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,…
There was less complaining about Excel than usual this week in Twitter world. Maybe it’s the economy. People are chatting about Excel in the classroom, on the job, at home and even on the subway. And please be careful if you’re ever filling in a paper survey. Thanks! Fun With Charts Working on lesson plans….
Another week in the world of Excel Twitters, with the usual moaning and groaning, and the occasional high five. Innocent children are lured into the scary world of charts and spreadsheets, and Excel is simultaneously creating and solving all the world’s problems. And no, that wasn’t me in the coffee shop. Patiently Waiting downloading the…
As summer comes to an end (well in the Northern Hemisphere), people are huddled over their spreadsheets, assessing their careers, and cooking up plans of world domination, one co-worker at a time. This week’s Twitters show that thoughts have also turned to food and drink, with spreadsheet on the side. A long winter is ahead…
Well, the political conventions are over in the USA, and students are back in school, so people are tweeting about Excel again. There’s lots of talk about training sessions, the usual Excel joys and frustrations, some colourful comments, and a touch of humour. Excel Features Excel’s single most annoying habit – automatically applying text-to-column delimeters…
Thanks to the Republican National Convention, which was held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, there were lots more Excel twitters than usual this week. The first twitter explains the problem. There were also many comments on the new Microsoft ad, featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld at Shoe Circus. Hidden among…
There were more Excel Twitters than usual this week, and some of that was thanks to Dick Kusleika, who decided to record all his activities in Twitter. I didn’t include those — you can follow Dick and read them for yourself! Anyway, here are some of the Excel comments that I found interesting this week….
This week there were several twitters about Excel and music, but no consensus on the type of music that works best. There’s also a growing number of twitters comparing Excel to Apple’s Numbers. There are the usual battles with Excel, and even a few people talking about pivot tables. And apologies to all the cat…
If nothing else, at least these weekly Twitters let you know that you’re not alone in your love/hate relationship with Excel. This week we look at the Good, the Bad, and the downright Ugly. The Good I’d be happy if they’d switch to Excel. Anything’s better than ferreting the unanswered questions of out a pile…
If people would stop Twittering about Excel, and just do their work, maybe they could go home earlier. Unless they’re using Twitter to ask for help, which a surprising number of people do. It’s hard to help them in 140 characters though, unless you just post a link to the Microsoft newsgroups. Anyway, here’s another…
As usual, there are plenty of Twitters about people’s love/hate relationship with Excel. But what are they using Excel to do? Some pretty interesting things, by the sound of it. And sometimes the Twitters reveal a little too much information about their use of Excel. The list of happy hours seems like a productive use…
If you’re visiting my blog from the Blog-to Show at the Successful Blog, thanks for stopping by. And everyone else, thanks to you too! The blog has new posts Monday to Friday, with the occasional weekend post, such as this one. Today’s post is a summary of Excel comments found in Twitter yesterday, and as…
Last Saturday I posted Twitter comments about Excel. Since yesterday’s post was about PowerPoint, let’s see what people are saying about it. As with Excel, some people seem to love it, or are at least ambivalent. Others speak of PowerPoint and violence in the same sentence. No mention of versions though. So which quote rings…
These are some of the comments posted in Twitter recently, that give a glimpse into what the world thinks of Excel, and what people are using it for. Why are the Excel haters’ comments much more interesting? Some people love Excel: A friend just sent me a real cool College Football schedule in Excel format…
Finding new ways to make Excel interesting. We’ll try videos, animation, whatever we can find (within reason!)