coincidence? You be the judge.

  • Never ever ever ever check your work email at midnight. Almost one and I’m on mission that involves Facebook and Excel.
  • I do excel spreadsheets on everything. I get made fun of frequently for it. But I dont care. I love them!
  • I’m ain’t no excel master, but I think I have improved from being excel stupid!
  • Um, I love Excel. If every person had a little more Excel in their life, god knows where our economy would be.
  • Macs are for looking cool while doing unimportant things. Excel is for actual work. The two are incompatible by definition.
  • A sudden droppage in the Force, tea and Excel sheets to the rescue.
  • is soo damn busy today! all thanks to dumb drs who don’t know how to fill up the excel listing! -_-
  • Had a very productive day at work. Then wrote an endless code that had to be killed – excel closed and I hadn’t saved. Lost it all. #eff
  • My dad is listening to Eye of the Tiger while doing Excel spreadsheets…hahahahahaha now that’s dedication. Love that man.
  • Off to spend several hours in spreadsheet hell. Have decided to do this at @techhub – hoping for sympathetic faces.
  • spell me your mysteries of finance, merlin of the excel charts
  • Just created a few pivot tables all by myself. Excel nerds unite!
  • Micro-management on acid: Changing the colour scheme on your employees excel spreadsheet.
  • *hugs* Aw! Don’t cry. You could be on your way to work and have to teach Excel like me *shudders*
  • i need to go home soon, but I keep finding bugs in my spreadsheet πŸ™ #fb
  • Drinking hot tea out of an "Excel Guru" mug. Awwww yeah #nerds
  • =if(iserror(getpivotdata…),"0",getpivotdata…)If I have to do this just one more time I’m gonna crack up #excel
  • Even an old #Excel hand like me can learn something: Use Excel more effectively: http://ow.ly/3EbnI
  • Anybody else have that 2:30 "All I want to do is crush 20 beers but I have to stare at this Excel spreadsheet for a few more hours" feeling?

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Excel Twitter 20110115

pulpfiction Chuck Norris, Vincent Vega, or Macallan scotch — which one helps you conquer Excel, and its powerful pivot tables?

  • I once taught Chuck Norris how to use vlookup.
  • The PIVOT TABLE! I thought you were a cruel Enemy but now I have a best friend!!! PS I hate you Excel…
  • Just finished drawing four pie charts by hand. I must be stuck in the dark ages. I just hate the graphs/pie charts in Excel. D:
  • Entering names into Excel during a project at work, I came across the name "Vincent Vega.”
  • My boss just "paid" me a bottle of Macallan Cask Strength scotch for 80 min of Excel work for her thesis. I have the BEST. BOSS. EVER.
  • My Excel pivot skills are getting rusty…Crap..I used to do reports and charts with ease.. Damn this 2010 Excel version.
  • Don’t you just love those moments when you feel like a complete Goober? Thank you Excel!
  • the more I work in Excel, the less optional my glasses become.
  • Taking an advanced reporting class and i’m the only student who knows what a pivot table is. Thanks, #ccp11!
  • Listening to @Warcraft soundtracks while working in Excel. The formula in B29 on worksheet 2 was particularly heroic.
  • As someone who has accidentally switched numbers in Excel charts before in my life, I feel for you.
  • Up at midnight looking at Excel spreadsheets and building out projections…LIKE A BOSS.
  • I love excel too! Not so hot on pivot tables but big fan of VLOOKUP
  • Happy 25th anniversary Excel. I know we have a love/hate relationship; Your headache:solution ratio keeps me going strong
  • 25 years and I still don’t know what a pivot table is! That deserves some bubbly.
  • People doing Excel sheets when commuting back home from work with an anxious face? Man, that sucks #fb
  • It’s a bad sign when you spend more time creating the spreadsheet to record the exam marks, than marking the exam papers themselves.
  • Budget time at work. I have never seen so many numbers!! My daughter even bought me a mug saying "I love Excel spreadsheets" Sad!
  • Just turned in a Excel Spreadsheet that looks like my kid did it. Well, I do give her food and stuff.

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Excel Twitter 20110114

image Thanks to the Excel 25th birthday celebrations, people are sharing their Excel memories. Meanwhile, back in the office, overworked hands are turning into claws — there must be some medication for that!

  • #Excel has text styles named "Normal", "Good", "Bad", and "Neutral" but no "Freakalicious". Stupid #Microsoft.
  • OH: ‘why can’t I just have an excel spreadsheet with check boxes that publishes stuff to the web sites I select?’
  • Hand has turned into claw from gripping mouse so hard for so long. Also resembling that crosseyed possum. #excel
  • @Mircosoft I remember that one time,I was up all night making excel charts for that class that I eventually got a C in.So Fun!
  • 7th grade, new kid says he can help everyone with their spreadsheet projects, the teacher asks him to open up excel and he cant, true
  • having fun with excel pivot tables to assess quite how many cataloguing years are needed… #archives
  • Just spent 12 work hours straight doing the same mind numbing task. I probably have about 2 hours to go. Luckily, Excel grid lines calm me.
  • I’m hoping that listening to the Tron Legacy soundtrack will make this excel spreadsheet as exciting as THE GRID. Zero disc battles so far.
  • you know life is dulling out when one of your accomplishments is an awesome looking excel spreadsheet. #fb
  • Reasons to Hate Excel #43: Each workbook appears as a separate instance on the taskbar but all open in the same window.
  • Excel is celebrating being 25 years old. My first spreadsheet apps from CoCo2/C64/Amiga are even older. I feel old now. #feelingold
  • Email from Microsoft encourages me to share my "favorite Excel Memory". Uh, it’s a spreadsheet, not a dead family member.
  • idk how people can look at an excel spreadsheet for an 8 hour day. #imjustsayin
  • I love my new excel spreadsheet that tracks our grocery spending!!
  • Sometimes (like right now) i sit at work and wonder how i went from almost alcoholic rapper to a father who works on excel all day
  • Making charts in excel for my aunt and grandmother to chart all the medications/doses they take.
  • Was hoping to live my whole life without learning what a pivot table is.

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Excel Twitter 20110113

image Wasn’t Excel’s 25th birthday in September? Anyway, there’s lots of celebrating going on now, so have a piece of cake, or pie, and enjoy a day with wicked awesome spreadsheets.

  • Microsoft #Excel is older than the college grad you just hired. http://bit.ly/htSSRf #depressing
  • After six hours of copying radio stories into an excel spreadsheet I’ve come to the conclusion the everything is the same.
  • Trying to create a data capture spreadsheet in excel – got the little check boxes but slowly losing my mind.
  • They should start teaching lil kids excel and vlookups and all pivot charts from junior high itself. #futurePreparation
  • *glares at excel* what is your problem with me today? All I’m asking you to do is COPY/PASTE!
  • I think I’ve done as much avoiding some work by doing other work I can do. Putting on the muck boots so I can wade through Excel now.
  • I still have to pull out my excel cheat sheets to make just about anything work. LOL
  • got up at 5am to look at some data. so far i have opened the spreadsheet….
  • My printing crazy boss just printed a 300 page Excel document and 250 pages are empty cells….
  • The lappy looks at me and I look right back. And then suddenly the excel sheets pop up.. DAMN the work today
  • my god…I’m starting to know and understand this…#excel
  • #Excel, I hate you with the fiery passion of 10 hells today. #LoveHateRelationship
  • made a wicked awesome Excel spreadsheet. Sadly OpenOffice truncates the columns when you save it.
  • Working hard on #Excel VBA codes and with #prince on the cd player. How nice it is to work like this …
  • how did I relax tonight? solved an excel problem….i am so happy.
  • try telling people that when u started work there was one PC on a trolley that u pulled to your desk if you wanted a spreadsheet
  • Making a pie chart cake for #Excel’s 25th #birthday #join2010

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Excel Twitter 20110112

image With its pie charts and VLOOKUPs, Excel can help you rule the world. Or at least your small corner of the world. I wonder if there is a web application for world domination.

  • I feel like I can control my whole world from a spread sheet …#planning #excel
  • Beyond pie charts: can "proportion-of-a-whole" be taken seriously in data #visualization? What do you think?
  • Poor pie chart, so misunderstood. The top three products account for 50% of a market. Can you see this in a bar chart?
  • It’s a good day in #Excel when you can bust out the LEN & TRIM functions from your bag of tricks!
  • It’s almost fashionable to bash #Microsoft products, but I don’t care what any1 says; MS #Excel 2007 is a very, very good piece of software
  • Excel was designed to make people feel stupid. Anyone know how to do a VLookup? No? Ok, it’s not just me -_____-
  • I close my eyes all I see are Excel charts & PowerPoint. Hope yoga helps bc my mind is all over the place right now.
  • Even after all these years, excel still has a problem with adding up time.
  • I didn’t know Microsoft Excel can make graphs and stuff. Saved me a lot of work!
  • I don’t just have a list of names, I have an Excel spreadsheet. #holdingagrudge
  • sometimes you just need to step away from the #data…. just because you can do another pivot table doesn’t mean it’s useful.
  • I accidentally deleted an excel spreadsheet that was a running record of everything I’ve done in the last 13 months. #fml
  • Excel spreadsheet now under construction to impending nuptials, it’s gonna be a good one, I can feel it.
  • Finally finished that dreaded spreadsheet that I have been pushing off for the last few days only to realize that I’m in the black. Sweet…
  • Lots of work today…but the thought of working on Excel files comforts me. #nerd.
  • i wonder if i can make excel charts while watching the jersey shore…me thinks the answer is yes
  • Excel and Powerpoint, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO LAG WHEN I NEED TO RUSH MY WORK!
  • every Excel spreadsheet is an opportunity to build/sell a webapp

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Excel Twitter 20110111

image Twitter, YouTube, Quora, Starbucks — how did we ever solve our Excel problems before these amazing resources were available?

  • I just drank starbucks and mastered the spreadsheet on microsoft excel. #doworkson
  • Loved, loathed, feared, misunderstood — #Excel VLOOKUP http://goo.gl/kJOXc
  • fighting with the pivot tables at present. Once I have gone into pivot mode cant work out how to get back to main table?
  • Dunno what it looks like. Is it a dreaded Bar of Pie chart (one of Excel’s worst)? The data would be all in one series.
  • You do so have skillz! Anyway, are the pie charts that Excel makes just too boring looking for a school project?
  • Is referring to all the cells in column A in excel as A:A the same as n=n+1? Or is that too much of a generalization? #excel
  • Apparently an Excel worksheet name can only be 31 characters in length
  • Audition shld be fun – can u format pie charts? can u use excel w/o using a mouse? banking talent 101
  • Don’t think I don’t see w/ 5 tabs opened to Twitter, Facebk, etc. Everytime someone comes around ur on that same Excel worksheet?
  • probably should not have gotten EXCEL for home. just created another spreadsheet of crafty things. #nerdalert
  • Moving grandaddy from charts on word to excel.
  • Found an excellent answer on concatenating for Excel via Quora: http://qr.ae/yIbv #Quora #Excel
  • How do you use Youtube? I learnt how to create pivot tables in excel this morning, it is so much more than an entertainment site
  • Thanks for the interview @ddalgleish http://t.co/5BimziZ vΓ­a @excellentias
  • there’s something about making and excel spreadsheet that feels euphoric to me. this is why I colour code and am obsessive about my pens
  • It’s taking 30 seconds to delete each column from this Excel spreadsheet. If this aint bout the slowest computer…..
  • Made my 1st chart out of Excel today. Me so smart lol

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Excel Twitter 20110110

image Well, the weekend is over, so that poor guy is back to his Excel files. I hope he enjoyed a few pitchers on the weekend, got some sleep, and didn’t tweak any pivot charts.

  • spreadsheet overload. Time for a beer break…..
  • Omg, computer says "fatal error" stupid excel and formulas……3hrs of work down the drain!!!! #fail
  • stupid company rules…I think my Excel model building abilities get better after a few pitchers though…
  • dude, do you know of any good programmes for building sexy pie charts/graphs. Its for a PDF and Excel is crap. Cheers love
  • I’m currently working on a spreadsheet that has 16,000 rows. SIXTEEN THOUSAND.
  • ok! It takes hours to build Excel workbook, but once completed can save hours on many projects.
  • Guys! I’m making my very first pie chart EVER in Excel! #justforfun
  • im dead ass about to cry right now.. I was working on a project all day for my boss and my excel froze and i lost everything…. REALLY!
  • Why am I making a spreadsheet when I’m not at work… for fun? I think there’s something wrong with me,
  • He asked me to help him to do Excel things next week! I hope our eyes meet across a crowded spreadsheet. (Sorry. I am beyond help)
  • I never want to see an excel spreadsheet again. Or at least until I cone back to work Monday. Peace out, work. What up, weekend?
  • Is this another weekend to be spent tweaking excel pivot charts?
  • My boss’s ineptitude continues to astound me. I know his salary is enormous, and he can barely use Excel. ‘How did you alphabetize that???’
  • Just spent a frustrating 20 minutes figuring out that an Excel issue was caused by one workbook with 1904 date system, one without. Grr.
  • Computer at work broke. That’s what I get for running Outlook AND Excel… at the same time.
  • ugh….I havent even tried keeping track of anything yet. I’m an excel chart virgin.
  • I have work in 5 hours and what am I doing instead of sleep? Making elaborate excel spreadsheets of SBL costs. LOL.
  • Excel, you took away my chart wizard. You are not my friend. I am adult enough to change the text on my x axis if I want.

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Excel Twitter 20110108

pie chart Ah yes, fugly pie charts. They make cat videos look like fine art.

  • #excel getting shaky… 52 columns x 796,984 rows = 41,443,168 cells… hang in there little buddy
  • I may appreciate the beauty of a well put together spreadsheet, but that definitely doesn’t make data entry my dream…
  • This is gonna sound stupid, but I totally wish there was an Excel-lite. Like, Word:Notepad::Excel:my ideal program
  • Helping my mom with Excel and a budget has been both a high and low point. Probably the first time my work skills have been useful to her.
  • I’d like to thank a former co-worker for protectnig a 20 tab excel workbook 1/2 in upper case 1/2 in lower case. With 2 different passwords.
  • But Excel pie charts look so fuuuuuuuglllyyyyyyy
  • I fear I have officially fallen into the geekosphere by falling in love with excel.
  • I went to art school, why does so much of my life now revolve around numbers? #excel
  • Things seem more real when they appear on a spreadsheet.
  • Today is a day of more Excel and PowerPoint. After all this work I should receive some sort of office crown.
  • I used to have a similar problem using F2 to edit in Excel… so I would just remove the F1 key:)
  • You know you are an auditor when you start screaming "YESSSS!!!" while staring at an excel spreadsheet…..
  • Right, I have cracked pivot tables. Is there anything else I should know how to do in Excel?
  • I love Excel! Haha vlookup is my best friend :p
  • Just created an Excel pivot table that will save me an insane amount of work this year. Technology is rad.
  • I really need to stop going to work hungover.. Excel was not fun today.
  • Enjoys the first week back to work. Cat videos to start the morning, then excel spreadsheets for lunch.
  • I’m busy doing a very boring spreadsheet. Did I mention that it’s very boring? And so I become distracted… Ooh look – a tweet…

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Excel Twitter 20110107

image If your only conversations are with Excel’s Text-to-Speech feature, it might be time to get out of your cubicle. You could take an educational psychology class, or ask a co-worker to sort one of your Excel sheets.

  • Trying to create a pivot table in Excel. Because I am twelve, "pivot table" seems mildly smutty and makes me giggle.
  • Spent yesterday rewriting VBA code Excel forms because we "upgraded" from 2003 to 2010. Wish MS would make things backward compatible!
  • Mac Excel autofilter stops searchng a txt strng after 255 chrcters, Found out the hard way. Workaround: contextures.com/xlautofilter02.html
  • My educational psychology professor put the course schedule in Excel. I think I’m in love!!!
  • My mission for today: learn how to use Pivot tables in Excel. Never needed them before but I feel it’s something I should know!
  • Just spent the morning rebuilding a spreadsheet that had over 20 redundant pivot tables. #excel #nerd
  • C’mon Excel. I’ll be your best friend if you stop crashing on me today. It’s not THAT much to pivot.
  • #Microsoft #Excel keeps reverting formula calculations back to manual despite keep changing to automatic. Any ideas? #help Thanks!
  • I have discovered a new form of punishment: having to search through 2800-line Excel documents to find one little zip code.
  • Is there a way download all of my tweets onto a spreadsheet? I’d like a way to scrapbook the time I was funny; before I turn into my mother.
  • #question what is the most advanced #math #problem you have #solved in #excel?
  • asked a co-worker a re-sort of an Excel spreadsheet, this is what he got back http://imgur.com/Muxv3
  • I love these office know it alls …who don’t even know what version of Excel is on their CPU. Bahahaha #peabrain
  • Yes, I am the geek who made a chart in Excel to keep track of my corrugated rib color changes.
  • I have a spreadsheet that works out how many weeks I’ve been alive. This week is week number 2011.
  • My boss doesn’t know how to use simple excel…and asks me for help on the easiest things. #headache
  • Somebody left the zoom on this Excel spreadsheet very high. Everything is HUGE! Someone on my team must be getting poor eyesight. πŸ˜‰
  • I love the Excel Text-To-Speech function because sometimes it’s nice having someone to talk to when I’m hiding from the world.

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Excel Twitter 20110106

image Excel pivot table books as romance novels — why didn’t I think of that! The movie version could feature Chuck Norris, and a few pretty charts.

  • I am super pleased with my budget spreadsheet. Which is sort of a sad commentary on how exciting my life is right now.
  • I HATE it when I do something stupid like closing an excel file I had been working on for 2+ hours without saving. #UBERFAIL #fb
  • OH:"I’m going to write a book about Excel pivot tables. It’s going to be a romance novel."
  • Slowly morphing from a techie to a task allocator.Soon I’ll uninstall Visual Studio & just live with #excel
  • I admit it okay! I’m not a super savvy Excel user. In fact, I hate Excel. But I can see how people get distracted with making charts pretty
  • I read the other day where someone celebrated the invention of the Excel spreadsheet. Why?
  • Why do people find it so hard to drag one field from a pivot table and drag another into it….
  • I don’t think the people who designed Excel have ever had to work with datasets. But thanks for trying.
  • Anyone else doing any #Excel VBA this afternoon? Is it legal?
  • It’s a spreadsheet-rific day. Kind of dizzying but the type-A side of me really loves it.
  • apparently #chucknorris can divide by 0, I wonder if he tried tracing a div/0 error in #excel?
  • Of course, some of us don’t make resolutions. Some of us make life goal charting spreadsheets. #excel #ineverysenseoftheword #boom
  • The coach for Ohio State is clutching a laminated Excel spreadsheet. He must have expected rain.
  • Conditional formatting is underrated. #excel #nerd #excelnerd
  • I miss my spreadsheets I’d sell my soul for a pivot table #geeks
  • Blinking flip I can never remember how to use vlookup in MS Excel! #excel
  • I love blank excel sheets! So many boxes to play with! Are you going to make pretty graphs too? πŸ˜‰
  • I used to be a devout calorie counter, excel spreadsheet and all. Need to find that discipline again.

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Excel Twitter 20110105

image The year in Excel is off to a good start, with sex, sword fights and dragon slaying. Those experiencing heart attacks and stolen stuff are probably using obsolete technology.

  • One group of people who freak me out? People who LOVE excel spreadsheets.
  • spreadsheet != table, there is a lot more to a spreadsheet other than visual styling.
  • oh no my dear- I love excel & could not survive without it. But I have the new one & it seems one needs to be trained for it-
  • omg….i think im going to have a heart attack. somehow my excel spreadsheet got messed up
  • So… Excel decides to quit unexpectedly and then make the file unreadable. Great, I’ve just lost a weeks work.
  • 2011 Work Day 1. Definition of eternity: waiting for excel to process a 26MB file linked to a 93MB file…
  • Btw I AM clever. Just not with numbers. I’m really stupid with numbers. But good enough with Excel to compensate for the dyscalculia.
  • Thinking of keeping a log for every time I have sex. Does anybody know if an Excel spreadsheet can handle 12 rows of data?
  • I love veg-related Excel spreadsheets almost as much as veg plot plans on PowerPoint. #allotment
  • Finally called the cops to report all my stolen stuff. The old guy was pretty impressed with my Excel spreadsheet that auto-summed the cost.
  • Analyzing Excel spreadsheets, back to work after vacation. Been thinking about this one all break. #fb
  • Firing up Excel to complete a form at work. This feeling- I felt it with Lotus 1-2-3 and COBOL- I’m working in an obsolete technology!
  • My 18page excel spreadsheet of income by city for 2010 is complete and it is so hot! #hotspreadsheet #excelmastermind
  • Ah, and work re-begins. Seriously… 9 days no laptop, no excel, no ppt. Used a PC once for no more than thirty minutes. Fired up for 11!
  • Today I have successfully slayed the Pivot Table dragon. Excel I OWN YOU!! #fb
  • Staring at a blank Excel document, feeling kinda stupid, singing, "ooooooh Exceeeel, how do I use thee!" #windows7
  • We had this same same argument last year "Excel" this year you will kneel before me in submission *sword swishing sounds* !!!

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Excel Twitter 20110104

image Anyone can use Excel, even a handyman or dinosaur. Just remember to pace yourself at the start of the year, when there’s so much work to do, and you’re still a bit tipsy.

  • I still turn to VBA / Excel / Access to solve many a quick and dirty problem. Not sure if I am a dinosaur or a pragmatist. #offmychest
  • 30 Days of Excel Functions OMGGGG πŸ™‚ http://bit.ly/eoirAv
  • Excel spreadsheet. I’ve been using the same one since 2008. New tab for every year. πŸ˜€
  • Dear boss, one of us has to go.. u’ll have to choose now. Excel or myself.
  • screw pivot table. chicken pieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
  • Is there seriously no way to insert a tick/check-mark into an excel spreadsheet? How is that not a symbol option? #fail
  • Engineering handyman. Any kind of problem-solving necessary. Mostly creating Excel models.
  • Struggling with Excel Pivot Tables for a change. I know I used to know how to make these.
  • First work day of the year…went to my desk…opened up my poker client and my excel…stared at it for half a minute and logged off
  • I’m in love with Microsoft Excel. Great work Bill Gates.
  • Having a not so exciting day working on pivot tables in Excel. So boring, at least I don’t have to do this every day (or ever again I hope!)
  • Note To Self: Excel is EVEN LESS FUN when you’re tipsy. #omgyawn
  • Just made a spreadsheet (still hate Excel) of all the stuff ive ordered and am waiting for. Gotta stop spending!
  • New Years is so much work…excel sheets, accounting, mail management, insurance., taxes…everything has to be updated.
  • excel worksheet ing the next couple months of my life. Sigh.
  • my eyes hurt after looking at a stupid computer screen all day, and i hate microsoft Excel with a passion!
  • Oh crap. I owe boss work. Anyone knows excel can help? :)))
  • Teachin’ my Dad how to work with Ms.Excel. Oh God, I must extra patient to do this! Aw!

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Excel Twitter 20110103

image Over the weekend, people used Excel to wrap up 2010, and get ready for 2011. The bravest ones helped their family members too! Maybe we’ll all have assistants next year, or some beer, to make the work easier.

  • Cracked a beer & an Excel spreadsheet. It’s time to budget for 2011! Yep, another wild Saturday night for me.
  • Zero motivation to do this Excel work. *yawns*
  • The longer I work on this spreadsheet the more baffled I get. Spreadsheet, why have you turned against me?
  • *sigh* This spreadsheet is work, but it makes me feel useful. #PLProject
  • Think tomorrow i’m going to start to organize some of these upcoming projects into a spreadsheet since they all won’t shut up πŸ™‚
  • the textbook didn’t explain anything about Pivot Table! >:/
  • I’ve done more work on this very complex, cacophonous excel spreadsheet that details my future plans than i have at work in 6 months.
  • only day that I concentrate on an excel spreadsheet (with my bowl picks). Thought you would appreciate. Happy new year.
  • Next is the fun task of entering it all into a spreadsheet. How daunting
  • Nothing screams "it’s a Sunday fun day" more than cracking out the Excel spreadsheet for a bit of Type A personality cataloguing.
  • Using Excel makes me feel importent and perplexed
  • it never ceases to amaze me what my Mom can do to a spreadsheet and then have no recollection of how it got that way #techsupport4life
  • Doin’ some of Papa’s Excel work for him. He only slept for three hours today. He was up all night doing this. =(
  • Putting 2011 stuff into its own Excel Workbook time
  • I just got REALLY excited at an Excel shortcut I (accidentally) learned. Hey you would too if it made you work faster!
  • Helping the missus with an Excel problem, got it working, she accidentally lost it in a crash, and now the same formula give v. diff results
  • I need an assistant to do all my excel work on computer for me im not that high up to totem pole yet though lol
  • Why did i ever think conditional formatting in an Excel spreadsheet was a GOOD idea?? [shoots Excel]

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Excel Twitter 20110101

image Happy New Year! Wishing you a colour-coded year with no evil spreadsheets, and plenty of VLookups and other sexy formulas.

  • you know you secretly love excel. especially vlookups.
  • instead of having kids, we do something abstract with excel? it’s just stupid.
  • Worked out, did laundry, cleaned apt, created a 2011 Excel budget, did work and paid off every cent of credit cards. Productive morning.
  • I still hate Excel. Why do "freeze" and "split" not work on this column?
  • My BF made me a custom excel chart that graphs my running progress. I consider this a major win (No offense RunKeeper)
  • Organizing all the work I’ve done for my parents into excel spreadsheets. <3 love, love, LOVE spreadsheets.
  • Well after spending the majority of the morning looking at #Excel and #Word documents, I believe I should be a #Microsoft techie! New job??
  • Under 3K corrections identified with the evil spreadsheet. I may do a toe dance soon. #amediting #amwriting
  • just planned out 2011 in a color-coded Excel spreadsheet so I am now feeling good about the new year rolling in. ha.
  • Boss wana send me for excel program!
  • Mr AIO is such a nerd. He’s sitting next to me fiddling around with formulas in some Excel spreadsheet. Why do I find it HAWT! #nerdsaresexy
  • When writing a book, it’s better to actually type words than to make excel charts about your slowly growing word count. #notest
  • Um, hey, why does X twitch in his sleep? "He…he spent three hours with a bar chart in Excel, back in the war."
  • Fighting charts in Excel…
  • An OCD’s private little hell: seeing a formatting error on a password-locked spreadsheet.

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Excel Twitter 20101231

image Who crashes more often — a ski bunny or an Excel bunny? It might be safer to stick to grocery shopping, or working in bed.

  • Working in bed. Not nearly as exciting as it sounds- Unless you love Excel just that much.
  • Ski bunny? Better than Spreadsheet Bunny. Vale Bunny over Excel Bunny any day.
  • My crazy huge 2000 line, 7 workbook data tracking Excel spreadsheet is now over 12mb and takes forever to save… time to optimize!
  • I save the spreadsheet for more exotic things. Like groceries. The fonts I use for rice give me shivers. #oooh #mmmm
  • Funny how work doesn’t seem to suck so much when you know it’s only one day. Sadly it will ba one dayy of staring at excel files πŸ™
  • I’ve had a very good day of wedding browsing online today. That along with the wedding spreadsheet means everything is on course.
  • damn you excel and your stupid, horrible ways!
  • I love excel, I really do, but I despise it for taking away the joys of using highlighter pens. #toomuchtimeintheoffice
  • Attempting to map human history from 10000BC to now on an excel spreadsheet.
  • Umpteenth game of Cluedo. I LOATHE this game. Sister’s husband playing with help of an Excel spreadsheet. That IS cheating, right?
  • I love my iPad. I have not touched my laptop all day. I think the only reason I need it is for Excel. @iPad
  • Pivot tables, yes but not macros. I wouldn’t think of using Excel for anything else other than for work, really!
  • Playing around with an Excel spreadsheet and somehow I am +2 days over what I am actually coming up with.
  • Way over my head, I think. I’m having trouble just not screwing up the spreadsheet.lol
  • I made a tool in Excel! So simple yet beautiful. I love making tools.
  • I cant express to you how much I love budgeting. Ive already got 2011’s plan on a perfectly organized Excel document!
  • Glad to be leaving work on time. I never want to see an Excel worksheet again! I need a long computer break.
  • The harder I try to finish my Excel spreadsheet, the more it decides it wants to crash. For an inanimate object it know how to mess me up!

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Excel Twitter 20101230

image A day in Excel leads to screaming, craps, glitter and forehead smacks. And you think that your family is odd!

  • It’s as if someone looked at the excel spreadsheet and said, "If only I had just one more color to get my point across…"
  • I need to figure out some way to embed a forehead smack in an Excel spreadsheet. It would come in *real handy* for this heuristic review.
  • Filling out an Excel questionnaire with 8 million workbook tabs each requesting a tiny bit of information. WTF question people? #stabby
  • *screaming* I hate excel! Ok I’m done back to work.
  • MS #Excel 2007’s Format as Table feature make me feel so productive and classy when I’m making reports. Woot. #workmode
  • I’m going to start using ‘dreadsheet’ to explain every excel spreadsheet I have to deal with in work. I hate excel.
  • I use excel, the problem I find is that I forget to update it and then I get confused!
  • turns out statistical analysis with #excel isn’t that bad after all…when your #data is #flawed anyway. #HappyGoLucky
  • I cannot fathom how MS keeps making Excel charts worse with each new version. I expect crayons & glitter next.
  • Just published an article that includes VBA code implementing Craps in Excel. Not to worry – no mention of "craps."
  • Dear boss’s boss: if you want me to crunch numbers, i need them in excel, not pdf.
  • Have been working on stupid stats for my dad all day! Takes 1/2 an hour to do one days worth, I have two months worth to put into excel! FML
  • I’ve been staring @ this blank excel spreadsheet titled "budget" for @ least 30 minutes now… *le sigh*
  • Holy cats I actually got #excel to work on the first try! This is an accomplishment of monumental proportions for me. #warrior #awesome
  • Careful lying about Excel. I got caught in that once. They gave me a test. Stupid pivot tables.
  • My family is odd: where else would you need to create and present a PowerPoint or Excel spreadsheet to prove your point in an argument?
  • Wow, I just installed a program on my iPad that was just too ugly to use. A spreadsheet should not feel like Tron.
  • My excel worksheet ain’t making any sense to me LOL.
  • Officer I was not texting! Working on an Excel spreadsheet! Honest!

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Excel Twitter 20101229

image Ah, Spreadsheet Wasteland…where you tear your hair out, while boiling eggs and tracking stupid calls.

  • Excel skills deteriorate over time if not used. I’ve forgotten 2/3 of the crapola I knew 10 years ago.
  • i can’t get my excel to work!!
  • Minor annoyance to me: when people only use one spreadsheet in Excel and don’t delete the two extra default ones.
  • I just did my budget worksheet on excel and if I do the right thing I should be ready to purchase #myfirstplace within two years πŸ™‚
  • WHY DO PEOPLE LOVE SENDING EXCEL SHEET ATTACHMENTS SO MUCH?
  • I guess my boss got a subwoofer for xmas, cause the Excel save noise is BOOMING outta his office
  • #excel launched 1000s of startups; justified millions of layoffs; complex securities tht nearly took down an economy http://imrn.me/friJdg
  • I love Math and Microsoft Excel, yay!
  • Problem in Excel 2010. A random occurrence of having all general and number formats on all tabs of a workbook chg to date format while closd
  • Don’t cry…. Don’t raise your eye…. Its Only Spreadsheet Wasteland !!!! #excel #fmfl
  • This spreadsheet "task" (aka hell on earth) is making me want to tear my hair out.
  • I’ve written an equation in a spreadsheet to calculate soft boiled egg cooking times depending on your altitude. At 2000m it’s 6 1/2 mins!
  • It’s strange to go back to Excel 2003 after using 2007 for so long … "What do you mean I have to make 3 clicks for a new worksheet?!?"
  • Resorting to using Numbers where Excel fails. Something seems wrong about this, but it does work rather well.
  • =TEXT(A1, "YYYY-MM-DD") will not work on worksheet where default locale is not English. Why??? #msft #excel
  • They are making us start the stupid call tracking excel spread sheet. This is so silly! But at least not hard.

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Excel Twitter 20101228

image It’s almost the end of the year, and people are using Excel to take stock of the past year, and plan for the new year — even if they’d rather go shopping for a new TV, or tell bad Christmas jokes instead!!

  • Excel 11 columns x 1500 rows done.Tea break now.Staring at the ceiling.Sunlight merging with fluorescent light.10 more hrs at work #fml
  • Ah, just opened Excel for the 1st time after the holidays. Great to back at work!
  • Spent my boxing day reducing a clients slow and unusable 85Mb spreadsheet down to 1Mb. Now got a headache, glad its a bank holiday tomorrow
  • Really did just say to Clare about her finances home spreadsheet – ‘where’s your business continuity plan?’. I really need to get out more!
  • I am an Excel spreadsheet king. But you couldn’t have known that so I forgive you.
  • Excel. Why do some clients think it’s the mutts nuts. Don’t get me wrong, I love it but it’s a case of right tool for the job. No jokes.
  • Okay, time to start my new project: spreadsheet to track what I have in my cupboard (spices, beans, grains, etc).
  • Now I have to write about a spreadsheet and figure out sizes for an airship. I’d actually rather go shopping!
  • Made a Boxing Day Excel spreadsheet to compare widescreen with standard screens. Planning a new TV for the bedroom and a new PC monitor. πŸ˜‰
  • Currently looking at the beginning of the rest of my life… in the form of a spreadsheet.
  • I’m seeking out a system for self betterment. I think this calls for a spreadsheet.
  • I know you’re going to hate me for saying that, but I’m in love with Excel and what it does πŸ™‚
  • Sitting down to the inter-cousin/sibling Christmas spending spreadsheet. The World Bank has seen less complicated transactions.
  • he’s making a list, checking it twice, cleaning the data and making a summary spreadsheet. cause he’s not santa. he’s a contract researcher.
  • Need more processors for that massive Excel spreadsheet that I am doing, maxing out Amazon
  • Dear Excel, If those “minor loss of fidelity” warnings pop up every time I close/save a workbook they start to lose credibility.Thanks, Sara

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Excel Twitter 20101227

image A few people were tweeting about Excel over the weekend, and not surprisingly, some of these tweets were about using Excel for Christmas activities. There were other interesting topics mixed in, like Japanese food, baseball, and haiku. And always remember, Han shot first.

  • It sucks to work on Christmas, but I was behind. Got most of the spreadsheet download code working, but I’m mentally out of gas.
  • Dear Excel,when you offer me a save changes prompt on the 12 sheet workbook I never made any changes in,you scare the daylights out of me.
  • My studies require me to work with computers nearly 24/7, yet Word and Excel scare me to death.
  • Playing Clue[do] with the family. Everyone’s using a spreadsheet. #geeks
  • Don’t tell me you are an ‘advanced’ Excel user & then stare blankly at me when I tell you to do a pivot table. Seriously? #asshat
  • I love the internet, when you have an excel problem, you can be sure someone else had the same issue. Thank you Google!
  • Today is my day off. First thing I do after waking up from an inadequate amount of sleep? Creating an Excel spreadsheet to maximize savings.
  • Excel for non-work is fun. Actually, Excel is fun either way. πŸ™‚
  • I’ve created a food tab on my Japan holiday spreadsheet. Suggestions welcome.
  • We created a spreadsheet that computs all the scoring for contract wisk. You know I’m on a computing degree….
  • just used pen and paper in 30 minutes to solve an excel spreadsheet problem that i’ve spent hours on. I feel like the bizarro Neo.
  • so i color-code my draft excel. make bad things red – dunn’s batting average, jeter’s age, &c. got to nick johnson. just made his name red
  • the boss approaches/I prepare my excel sheet/looking hard at work
  • What did I do at work all day?? Looking up how to spice up excel charts…
  • Just discovered Shift-F2 adds or edits cell comments in #excel – I do love a good keyboard shortcut.
  • Excel does spider charts, who knew…
  • Christmas traditions: Safeway apple fritter -> Dim Sum -> espresso -> yell "Han shot first!" at TV -> work on damn spreadsheet book
  • Wow, I didn’t realize how much I had missed #MSFT #Excel. Girlfriend gave me Office 2011 for Mac. Sorry Google Docs; you’re out!
  • I made a pivot table yesterday! Are you proud? πŸ™‚

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Excel Twitter 20101225

image Merry Christmas! Maybe you’re at work today, or at home, and trying to get away from the festivities for a few minutes. For your entertainment, here are a few Christmas themed Excel tweets — you’re not the only one who thinks that Excel and Christmas were made for each other!

  • Right. Commencing the final wrapping phase. This involves a spreadsheet, as do so many tasks in my life.
  • Too right matey just found those excel games from about 8 years ago remember them thats my work for today Haha
  • Thank you Greg… actually I DO have a spreadsheet called "presents.xlsx" πŸ™‚
  • The spreadsheet to plan tomorrow’s dinner has come out. Christmas has officially started chez Yau.
  • So, you can make Chloropleth maps in Excel. I’m going to have fun at work over Xmas!!! :oD
  • BTW, I use an excel spreadsheet I made 15 years ago. Seems to work.
  • In true geek form I am working out my timing spreadsheet right now!
  • #Christmas music getting me thru a day of Excel spreadsheets….and the money I’ll get in 2.5 hours…..
  • so my excel spreadsheet of Christmas gifts & costs proves to me that starting shopping in September is the best fiscal idea I ever had
  • The never-ending excel spreadsheet, right before the holidays, huh? *right-click, delete*. Sorry, boss!
  • I love Christmas. No phone calls in work…just festive music, Excel quizzes and free breakfast off the boss!
  • Hard to get in to the Christmas spirit when I’m sat in an office trying to work out why an Excel macro isn’t working properly. Festive.
  • Baby, It’s Cold Outside was the perfect Pandora seed for Excel work this morning.
  • I’ve picked books to read through Christmas this year. One is a book on excel pivot table! It still puts me in a bind sometimes.

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Excel Twitter 20101224

image It’s finally Christmas Eve! Even the most devoted Excel users might take the next day or two off, and step away from their computers. Happy holidays!

  • Suspect that polar bear wrestling may be easier than getting this bloody spreadsheet to work.
  • Tackling an Excel spreadsheet/workbook this afternoon….long overdue but must be done before the end of the year. Lucky me! πŸ™‚
  • A cup of avocado juice & Excel worksheet.
  • I just calculated ingredients for making 60 mince pies on a spreadsheet. When did I become this type of person?
  • House smells like #bathandbody tis the season candle and I’m getting a much dreaded spreadsheet project going. #xmaseveevework
  • disproved the urban myth that there are really only 50 Christmas songs. Thank you, iTunes playlists (and Excel pivot tables).
  • Only way to get through spreadsheet report is with Bob Dylan Christmas album. Different!
  • Finally solved zip code prob & all it took was Wikipedia,a map,excel,Google docs,magpie,mySQL,and 35 lines of PHP.On that note,XMAS BREAK!
  • I had an excel spreadsheet for calculating my wife’s alcohol consumption with graphs & everything #NotWorthIt #XA
  • can’t wait to "pivot" from playing with option pool in excel to drinking margaritas in the pool… two days to go.
  • In bed working on an Excel spreadsheet and menu for January 2011, Scary serious stuff me thinks!!!
  • Love it – wine and whine. Our lot in the food industry this week. My glass getting me thru excel spreadsheets of orders!
  • Two sleeps and one spreadsheet till xmas!
  • Now i’m stuffing my face with Mini Cheddars, staring blankly at a spreadsheet and listening to The Pogues Christmas song.
  • Santa, please send elves who can cook, clean, & wrap gifts. Extra bonus if they are good with Excel and can help out at work too.

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Excel Twitter 20101223

image The Pivot Table Wizard is gone now, so you’ll have to go back to Excel 2003 if you want to see the checkered flag.

  • wow… all this excel vba is coming back to me like leaves on trees! i love it! super fun!!!!
  • What’s some good ass-kicking, yet work appropriate music to listen to? Need something to get me through this Excel project.
  • select multiple cells in excel. press backspace. lock application. lose all work since last save/backup. curse. rinse. repeat.
  • Using Excel to map out a Talking Heads greatest hits CD to see which tracks came from which albums. Will color code cells. #meinananecdote
  • wishing i could work out how to build a florence nightingale-esque rose diagram in excel.
  • The other night, I actually designed a spreadsheet for work while I was asleep…got up, remembered details and created it. #NotNormal
  • Is it possible to get chronic spreadsheet syndrome? Because I think I have it.
  • Had never *Ever* imagined earning my living on #MS #Excel. Used to suck at Maths U knw. Luk at me knw pulling all these numbers outa my ass!
  • There is a racing car flag in the pivot table dialogue box. What is the connection between Microsoft and NASCAR? #excel #pivot_tables
  • In this shop we all do a bit of everything, but today I got asked to fix a lady’s spreadsheet format. I restored Zoom to 100% and sorted!
  • Please don’t touch my spreadsheet that way.
  • 15,672 rows and 41 columns of an Excel workbook later, I can finally get some coffee. #fried
  • really hate shared Excel sheets at work not saving my changes, so it can look like someone else on my team did all the work. RAGE.
  • Reading up on techniques for optimizing Excel workbook calculations. Cuz, you know, that’s a thing I do.
  • I live and die by the sword.Oh, excuse me, that’s a typo. I live and die by the spreadsheet.
  • still think the spreadsheet is the most amazing piece of software ever written #visicalc #excel #lotus123
  • What? Play with excel AND get paid for it? Work loves me!

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Excel Twitter 20101222

image A dog, a dork or a hammer — only one of these can plan your Christmas dinner, trim the tree, and calculate builder payments — all in Excel.

  • When all you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. When what you have is Excel, every answer is a pivot table.
  • Just finished planning Xmas dinner in Excel. I have an oven temp graph, expense summary in a pivot table and a meal prep flow chart.
  • Going to attempt to learn how to write macros for #Excel using Visual Basic tonight. Not sure how it is going to go. Any advice?
  • all i want to do is send this spreadsheet to my mom but every time i open excel it crashes. #ihavetheworstluck
  • yay! successfully created gender demographic chart by my own using excel !! tried searching from office tutorial, there’s none! #officefail
  • There is an actual bug inside my computer screen, I can see it wandering around on my spreadsheet!
  • If the dog or cats could work Excel, you wouldn’t need to be working, you’d just put them on TV!
  • who says excel isn’t fun?! RT @contextures: Trim the Christmas tree with #Excel scroll bar (no macros) http://goo.gl/zazDa
  • Obligatory airport scene: Man in a suit working on an Excel spreadsheet in a Thinkpad.
  • Also, my dad is a dork. He has tracked all of his workouts over the last 7 years on an Excel spreadsheet apparently.
  • There are times that I love the little things in Excel…
  • Wrapping up Christmas gifts and doing an Excel spreadsheet to highlight the costs per person. God, I love a good spreadsheet.
  • I refuse to do manually what I can automate. #excel
  • doing a spreadsheet of builder payments at 6am. the things we’ll find ourselves doing when we’ve been awake since 4am. :S
  • Another work pet peeve: just cause I fix your computer doesn’t mean I’m your personal assistant with Excel related tasks. Easy ones at that.
  • I abhor this noddy Excel work with a passion.
  • You two make me want to barf with your love for #excel
  • So Excel can be pretty awesome. Falling in love with pivotTable.

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Excel Twitter 20101221

image The holiday season is stressful enough — don’t move the shared Excel file! Oh, and don’t use shared workbooks.

  • I’ve been bested by a spreadsheet. I think I have algo-arrhythmia.
  • Hoping desperately that the horrid Excel spreadsheet will actually be completed in my absence.
  • I saved the excel spreadsheet but I’ll be damned if I can find it on my PC now
  • I once received a map with directions inside an Excel spreadsheet. I skipped that party on principle
  • It was important that I made that Excel spreadsheet. Needed a visual understanding of how late this book is.
  • you’re complex BJ. You’re like a pinot noir… An excel spreadsheet on april 13th.. my phone bill.. Politics in Iran…
  • How to Reveal Implicit Structure in Spreadsheets: http://www.j-paine.org/dobbs/structure_discovery.html . Making "legacy" Excel readable.
  • Doing an exceptionally dull spreadsheet based job today… please amuse me prank monkeys!!!
  • Getting this wedding planning started! Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint started, wedding show trip planned…next step-dress shopping!
  • Am watching bad movies while I work on a (reasonably monotonous) Excel project.
  • I should be working on excel bar charts, instead I’m considering my 2011 resolutions. I’d like them to actually mean something this year.
  • who moved the freaking excel file? it’s a shared workbook, you’re not supposed to do things that would affect other ppl’s usage.
  • Its made me smile how the resident manager thinks me a genius for fixing his excel sheet right to left problem
  • I like Excel. But I wish the idiosyncrasies of a piece of code didn’t deduct points from my "competent at teaching" score.

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Excel Twitter 20101220

image How was your weekend? Did your Excel workbooks help with the Christmas planning and best album charting? Or were you driven insane by Excel’s crashes and beach balls? Hmmm…from the end, a beach ball looks just like a pie chart!

  • I love using excel to make things easier to visualize and understand! (p.s. i just cut someones process time from 2 hrs to 20-30 minutes)
  • did I break the server? All I wanted to do was "save" an Excel spreadsheet :/
  • Friday evening on to some galactic excel spreadsheet action and extremely glad there’s cold beer in the office fridge #now
  • As soon as Excel stops beach balling I’m going to save my last hour of work.
  • excited about having family in our home all week! I made a spreadsheet of each day’s menu & possible fun activities w the kids #typeAwannabe
  • PERFECT WAY TO PROCRASTINATE: make a massive bowl spreadsheet in excel. looks like i am crunching huge amounts of data. #nooneknowsthetruth
  • Re-discovered an amazing Excel spreadsheet I programmed last year! Simple, yet remarkably useful πŸ™‚ #ILoveProgramming
  • Day two of working with a huge excel spreadsheet. Number of times computer crashed (just today) = 3 Number of curse words uttered = 843
  • Dear Excel and my crappy work network. Please stop having ugly, time consuming tantrums complete with silent games.
  • The Christmas Excel spreadsheet is getting too big for my liking…
  • I’m updating the Excel spreadsheet that tells me which #StarWars books I need to buy and where they’re cheapest. Yep, that much of a nerd.
  • Whew~! Spent almost the whole day creating & coding stupid excel file for accounts stuff. Blah I hate copy&paste… Aching fingers!! #fb
  • I am currently being driven insane by #excel 2007
  • So that’s what you’re supposed to use Excel for. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/chart-the-best-albums-of-2010/
  • Excel spreadsheet formula that worked so beautifully yesterday, why do you now forsake me?
  • I can’t find any compelling arguments that MS Excel (or any spreadsheet) is Turing complete. Any thoughts?
  • This Excel workbook is destorying my will to live.

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Excel Twitter 20101218

image To work in Excel you just need common sense, and a box of crayons. And it’s too late to send those international holiday cards, so just step away from the spreadsheet.

  • I hate excel…I changed one thing now I have to change a whole worksheet
  • Holy pivot tables. By the end of today I will be an Excel god. My brain hurts.
  • European addresses stress me out. I don’t know where to put what in excel for mail merge with US addresses. #holidaycardstress
  • I hate excel, I hate budgets, I hate the net at work, I hate the stupid system. I’m ready for the week-end and a holiday.
  • sometimes when you encounter the spreadsheet-as-database-horror, you just suck it up and deal
  • If I look at this VBA code for Excel any longer, I won’t just lose my sanity, I’ll lose my will to live and run screaming into the night
  • Imagine if Excel’s formula bar were instead a Wolfram Alpha bar & even your mom could automate her work. You on this @stephen_wolfram?
  • You are about to embark on a journey. A journey to edit this spreadsheet. Please prepare yourself.
  • To clarify I meant "strategy, THEN creativity." Not that one is better. Although crayons are clearly better than Excel charts πŸ™‚
  • New problem, international excel settings seriously altering dashboard publications. #FRIDAYFUN
  • Just found out that the spell checker is disabled when you protect a worksheet in #Excel!
  • Yes! Christmas card list discovered as a rather sad spreadsheet on my laptop. Didn’t know I’d be that organised/bored last year to do that
  • I dunno what the hell happened to me, but I have fallen hopelessly in love with Excel spreadsheets. Want to make one for everything!
  • reading about a million requirements in an excel spreadsheet. Some people think my work is glamorous. it is not.
  • Step away from that Excel worksheet, and you won’t get hurt.
  • Thanks to my obsessive use of ExCel to chart Christmas, I can confirm that I have in fact spent more on presents this year than last year.
  • Still at work. Trying to make an auto-updating #Excel file play nice with an auto-updating #PowerPoint file. MS could’ve made it easier.
  • Remind me that it doesn’t take a math whiz to work in excel. Just common sense

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Excel Twitter 20101217

image Wow, that guy is lucky! We didn’t have calculators when I was in 7th grade. Well, at least not the kind that kids were able to lift, or carry in their pockets.

  • I use Excel to concatenate geeky code streams. May I join your club?
  • Did a rather complex Excel Pivot Table reading MySQL database. Not too bad. A little bit brilliant too. Feeling good. #work
  • Pivot tables are a pain and I’ve only DABBLED with them at work. Yeah that was awesome "We need this sheet with pivot table in 5."
  • I’ll see your conditional formatting and raise you 4 pages of vlookups a pivot table.
  • that’s it, Excel. i’m bringing my TI-89 circa 7th grade to work from now on.
  • Always model as if the guy who ends up maintaining your spreadsheet will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
  • Stupid, useless, never let’s you do what you want excel #ihateexcel
  • The FSA fine is very embarrassing for Aegon. Wonky spreadsheet used from 1997 cost customers Β£7m. Excel fail http://tinyurl.com/3ajfzxq
  • Excel just lost 3 days of work… I am on vacation in a day… do I cry now? #doingitalready #cantevenshootexcel #stupidprogram
  • Working at a very small museum means u can blow everyone’s mind just by making a pivot table.
  • So I’m cleaning out my downloads folder and I come across an Excel spreadsheet with broccoli prices from 1950-today. #WTF
  • never thought i would be doing work for my dad in #excel i hate it :/
  • attempts to explain onion dip on laptop to her boss and throws back Excel pivot table* #partyprepfight
  • Minor work panic has been sorted with a spreadsheet. I’ve now become one of ‘those people’ that solves problems with Excel. #loser
  • I knew it waas time for me to return to work when I found myself creating excel spreadsheets for presents…
  • Took 8 hours of Excel classes, and just did a months worth of work in 20 minutes. Awesome!
  • I actually said out loud "score" after solving an Excel problem…

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Excel Twitter 20101216

image I wonder what candle scent would be best when working on an ammo pricing Excel sheet, or a meaningless chart.

  • I asked our IT teacher if I can go for just 15 minutes to donate my blood and she said NO "Excel" is important XD
  • Oversized sweater. Puffy socks. Cinnamon candles. Fireplace. Home Alone. Hot cocoa. 1 ink pen. 1 excel spreadsheet.
  • today is a day of pointless data entry on an excel spreadsheet! joy
  • Almost forgot how much I hate creating meaningless charts in Excel. Training in creating salary systems suddenly reminded me. #meaningoflife
  • is enjoying the #excel feature allowing data connections -> pulling data from an HTML table and formatting it sensibly!!!
  • I just deleted hours worth of work on excel, somebody get me a drink!
  • I love that my shooting buddy sent me an excel sheet of ammo prices so I can buy in bulk. Always looking out for me.
  • HELP! "’cannot shift objects off sheet" – what have I done in #Excel to get this message when I try to insert a row?
  • A great open-source way of interacting with Excel 2007 documents from .Net – http://bit.ly/dmBWG9 #csharp #dotnet #excel #awesome
  • πŸ™‚ Playing with #Excel. It’s not that hard, after all!
  • So I "deleted" a lot of empty cells in my spreadsheet and it went from 3 mb to 50 kb #wtf #emptyornotempty #excel
  • Excel is clearly out to make me look stupid by breaking Fill Down.
  • Today I am going to mostly be making things up. But my creations will go into a pivot table, so… every cloud.
  • Beating my head on my desk over this stupid presentation and how I can’t get the formatting to work. I HATE YOU EXCEL! And Power Point.
  • There is no problem I can’t solve with conditional formatting in Excel. I once stopped a hail of bullets by hiding all duplicate values.
  • Wheew, 3 hours later I’ve successfully created 2 pie charts in excel. That really put a wrench in my afternoon to-do list.
  • need to write an email teaching a database guy how to remove a filter from an Excel worksheet. #justwow

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Excel Theatre 20101215

image Be careful when working with pivot tables! They can turn your world 2 dimensional and take over your brain.

  • I wonder if using formulas in an excel spreadsheet for the christmas card list is a tad over the top?
  • If I stare at this spreadsheet hard enough, the numbers will magically appear. Its too much work for magic not to be involved.
  • I need a big old favor….are any of my followers good with excel and math? I need someone to make me a budget worksheet πŸ™‚
  • Living under a flight path only makes u think of all those excel spreadsheet people who’s company’s pay for them to go on pointless trips
  • Shazz has all of our gift plans converted to an excel spreadsheet. He is a geek in a very smart way.
  • i’m going through pivot table hell right now .. my world has turned 2 dimensional with x and y axis’
  • You know studying’s going poorly when you’re excited to take a break to work out an Excel project for 30 minutes. Ugh.
  • instead of going to sleep, i make an excel spreadsheet for my dvds. what does this say about me? #weirdlyorganized #toomanydvds #needsleep
  • deciding how much i should look into #googlerefine to supplement my work in #excel. anyone have first-hand experience? http://bit.ly/ak6gfC
  • My brain is one giant pivot table
  • Is bored and doesn’t want to do that stupid Excel thing >_>
  • Just learnt how to make a pivot table in Excel. Minor achievement or just a bit sad as i feel quite chuffed with my self.
  • Spent Monday night color coding my expenses excel spreadsheet eating favorite red licorice candies from whole foods listening to Xmas carols
  • This spreadsheet is going to blow your mind. I’m going to graph things in three dimensions. I’m going to use colors only bees can see.
  • Some people thrive on making super-fancy looking Excel spreadsheets. I can’t work with fancy! #ReformattingFrustrations
  • an excel spreadsheet sounds boring enough to inspire another Tumbleweed song
  • If you work in accting, the auditors are here & you have enough time to attend a basic Excel class, you probably shouldn’t work in accting
  • I think the guys fell in love with her. She talked real estate and Excel spreadsheets while downing her dinner. They were in awe.

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Excel Twitter 20101214

image There’s more and more Christmas chat in Twitter, and Excel is helping us get ready. Now I have to go and knit a nice spreadsheet for my sister.

  • Filled in my Christmas budget spreadsheet. Being an adult stinks.
  • Can’t believe this course references #excel 2003. 2 releases behind!! Should I really be expecting more from a uni.
  • Made homemade volleyball charts…using excel!
  • Draft excel done. Exciting times. She who rules the excel spreadsheet rules the world
  • Starting work on my comedy database, might be the 1st time Excel has been involved in comedy. N.B. I didn’t say successful comedy πŸ˜€
  • Note to self: Never agree to build complex simulations in Excel/VBA. Not even when "it’s just a prototype"…
  • Remember that I used to color all graphs and charts in my exercise book at school. Now doing the same in Excel… #wasteoftime or #design ?
  • Wrapping presents, ticking them off in excel. :O) There had to be a spreadsheet involved somewhere, right ;O)
  • you have an excel spreadsheet for packing? I like you even more now!
  • No time for knitting – suppose my loved ones would like a nice hand-crafted spreadsheet? #fb
  • Where would we be w/o Microsoft #Excel? Really. I can’t do without it. I can’t use the online apps. Plus they don’t have pivot tables.
  • Don’t ever question my Excel chart-making game. #datamagician
  • Learning new things in Excel. It must be true, you can never stop learning excel. Still, I’m beyond pivot tables, now learning magic tricks.
  • email title: "Last Christmas" – Content? an excel sheet… my Christmas is all about work πŸ™
  • My spreadsheet failings almost made me toss my lappy across the room, until I realized I’d been dividing by 120 instead of 210. superfail.
  • I just realize that, on the worksheet you can not rearrange the columns and fields as easily compared to the pivot table.
  • true story– called my dad and asked him what he wanted for xmas– he told me he would email his gift list– it was an excel spreadsheet-
  • Day 1 with Excel 2010: I think I’m in love.

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Excel 20101213

image Hugs, drinks, fill handles, colour coded Christmas lists — these are things that made the weekend better for some Excel users.

  • I’ve been entering data into an excel spreadsheet for the past three hours. I need a hug. Or a drink. Or both.
  • Learning #Excel macro writing on my own via Google search isn’t fun, but it’s a total rush when I figure out the answer!
  • Sick kids…. man I might have welcomed the early leave from work except I was in the zone. Me and #excel were makin magic! O well.
  • My Mom calls me at work, from work: "So, I’m in Excel…" My co-workers think it’s hysterical.
  • I’m at a loss for it, makes no sense…excel chart coming.
  • The modern equivalent of the little black book is probably something in the lines of an excel spreadsheet.
  • Won’t be moving to Office:mac 2011. You can’t use "pixels" to set width in Excel.. how unnatural #mac #office #microsoft #excel #apple
  • Tryin to eat healthier so I DL a free excel spreadsheet- wkly meal planner. Let’s see how long I can stick to it. Lol
  • Ha! I totally just used Excel to make a spreadsheet of our XMAS list & then color coded it lol….Everything is better in color!! πŸ˜€
  • Good resource for Excel pivot tables http://www.pivot-table.com/
  • Problem with putting bank statements in Excel is you realise how much you spend on certain things
  • So amazed by the injury analysis worksheet the work experience kid made on Excel. 15 years old!
  • This training is boring but Excel 2010 is going to kick ass. I predict a much more efficient work day….just one day, mind you πŸ˜€
  • LOL the only thing grandpa can pump out is a budget spreadsheet πŸ™‚ Beautiful apps are made by hungry 18 y.o. that want a buck!
  • Finally. I found where they hide those colory, styly thingies. It’s in "Cell Styles". Phew, that took me like 8 years. #Excel
  • When I get frustrated at work explaining the digital camera/Excel/THE INTERNET, I remember my future kids will mock me for similar reasons.
  • I love getting halfway through working with a spreadsheet only to realize I didn’t configure it right. Why doesn’t Excel read my mind?
  • I just discovered the Fill Handle feature in Excel, and now my life looks brighter. I *know* my weekend looks brighter! Thank you, #Excel!
  • So I sat down to do an Excel spreadsheet and I realized that I don’t know how. This is not good.

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Excel Twitter 20101211

image The office air is dry, there’s no T, and the Excel formulas don’t work. We should have some pie, and slack off for the rest of the day.

  • The air in my office is so dry, I am afraid I will dehydrate. While working on an Excel spreadsheet. What a way to go! #thirsty
  • it was awesome until pivot tables didn’t work. Keep getting "error occurred" while loading a sheet with a pivot table.
  • Try this website: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/ChartIndex.html#Pie
  • Can’t believe i finished doing my stupid excel database before i even finish my bk breakfast! I want to slack for the rest of the day!
  • I work with technology every day. Excel pivot tables still baffle me.
  • I am in work, updated an Excel spreadsheet while listening to Madeleine Peyroux quite loud. Thug Life.
  • I took your advice and created an Excel spreadsheet for my Christmas shopping….very helpful. Props to you. πŸ™‚ haha
  • This is why I hate Excel and finance. Spreadsheet I’ve been working on for two days…I just copied and pasted over ALL the data! I go cry!
  • I printed out an excel spreadsheet I made to use for the Nell event while I collect Christmas socks.
  • loved how I’M taking reading material for MY Doctor this morn, along with my spreadsheet of info. Wish I wasn’t such a Type A at times!!
  • Are those Managers, who delegate their work called, Excel-lent?
  • I know it should, but an online pivot table just doesn’t do it for me. #notthatgeeky
  • I do my charts in Excel, then take them into Illustrator and vectorize them.
  • If you can’t find Excel on the lab computer, you shouldn’t be in an advanced pivot table class.
  • I have minions for that. Okay, so i don’t actually have minions, we have an Excel guru. And i don’t ever actually need pivot tables.
  • I am slowly turning into a giant human Excel Spreadsheet … All Excel and no play makes Paul a =SUM($C$4:$C$55)/(LEN(F4)-100)….
  • Stupid Excel keeps returning me a VALUE! error. MY FORMULA IS CORRECT, YOU.. PROGRAM, YOU!
  • The letter t won’t work in excel. Somethings telling me it’s hometime soon…

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Excel Twitter 20101210

imageYeah, those macros that close a workbook can be hard to debug, if you aren’t paying attention. Maybe you should keep the door closed, to spare your co-workers’ ears, while you deal with that shizz.

  • I. Hate. Excel. And yet I sadly see it’s value. Too bad I’ve gotta learn like half a semester’s worth of work by Friday night…
  • Some of those graphics are truly beautigul. Put my Excel pie charts to shame. Sigh.
  • #Excel is definitely not the tool of choice for many things for me. These marketing macro powered Excel sheets really drive me nuts.
  • hi. my excel doesn’t work /deathglare
  • Hmm… some funny business going on in this spreadsheet, but I’ll deal with that shizz tomorrow. Laterz tweeps.
  • why need a separate mockup tool when you can create wireframes in excel with native support for charts/data visualization
  • I think if I could sing at work my excel spreadsheets would be a lot more exciting. Don’t worry, I’ll keep to door closed.
  • Today, I showed my boss how to use Excel! It was exciting! …kinda shows you how my day went. Plus side,Tomorrow is Salad Bar Day! πŸ™‚
  • When u know all the tricks of working on an Excel spreadsheet, it feels like an adventure! Jump, hop, fly- Work becomes fun!
  • I am thinking about taking an Excel class, so I can stop cursing this stupid program
  • there wasn’t a spreadsheet within 500 yards of it.
  • Microsot Excel and I have developed a new found love for one another… New best friends…. who would’ve ever thought? ha
  • Learned new acronym whilst delivering Excel training today – Problem with PC/program? Could be PICNIC (Person In Chair Not In Computer)
  • is building an insane to do list management workbook in excel. #excelispowerfulifyouknowhowtouseit
  • .. developers can write code to run Excel calculations on a HPC cluster.. Why would I want to do this again? #hpc #fail #excel #microsoft
  • Yes! Excel’s being friendly πŸ™‚ I love it when cell AX138 doesn’t throw me into a circular reference for no reason. Ok, need to get out more.
  • THe problem with debugging an Excel macro that’s supposed to close the workbook is that it closes the damn workbook(not when it should have)

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Excel Twitter 20101209

image Constantly resizing the Excel rows and columns isn’t a sign of OCD, and it’s perfectly normal to work on a spreadsheet in the middle of the night. I hope!

  • totally rocked an #if statement in #excel. haven’t done that since #college.
  • I working in excel whilst my boss listens to Mumford & Sons…it reminds me of a…different time & place. I had more milkshakes back then.
  • graphing scatterplots in excel like boss. man, i love sitting next to smart people in confusing classes.
  • Spreadsheets meet family recipes http://bit.ly/hhKpSK #Accountant doing cool things with #Excel
  • The standard and preferred tools of the #AccidentalAnalyst #Excel, #PowerPoint, #Tableau #Access & great stories about their business data.
  • Just spent an hour building an elaborate pivot table report and now excel can’t open the file. Really?
  • Excel VBA and I have a love hate relationship today!
  • Between 4am and 6am I couldn’t sleep. So I did what most men would do, I made an Excel spreadsheet … #LifeFAIL
  • Lacking the motivation and imagination to make the spreadsheet tell me what I want to hear.
  • OH the irony of Excel’s autosave for autorecover actually causing me to lose my work. Not working as intended I’d say…
  • Chatting Excel Pivot Tables on the way 2 date night #DateNightSuccess (seriously)
  • I’m failing at everything today. Bah. Going to spend the afternoon making pretty charts in excel, because I know I can do that.
  • Damn you Massachusetts for having a zero at the start of your zip code! MS Excel always cuts off the first zero on address labels.
  • I’m spending far too much time and effort on this spreadsheet for the tip system at work. I wish I got paid overtime for it all…
  • Just realized I have another OCD behavior…every time I open an Excel file I resize the columns and rows to match the content size.
  • Searching for a spreadsheet….can’t remember where I dumped it.
  • Off to do the dreaded Christmas Shopping. Have created a spreadsheet so I can cross off who I’ve bought for and not forget anyone πŸ˜›
  • Work would be so much easier if i was an excel genius… spend so much trying to figure stuff out

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Excel Twitter 20101208

image Those "Aha!" moments are great — like when you realize you can reuse your code of a poker analysis, or use a smaller font.

  • Trying to remember Excel algorithms while listening to "Hounds of Love." =SUM(Steps on the water * 2)+(Oh oh oh * 3)
  • Dear Microsoft Excel, I hate you and the stupid rainbow pinwheel of death you keep flashing on my screen every time I try to use you!
  • 65,536. The end of an Excel spreadsheet. Obviously a slow day at work…
  • I swear this place is so backwards sometimes. Just spent an hour formatting an excel spreadsheet into a bar graph. With Format Cell > color.
  • I love those "Aha" moments, like today’s: I could write a program to do that, or I could just make a quick Excel sheet and be done with it.
  • Oh Microsoft Excel, why must you recalculate my formula-intensive spreadsheet every time I apply a filter? No data changed!
  • reformatting a badly formatted spreadsheet has me stumped. I hate Microsoft Excel with a passion.
  • Excel spreadsheet + Limp Bizkit = I can actually stand working in Excel.
  • I just made the most amazing Excel chart to manage my money. Pretty impressed with myself
  • After spending WAY too much time trying to get this spreadsheet to work right, I have decided to go "old school!" I miss my pen & paper πŸ™‚
  • Spent all morning fixing a spreadsheet of mine that someone messed up. Please don’t break my links! #excel
  • Most of the mornings work hangs on the balance as my #microsoft #excel is hanging. Don’t know what to do. Hope it fixes itself
  • I am taking an all day Excel training class for work. I may just die of boredom.
  • Excel, because now my boss pays me extra to make her spreadsheets.
  • made some pretty excel charts via VBA today. Will defo be reusing the code in my poker analyser.
  • i wonder how I’ll flawlessly print an Excel worksheet
  • uff…."Computing I" – how to print an #Excel-Document: "press the print button" – wow! And this is a #masters #lecture… #fb
  • at the risk of sounding like a complete loser, i must admit tt when faced w a pile of work & crazy jetlag, excel really calms me
  • So. Please tell me why I can’t load a 73 MB spreadsheet on a 4 GB box? Ah. I needed to use a smaller font.

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