Well, I should have been working all day, but decided to take a bit of time to relax and catch up on some reading (of RSS feeds). At the Lost in Technology blog, was a link to XtraNormal, where you can write, cast and direct an animated movie. That sounded like more fun than working,…
Who knew that Dirty Projectors could make music, let alone create lyrics in Excel? This is the kind of startling information that you can learn in Twitter. Other nuggets of knowledge gleaned from this week’s tweets – birthday parties go better with charts, jewelers need Excel, and Excel is psychic. The beer thing, I already…
MacGyver, coffee cake and Klondike bars – Excel goes with everything. There were lots of interesting Excel related tweets this week, as you can see. And no, that wasn’t J-Walk who got the “I Love Excel” mug, but he must have a twin somewhere. Or maybe it was Jon Peltier — it’s his birthday today….
Hold music for Excel? That’s a good idea. Maybe Jon could work on that when he goes on that long vacation. In the meantime, please don’t drink, speak French, and try Excel tongue twisters. Or at least don’t try all at the same time. Thanks for Waiting Working all day on an Excel spreadsheet is…
Blowguns, beer and Excel? I don’t even want to know what that tweet means. There were lots of tweets about Oracle query and the moving mouse, that I first saw mentioned in J-Walk’s spreadsheet blog this week. And there are plenty of people who complain about their bosses and co-workers, and their lack of Excel…
Everything in Excel should be done with one click, GetPivotData is evil, middle management can’t be trusted with colours, and life isn’t fair. These are just a few of the truths revealed in Twitter this week. And remember, even if you’ve used Excel for years, you still might stumble onto an exciting feature you didn’t…
My class ring didn’t feature an Excel pie chart, but I wasn’t an Economics major. Meanwhile, Excel is shifting formulas around, and helping to track some shifty political expenses. And I use VLOOKUP almost every day, but not much call for Proper, Concatenate or Len. Signs of the Apocalypse Class ring arrived today, but I…
Excel goes well with Zombie movies, Greek vases, black holes, and of course, Twitter. But please, use its powers for good, and not for deleting patients, or ruling the world. And if you reach the point that you’re considering strangling someone, just ask yourself, “What would Mr. Spock do?” It’s a Horror Film it’s not…
Do you have dataviz fantasies? Does Excel fulfill them? Would you accept a second date if it asked? Maybe that accountant told a TRIM joke, and that’s why the second date was refused. At least no one is blaming Excel for the swine flu. Yet. Dataviz Fantasies Excel is not fulfilling my dataviz fantasies. Do…
Peach colour Excel forms? I’ve never made one of those, and I’ll assume that you haven’t either. But I have sent screen shots in an Excel file. Is that so wrong? And now that Oprah is on Twitter, maybe she’ll post some pivot table questions. Off the Charts Dear Microsoft, I don’t like the charts…
The big excitement in Twitter this week was the release of SpreadTweet, a Twitter tool that looks like an Excel file. There were a few tweets about Office Palooza, Microsoft’s VBA programming contest, and links to interesting add-ins and Excel related articles. And I didn’t know where Federation Square is – there’s lots to learn…
Concagnate? I guess that’s how concatenate would sound after a few drinks. That must have been a bar in Seattle. I would have guessed a Nanaimo bar, but Ken was busy watching the CMA awards. And speaking of Canadian things — maple wine? I’m not sure about that, even if Excel is involved. I’ll stick…
It’s been a very Excel focussed week in Twitter, but not the spreadsheet kind. The G20 Summit was held at the Excel Centre in London, where protesters gathered, and provoked much security and endless tweets. The UK Excel User Group conference was held nearby, so I hope they weren’t inconvenienced too much. There were a…
Lots of tweets about the Excel Hell video this week. I didn’t find it too funny, but apparently lots of other people did. Apress tweeted about Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups . I did the technical review, and got my copy this week. And I don’t think my kids are bragging…
March Madness, martinis and Excel related injuries. It’s been quite a week for Excel tweeters. I’ll leave it up to you to answer the 3D pie chart question. And I didn’t know that soap whittling was a county fair event, but you learn something every day – especially if you use Excel. The Spice of…
Mmmm…Pi Day. Didn’t see it mentioned in this week’s Excel tweets, but pie charts were discussed. Friday the 13th made an appearance, and there were several comments about Microsoft’s patch that didn’t include an Excel fix. And someone found a pivot table answer on the Contextures web site, so that caught my attention. Now, where’s…
The mayor of Toronto is now tweeting, but nothing about Excel that I’ve seen. Maybe he wasn’t affected by the zero day exploit, and not involved in the Microsoft redundancy payout fiasco. Some people are excited about learning new features in Excel, and a few are looking at replacement software. Others are taking advantage of…
Excel can cure you, or make you sick. It can ruin your social life, or help you find a celebrity match. Candy, fish, beer and movies – Excel can help with almost anything. Just remember, hotties hate Excel, and a geek is cheaper than a book. Excellent Medicine Suffering from Excel myopia. This is a…
VBA provides job security, dads can make charts dance, and read Excel’s messages before you click OK. Those are just a few of the things that Twitter taught me about Excel this week. One tweeter thinks “boys like Excel more than girls”. Hmmm…more than girls like Excel, or more than they like girls? Anyway, who…
This week, people ploughed through their Excel worksheets, ignoring the snow, annoying co-workers, and other distractions. Cells were merged, money disappeared, and flashes of brilliance were displayed. Mr. Spreadsheet offered some advice to Excel Twitterers, to help them have their tweets mentioned here. And I don’t think it sucks to have leet skills. How about…
Excel, chocolate fish or glue gun? Which would you choose? Cabin fever seems to be taking hold on Excel users who Twitter. Their winter-addled brains imagine that Excel is a living, breathing, evil being. But that’s just silly. Excel is a bit cranky sometimes, but it’s not evil. More people must be using Excel 2007,…
It was a week of change in the USA and there were many tweets about that, and some even mentioned Excel. It’s surprising how things are connected in the Twitterverse. Linda Dessau, one of the people whose Excel question I answered in Twitter last week, described the experience in her blog. We’re almost a month…
In this week’s Excel Twitters we learn about fidelity, whiteboards, dads and Slippery Pete. I also discovered that VBA also means “Virtual Bankruptcy Assistant”, whatever that is. It was a long, cold week, but I didn’t see any tweets about people burning their Excel files to stay warm during Thursday night’s lengthy power outage in…
Apparently there was a big event in San Francisco last week, that had something to do with apples. The attendees did lots of tweeting about iWork and Numbers. It’s way better than Excel. Or not. They’re torn. And yes, Dick, I saw your Twitter. Maybe next time you can write an Excel haiku, and I’ll…
Happy New Year! How many New Year’s resolutions involve an Excel spreadsheet? Or tattoos? Or both? And no, I’m not the person who resolves to learn Excel 97. Listening to laundry dry does sound like a nice way to ring in the new year though. I’d never seen a report of the CSV file problem…
It was a quiet week for Excel Twitters, thanks to the Christmas holidays. A few people were still using Excel to help them prepare for Christmas, there was discussion of Excel and finances, and as usual, a few complaints about Excel or its latest version. The oldest version of Excel that I have is 3.0,…
What an interesting week in Excel Twittering! I learned new phrases, discovered tips for getting ahead at the office, and found a way to post my Twitters directly from Excel. Well, from Excel 2003 — the application had some problems in Excel 2007. Now I just have to figure out how that guy predicted the…
You can learn so much about Excel use by reading the Twitters that people post. Eye shadow? Rock Band scores? Comics? Extra cash? Who knew you could use Excel for such diverse tasks? What Would We Do? The first application I used which felt like magic was: Microsoft Office Excel. 2007 Excel BLOWS AWAY 2003….
This week they celebrated Thanksgiving in the USA. Some people were thankful for Excel and its wonderful features. Others, not so thankful. And apparently I’m not the only person who uses Excel for holiday meal planning. This might put a positive spin on pie charts! Mmmm…pumpkin pie. Battles With Excel omg. how did they get…
Answer: Dresses, molasses, puppies and beer. Question: What does Excel make us think of? And I can relate to that “You cannot quit Microsoft Excel” error, since I got it this week too, while using Excel over a Citrix server. The only way you can quit Excel is to disconnect from the server, wait 30…
Another week, another wave of Excel Twitters. It’s always interesting to see what people are up to, using Excel in ways it was never intended. At least one person is hitting the Save button, so that’s an improvement. And I’m pretty sure I know that guy from Columbia, with the Excel questions in FaceBook. Not…
Another week in Twitterville, with the usual whining about Excel crashes and lost data. Here’s a tip — save your work in Excel every 10 minutes. Don’t blame Excel when you lose a day’s work because you never bothered to hit the Save button. Geez. Oh, and Excel comes with a Help file — don’t…
November? How did that happen? Again this week there were lots of tweets about the AC/DC video distributed in an Excel workbook, but I’ll spare you from reading them. There was even a timely USA election related tweet, and I hope it’s the last one for another four years or so! And although I’m a…
The big excitement in Twitter this week is that AC/DC released an ASCII art video that runs within Excel. And what band could be more appropriately named for this type of work? I guess SUM 41 could do an Excel video too. Any others? Anyway, here are some of the interesting Twitters from this week,…
The reformatting error in the infamous Barclays Excel worksheet was the topic of several Twitters this week. There were also suggestions for improving Excel, grumbles, bragging, unusual uses and a couple of interesting quotes. Dear Excel My biggest Excel pet peeve is when the default colors are used in charts. Never have understood why Excel…
I’ve been travelling all week, and am glad to be home again. It’s a long weekend in Canada, with Thanksgiving on Monday, but no twitters about that yet. However, clogging up the Excel Twitter search this week was the Excel Centre in London. This twitter explains it: “Three conferences at the Excel Centre: Web Apps,…