Excel Twitter 20110824

imageWhile you work on your Excel sheets today, try to love the challenges, and avoid jail time or PROcrastination.

  • You know you’ve had it rough when doing excel spreadsheets for work is soothing.
  • Oho now I need to learn how to use excel sheets. Sheesh. Didn’t realise filmmaking wd be so complicated. Anyway, I love challenges.
  • if I see one more pie chart or pivot table I will be in jail for a very long time 🙂
  • Was about to sit down and work on homework the hard way, when I realized doing it in excel would be way easier. Thank you Microsoft Office!
  • This Excel test is stupid…if I use short-cuts they fail me……#FAIL
  • absolutely dont want to refresh my macro building skillz in excel for a one off problem. references should work fine.
  • I love getting Japanese spam with excel attachments. It makes my inbox look very international!
  • Yep – take after my dad. I love Excel Spreadsheets!
  • Working in Excel quite a bit today. Brings me back to my media days… Never thought I’d say it, but glad I know what a Pivot Table is.
  • About to work on excel spreadsheets for work tomorrow morning. Putting the PRO in procrastinator. I’m about that life.
  • ambled into work, stuffed my sweaty ass into my ergonomic lumbar-support chair. "time to jack into the grid" i breathed, opening excel 2003
  • Today at work I learned WAY more about Excel than all my years of paid for education has ever taught me. Got to love the government!
  • LMAO my mom and I were so bored at work today we exchanged handwritten and excel-based drawings of room designs for my place
  • knows how to work out some formulas in excel– finally!
  • i don’t even know what pivot tables are, just that excel has a load of tutorials about it. hence it must be fancy.
  • I started a spreadsheet to track all the gear I want to collect to transmog. I’m a geek on many levels, apparently.

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Excel Twitter 20110823

imageOrganized or OCD, that is the question. You can think about your answer, while you enter all the receipts for your trip.

  • Printing out an excel page full of random numbers so my maths teacher thinks i did work…
  • Dear Excel: If a cell has restricted values, can you only suggest auto-completions that comply with the restrictions? Sincerely, Everyone
  • Dominating #Excel this morning. TY to my coffee & Google #mondays
  • Just did hours of Work in Excel. Then closed my spreadsheet and said ‘No’ to saving. Doh! Luckily 2010 saved it anyway. #Thankgodforexcel
  • is trying to make Excel sound interesting for a 10 minute presentation on Weds.
  • This #excel model has just cooked my poor Mac mini… Stupid array formulas. Why are peeps still using 03? Upgrade time – #necessaryevil
  • running reports, hacking around in Excel, wishing coffee didn’t make me so darn jittery …. must be Monday. #justanothermanicmonday
  • I have my schdule/time off planned through January and in Excel format. #organized or #OCD?
  • I just ran the same report five times because EXCEL HATES MY LIFE THIS MORNING! #whenfriendsturntoenemies
  • Is there a cheat sheet somewhere on ESPN that can be pasted into excel for offline use at a draft? I want a spreadsheet!
  • Fixing an Excel modeling issue by hardcoding feels like using the dark side of The Force, but what the heck.
  • Anybody heard about excel? Did you really just ask a class of mechanical and chemical engineers that question?
  • There’s no better way of killing cherished memories of a great trip than soullessly entering the receipts into an Excel spreadsheet.

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Excel Twitter 20110822

imageHaving a moment of Excel clarity every couple of hours is better than average. Maybe the music helps! Or the beer rewards.

  • Today at work I learned an Excel spreadsheet has 65,536 rows… This also just happened to be the most interesting thing I saw/learned today
  • Worked 5 hours on a spreadsheet only to have it disappear without a trace #badtimes
  • I love when I find a sexy new function in #Excel, I love you =subtotal(109, range)!!! #Nerd
  • I would be so much more motivated to work on spreadsheets if Excel rewarded me with a beer for every completed sheet.
  • listening to Pete Rock, CL Smooth while doing revenue. I can’t stop licking my lips and asking this Excel file out. #TheMainIngredient #work
  • ..thing is, excel is not the same on a mac. Can’t do my fancy finger work and super duper charts and models the same way.
  • PowerPivot loves Peyton Manning, as demonstrated. I’m sure Peyton loves PowerPivot too but he’s a quiet man.
  • Forgotten how to make a table on #Excel 😐 This is gunna take a while…>.<
  • Trying to work out how to draw a timeline on excel. Failing miserably.
  • so i spent a solid 2hrs on an excel problem then had a moment of clarity and solved it in 2 minutes. Sonofa…
  • I’ve done nothing but make Excel spreadsheets for work this week. I am now the queen of conditional formatting.
  • Sunday morning topic of discussion while toddler’s asleep: macros in Excel. Think we are both taking work too seriously. Need to ride bike.
  • Clients! When you’re sending a financial schedule or worksheet – send it in Excel (or spreadsheet format), not as PDF!
  • Clearly, all this fighting with Excel is making me punchy. Sorry. OTOH, my problem is now solved & my pivots are done!! Ha!
  • One day my boss will realize that he can essentially replace me with google. That day won’t come until after he figures out excel though.
  • ‘The Doors’ are keeping me going whilst constructing my #PowerPivot model well into the night 🙂 #Music

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Excel Twitter 20110820

imageCrank up the volume while you work on the Excel files, and you’ll think that you’re back in your youth, enjoying an evening of laughs with friends. Well, maybe not, but it might drown out the annoying noob in the next cubicle.

  • I remember the days when life was full of laughs, drinks &friends. That life has now become full of excel sheets, late nights at the office
  • #Excel, I love you. I hate you. I hate to love you. I love to hate you. It’s very complicated.
  • OMG!Just made the classic mistake…Working in Excel and didn’t save my work and it just closed on me…and it only recovered 10% of my work
  • Well, Excel can take some getting used to! If you get stuck I’ll wave my magic wand over it for you, no problem 🙂
  • #Upgraded to Office 2010 today. So far so good, but excel is gettin kind of weird.
  • I never thought Excel was cool until I learned from a company visitor how to create pivot tables. I did one on my own and it’s good!
  • So annoyed. Noob colleague at work needs to learn how to Filter on excel before firing the blame gun.
  • Excel and the Inception and Dark Knight soundtracks bombing in the headphones. THIS IS HOW WORK GETS DONE!!! #myvolumeisWAYtoohigh
  • Afternoon slump. My mind is just one big excel workbook filled with numbers. None of it makes sense anymore. Coffee hasn’t helped. SAVE ME.
  • heard a colleague say "these values are all ‘vlookedup’ from various sources"… correct usage of #msft jargon? Excel rats, plz weigh in…
  • #Excel crashed after I accidentally copied 1 cell in an entire row. Didnt save yet. All my formulas … Nooooo! :'(
  • Fighting with Excel. I just don’t understand why it won’t read my mind. Stupid program.
  • Does it make me a geek to know that I created a 10 sheet Excel workbook last night for researching and buying a car?

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Excel Twitter 20110819

imageIs a barbeque more fun than getting a pivot table to look like the one in the book? I don’t think so!

  • I just figured out how to make this freaking pivot table work!!!!! I’m declaring myself a genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • I’ve done more work in Excel today than is healthy. Can see little grid lines when I close my eyes.
  • My pivot table now looks more like the one in the book! *party~~~~* hahahaa
  • I hate to sound like a major dork… but Excel pivot tables are the shizznit.
  • Calculating budget using excel is quite fun. I always enjoy it. Especially calculating future cost. I love numbers. I love dollars.
  • My new favorite #Excel function: "OFFSET"…creeping into almost all my new #spreadsheets. It is so versatile and applicable!
  • just created an excel file with 31 columns of data, made a pivot from it and then included in a presentation, not bad for 30 mins at lunch
  • I’m thinking in columns. Stupid Excel.
  • bbq + go-karting? How are you getting all these perks? Best perk i’ve had – when Excel crashes and i have some free time.. #saveme
  • Turns out #Excel doesn’t like ‘Track Changes’ on 17k records with 40 columns of data. Strange 😀
  • I am drowning in 750 thousand lines of excel code. I’m now seeing characters wherever I look. I see sums and concatenations instead of faces
  • so apparently Excel 2010 is so 20th Century you can’t split cells…. #microsoftsucks #getwiththetimes
  • i officially hate trying to work within the confines of #Excel when I really want to make this project a database…stupid people
  • How can Excel for Mac being such a crappy software? The Windows version is great. Who screwed up, Apple or MS? #officeformac #excel
  • three days down and 311342 days left at death row.. i mean excel.. #fml
  • Flu + headache + 3 hours of Excel. Equals the death of me.
  • I’m making sweet, sweet love to an excel file. Don’t be jealous.

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Excel Twitter 20110818

image Do people like the boss’s wife, even though she doesn’t have many Excel skills?

  • Remember those great Excel changes you all suggested? The boss’s wife, who does the books, couldn’t understand them. Now I have to revert.
  • 1 down 3 to go, creating the worlds most powerful and influential bug testing matrix, using none other than Microsoft’s own "excel". :/
  • tearing things up with my pivot table skills. #guyslikegirlswithskills
  • No surprise: I find it super relaxing to do research and put data into excel spread sheets at work #nerdalert #atleastigetpaidtodothis
  • Lmaoo…my boss just got so happy that I fixed all his codes on his bugeting excel worksheet that he clapped for me.
  • Boss is a nightmare with any kind of data software. I hate excel but I can tell where she went wrong in about 10 seconds.
  • I hate Excel sometimes, like the ritual of closing every other application before creating a pivot with a half million rows.
  • I feel like an excel superhero…an "or" nested in an "and" nested in an "if" all linked to a separate worksheet…
  • The thing people like best about me in general? My #Excel skills.
  • Peeling myself off the ceiling now after Excel spreadsheet corruption – if I go and stick the kettle on things might just improve..
  • Guess what I get to do today? Write a rather involved Excel macro in _Visual Basic for Applications_. Old school. Eww.
  • Protip of the night: Excel functions don’t work too well in Word. Things are going poorly over here.
  • There really needs to be an innovation in Excel sheets. They’re just plain super boring to work on!
  • so I just bought Excel so I can tinker with it at home (for work), what is wrong with me
  • People who say this time period is passionless have never overheard my boss argue with an IT person about whether an excel plug-in works.
  • Week #2 & I’ve already impressed my boss w my mastery of Excel by revamping various data tracking workbooks. Yes, I am a giant nerd.
  • excel formatting sending me to sleep, lots of work now but if i do it it should hopefully pay off later
  • call me a dork, but excel macros make it happen. #excel

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Excel Twitter 20110817

image Keeping all your related fundraising data in different Excel files sounds like a great idea. What could possibly go wrong with that plan?

  • Using Excel hurts me in the thinking part.
  • Took me 4 flipping hours to create an excel supplies list…I need at least 12 hours of stupid to function normally after this
  • Excel, you win. I am not smart enough to figure you out. (insert raspberry noise here)
  • Just had to change the colours in a spreadsheet bcoz they were "man city blue".. Pfft, men!
  • I didn’t know that Ctrl+W would close a file in Excel. #ThingILearnedTodayByAccident
  • Time sure does fly when you’re going cross-eyed staring at an Excel spreadsheet…. When the hell did it get to be 4 o’clock?
  • I just fell in love with Excel. I know I’m a little late to party, but so glad I figured it out!
  • First day of grad school at U. Iowa MHA. Key question: can I build Excel pivot tables? Or find someone who can?
  • last night I had a dream in which I dreamed a solution to an Excel based problem I have! And it will work… how cool is that??
  • Man the power went off and came back on. If this Excel didn’t autosave…….
  • I have spent the last 4 days building an excel function for work thats 1000s of chars long to find out data validation allows 255 chars max
  • working on a budget spreadsheet. is this what normal people do all day? i usually just play with clothes.
  • so many ifs that Excel has ran out of colours 😉 lol
  • Me: You sure you can handle 110,000 records? Excel: SURE! Me: OK…. (click) Excel: BAARRRRFFFF AUUUUGHHHH
  • Something hilarious just happened in Excel when I did a Find and Replace. No space to explain it, trust me, it was goddamn funny
  • Everybody in this room uses pivot table but only 3 raised their hand to #powerpivot
  • yes i would love to clean up your excel mess
  • Stupidity at its best- Shut down an excel file without saving, there goes my night!
  • Yearly donors are in 1 excel file, monthly in another, lapsed donors in a different Excel file. Is that a problem? #BadFundraisingQuotes

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Excel Twitter 20110816

imageIf old Excel is stupid, and Excel 2010 is suckier, no wonder Excel is so complicated, and makes us sleepy.

  • seriously excel is making me sleepy. or maybe just work.
  • why the hell do i need to use excel for my finance assignments and tutes. EXCEL IS SO COMPLICATED….
  • I was so excited when I got to make my very own pivot table! And then I got to make a bunch of them @ktjatja #powerwalktalks
  • Bah. Old Excel is being stupid on desktop. Going to laptop & Office 2007. #stupidhomework
  • Refactoring an Excel VBA application. 40 pages of "copy/pasted" code.
  • Mom’s doing spreadsheet of pros and cons for grad school now. MOL she’s a nut job, my mama
  • Never wants to look at another spreadsheet again, sooo many contingency tables
  • Lunching after spending nearly all of today in a spreadsheet hell. My ‘I ♥ SPREADSHEETS’ mug has been baished to the kitchen. #unEXCELlent
  • Think you love fashion…overheard @ dinner ‘I have an excel spreadsheet to coordinate my outfit selection’ #amazing
  • bored so i’m making a spreadsheet.
  • Got some interesting customer datasets, nothing better than playing with data and #PowerPivot 🙂
  • I have not touched Microsoft Excel since Business Keyboarding class… This is going to take awhile
  • Just had my work machine upgraded to Windows 7 with Excel 2010. Is it just me or is Excel 2010 suckier than Excel 2003?
  • Advanced excel training at work tomorrow, who plans things like this for a Monday?? #mondaysareforsleeping
  • <insert pivot table gag here>

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Excel Twitter 20110815

imageDon’t stay up until stupid o’clock, working on your Excel files. That could lead to eye problems, and sheets going psycho.

  • Get excited, ladies and gentlemen. I’m breaking out the Excel line charts.
  • I think I over did it with work today. I put so much information in the excel spreadsheet I feel like my arm is going to fall off now. 🙁
  • still looking for work…started learning microsoft office: just finished Word and almost done with Excel!
  • If you aren’t going to use any formulas, why are you bothering with Excel? Seriously, + and sum() are not too complicated…
  • I’m going into the headphone / excel doc zone. Wish me luck
  • #Excel as platform & object is excellent. But it is criticized in Japan. #VBA profession and #SOA cooperation is not so known. Regrettable.
  • stay up until stupid o’clock fighting excel 07. discover in the morning that old excel does it without batting an eyelid. *twitches*
  • oh, I could teach you to become a spreadsheet master … #lovespreadsheets
  • Just blew up MS #Excel with >70,000 data lines. Guess I need #coffee break now, then do some damage repair… #longingforweekend
  • What kills me is how slow excel is to load! I love it when it’s up, but why does it take so long to start?!?!
  • Eh, I don’t feel like making a spreadsheet right now. I’ll do it tomorrow
  • Going to be a fun night in front of the computer with Excel and lots of numbers. At least I have a nice bottle of Prosecco to work through.
  • 4.5 hours into the day, still haven’t opened Excel #productive
  • Really sucks when you have to wait 10 minutes for Excel to insert the subtotals. It shows the magnitude of the spreadsheets I work with.
  • I’d like someone to explain to me why my excel spreadsheets are going psycho. Then maybe I can get somewhere with my work today. #fml #fb
  • Perhaps we should just delete that spreadsheet all together if we aren’t going to follow it…

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Excel Twitter 20110813

imageIf you colour code the entire Excel sheet, drink gallons of coffee, and watch a movie about monkeys, maybe the pivot table will work.

  • #excel crash. so long work. i will attempt to craft a twin version, only stronger.
  • my waterfall chart is now the most awesome one ever 😀 Excel triumph #didntknowihaditinme
  • Love my stats and metrics – because they *look* good, and because they *are* !! Best friend with excel again :))
  • Success is not made by hardwork and integrity alone. But by gallons of coffee, excel sheets, flyer miles and atleast one ulcer #suchislife
  • I honestly think the most important things I’ve learnt during this dissertation are the advanced functions of Word and Excel.
  • Now Excel’s being difficult. Getting mightily fed up. At least I have a bottle of something cold in the fridge for later.
  • If a train leaves Chicago going to NY at 60 mph, and an airplane leaves Seattle going to NY at 400mph, why won’t this pivot table work?
  • Srsly wth Wompa? What is the #1 rule of editing the spreadsheet? "You don’t talk about editing the spreadsheet?" -Bread/Leo
  • Lull in work after quite some time. I hope to not see #Excel ‘s face today.
  • My team lead ready to kill me cause I color coded this whole damn excel sheet! LMFAO!
  • Seeing as this Excel course cost work over £150 I’m gonna make full advantage of the free biscuits and hot chocolate. #nomnomnom
  • Sometimes my excel graphs look like works of modern art. #GeekTweet
  • To celebrate excel ruining my afternoon I shall see a movie about monkeys taking over the world
  • the only job i can find and it has to do with excel spreadsheets. i’d rather kill myself than work with them.
  • If I lose one more nested Excel macro I’m going to throw a mouse at the first guy with glasses I see *=if()*
  • Done with primary and secondary tasks at work. Guess I can work on my Inception-style pivot table. #pivotinapivotinapivotinapivot
  • 2 things can realllyy test ur patience.. Girls n MS Excel!

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Excel Twitter 20110812

imageMaybe you’d be excited about a macro that makes Excel say “sorry”, when it tells you how expensive your wedding is.

  • I think ima sit here an re-type some old spreadsheets in excel to make it look like I’m doing sum work
  • Dropkick Murpheys are slamming my eardrums while I work in Excel. Hopefully it evens out somehow. Celtic Punk vs. Conditional Formatting.
  • I should be excited that I’ve built a macro to remove 4 keypresses per line in my spreadsheet.. But I’m not!
  • Excel drains by body and soul from semblance of humanity. Ode to Excel would be "DIE". #work
  • well you are at least polite. Excel didn’t even give me a "sorry". Microsoft should work on manners.
  • been looking at the wedding budget spreadsheet the mrs has created & have decided wedding stuff is ridiculously expensive… #fb
  • Getting paid to muck with Excel this morning at work. Good times.
  • Thanks to pivot, vlookup, macros, merge, and even autofill! Work life can still get easy breezy when Excel is in it! 🙂
  • I might just cry:/ Stupid excel crashed and now even the previously saved version of this doc is missing 🙁
  • I love staying at work late doing "=vlookup"s in excel. I also love that I even know what a vlookup is.
  • Microsoft Excel ate my work. Save a shared file, re-open it to check…everything is gone. ;_;
  • Woo! Next payment I make on the dress will bring it down to triple figures!… *weeps into budget spreadsheet*
  • CRAP I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT THE STUPID EXCEL GRAPH!! HOW DO YOU EVEN DO UP A GRAPH ON MICROSOFT EXCEL OMG SAVE MEEEEEEEE. TTTTTTTTT
  • have just downloaded latest toy – Powerpivot! Such an Excel geek……
  • me too. Some guy was complaining about not knowing how to use excel. Can’t fix stupid…
  • Today’s learning curve was pivot tables. Excel suddenly made stats analysis a little more exciting 🙂
  • Actual thought process today: "Stupid Excel, just close it already, what idiot would need auto-recovery of… oh, crap! Ahh, cool."

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Excel Twitter 20110811

imageHome is a good place to work on Excel. It’s quiet, so that makes it easier to recreate the genius, when necessary.

  • Real bosses only work with Excel spreadsheets
  • Excel is such a robust tool, Chuck Norris once conquered an entire country using a well layed out pivot table.
  • It’d be nice if there is Starbucks cafe nearby. I’d finish my Excel & Words there. Home is not a place for work. No-oo-oo!
  • Nice work CSS king, I’m fully killing excel today. Excel says: All your bank recs are belong to zero. Thank you pivot tables.
  • You need to be a code cracker to work out what to put in cells. What should be in a cell is the Excel creator!
  • Soo I wouldn’t bank on your impeccable pivot table manipulation skills to get you further than mid-level or lower if you’re standoffish
  • Dint know that I would be able to work my way through such complex excel sheets.
  • Pretty sad when I have to lock the excel sheet on the server ice been working on for a week because people change it during lunch #jealousy
  • Yay! Figured out Pivot table functions in under an hour. My report is done! Now making it pweety. ☺
  • apparently, I’m somewhat of an excel guru. #hotgirlskillz
  • It’s just me and Excel this afternoon. I’m appreciating this pivot table thing ha.
  • Eyes are starry after squinting at excel the entire day! Companies should invest in eyecare for employees, don’t you think? #work
  • Just learned a little about #oData and #PowerPivot for Excel 2010. Both cool technologies. Pandora’s box has been opened! 🙂 #fb
  • If someone saw the paper that surrounds me they’d think i was well busy, if they looked at the spreadsheet they’d know i’m failing.
  • I love creating complex Excel spreadsheets. It’s so rewarding when your crazy formulas work the 1st time. #nerd
  • Surprised I have any hair after the monster of a data/excel problem I started solving today… Ow. My brain hasn’t hurt this bad since Calc.
  • darn it. lost the spreadsheet I was working on. can I recreate the genius?!

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Excel Twitter 20110810

image If you are an Excel ninja wizard, maybe you get a magical hat and a black belt. For now, I’ll settle for more coffee.

  • so apparently I am going to be some kind of Excel wizard or something? I wonder if they have Worksheet Hogwarts
  • I think I push Excel a bit /too/ hard with the stuff they have me do here. Seriously, I slow her down like an 80 year old in a Lincoln.
  • I love Excel. Whenever I think "there oughta be a function to do ____", I type in a few letters and there it is. COUNTIF saved a lot of work
  • microsoft excel world championships? what’s next, html code recitals? #whytho
  • I think I just earned, not a black, but perhaps a green or brown belt in Excel. And I have a headache. #notacoincidence
  • Few things make me feel as helpless & stupid as not being able to figure out simple tasks in MS Word or Excel. #FirstWorldProblems
  • Just got Excel 2010 on my computer at work, upgraded from Excel 2003. Never thought it would feel so good to be only a year behind!
  • You know ur a shopaholic when u write out ur list in Excel, tag and color code them according to level of WOWNESS!
  • Don’t you just love it when you spend an hour inputting data into excel and it goes and crashes before you can hit save?! Computer rage!
  • you should never pivot table in excel and google map simultaneously. or is it concurrently. anyway – strike NH. make that vermont.
  • Another weird thing about my BF’s computer. Everytime you hit the volume button it opens a new excel document. ?!?!
  • Uhhhh, Dear Excel..WAKE UP!!! There is NOTHING wrong with my Pivot Table formula! *Grrr*
  • I LOVE MSFT Office! Bolding a field in Excel locks up the entire application. Guess it’s expected with sophisticated actions like that.
  • Oh hooray. Love starting off the morning by freezing Excel. I need more coffee for this.
  • I’m not so excited to make my schedule, but retype it afterwards in excel and colour code it 🙂
  • Come on Microsoft Excel, play nicely so I can leave work and go watch the #lufc game.
  • Anyone have any tips about transforming a pretty large Excel spreadsheet (2700×20) into a (somewhat) readable/organized blog post/entry??
  • I love Excel. I want to marry Excel. Instead of typing the same code 60 times I just need to do it once and then drag it down. LOVE EXCEL.

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Excel Twitter 20110809

imageNot many Excel related tweets yesterday. Maybe everyone was out doing their Christmas shopping.

  • I spend more time with excel than with people I love #sadreality
  • Did not know I could copy from Excel and paste into Paint and have my worksheet rendered as an image #tip
  • Just made my Christmas shopping spreadsheet – yes I do this every year and always this early. Excited about the gifts I’m assembling!
  • Last year at this time I swore that excel was useless and something I would never use… now I can’t imagine what I’d do without it!
  • Nothing to do at work……..just made it to the last cell of an excel worksheet. For all that want to know it’s IV 65536
  • And i have also broken my 14,000 line excel football results/odds database. Not good. Not good at all.
  • Helping my older brother fill in his take-home quiz on Excel #feelingsmart
  • dam you wildcard characters and my lack of knowledge of "~" learnt something this evening!! #excel
  • LOL and if common sense ruled I’d spend more time on the my golf game and less on building excel charts ;-))
  • First Excel crashed. Then Outlook crashed. Someone at Microsoft doesn’t want me to get any work done today.
  • Oh #pivot-table! You make my life so much better and yet so much worse!!

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Excel Twitter 20110808

image Watch for circular references, or you might cause a banking crisis, and go easy on the Excel worksheet colours, to save ink.

  • Boss: "If you create a colorful excel spreadsheet to send as an email, won’t it waste a lot of ink?"
  • There’s a world chanpionship of Excel? Why didn’t I know this? I love Excel!
  • hey high school students: instead of sweating algebra, teach yourself solid Excel skills: pivot tables, formulas, VBA #lifehack #useful
  • Excel pivot tables are possibly the greatest invention in the history of mankind. #MoveOverEliWhitney
  • My goodness. Just learned all about @powerpivot on you tube and am now desperate to upgrade to #Excel2010
  • Oh what to do, brush-up on Excel Pivot tables, read The Oz, or blob in front of the teev…
  • Stupid broken Excel. I’ll let S&P do my budget.
  • #thatnotsoawesome moment when you realise you forgot how to use excel.
  • Forget it.. I’m not going to get MS Excel just so I can answer 1 stupid question. I only need a 44% on this exam to pass the class anyway.
  • Annnnd I’m three spreadsheets to the wind… That’s what I get for #Excel-ing all day.
  • who in their right mind uses custom fonts for the row numbers in #excel? You’re not a designer. #fail
  • Dang business computer class got me stuck… jus wen i was on a roll, grrrrr stupid excel functions…..
  • Just helped someone on excel,and fixed the problem they’ve had all day! Feel like a right legend just about..NOW #goodboyforonce
  • I should really change my go to screen for when my boss walks by. I’ve been on this excel file for 2 years
  • Oh Numbers. I so wanted to like you over Excel. Failed at the first hurdle, no radar graphs! I LOVE radar graphs 🙁
  • Note to S&P: When its says "circular" on the bottom of your Excel spreadsheet – you have a problem. Explains the bank ratings in 2007.
  • My dislike for creating a spreadsheet has been overcome by the need to use one.

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Excel Twitter 20110806

imageNo details on what that “stupid thing” was, that caused the Excel problems, but maybe it was a 3-D chart.

  • Has anyone EVER been able to use #excel gazilion lines on a normal computer…great idea but would need a mainframe to maintain! #epic hang
  • I don’t believe it. I’ll take an excel wizard IB analyst any day over the 15yr old. Problem is they get no time off to compete.
  • Few things make you feel as nerdy as fixing someone’s bizarre Excel problem.
  • Discovered the category colors in excel. My email now looks like a rainbow, and I LOVE it!
  • my boss is so tired of me praising excel she signed up for a 10 week course. (you can laugh, it’s ok)
  • Grr, figuring out how to automatically number 100 rows in excel. I don’t see the stupid fill handle they’re talking about!! #in
  • After a certain level of complexity, there are simply better solutions than a giant, cumbersome, unsustainable excel workbook.
  • I did the stupid thing in Excel 2007, and it wiped out my computer so badly I had to unplug and do a cold restart and it’s STILL acting up.
  • People, for the love of Excel, let’s NOT use 3-D charts unless your data have a third dimension or a need for the Z-axis. I’m begging here.
  • Crying quietly at my desk because of a stupid Excel spreadsheet. Ughhhhhh
  • reminder to myself: NEVER sort an excel list with 250K++ rows.
  • Excel used to be a basic, functional program that did exactly what you wanted it to. It has become the bastard love child of Word and PP.
  • Just wasted 1.5 hours waiting for an Excel filter to work its magic. #fml
  • I’m a boss with Excel today. And by that I mean: I’ve had good luck copying and pasting formulas after a quick search.
  • Built excel pivot where, after a database refresh, the cells change color when performances reach a certain capacity. I LOVE THAT RED COLOR
  • Geeking out with Excel. Who knew pivot tables and formulas could be so fun? Maybe I should have taken #VBA in b-school…
  • My friend keeps asking why its taking me so long……she obviously does not understand my "SPREADSHEET METHOD"
  • My #excel skills are leet, yo. My custom formulas bring the girls to my yard, damn right they’re better than yours. #spreadsheethomie

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Excel Twitter 20110805

imageHives, headaches, vodka and dark rooms – working with Excel is full of danger!

  • I’m allergic to dairy, grass, #Wordpress & #Excel. Talk to the hand. That’s covered in hives #itsnotpretty
  • My workbook has 14 worksheets, 48 charts and 97 named ranges… if there’s a reference problem, TELL ME WHERE IT IS DAMMIT! #excel #sux
  • Apparently a 15 year old has won the Microsoft Excel world championship, her mother is a Microsoft software trainer #hothousingmotherIthink
  • Analysis paralysis setting in. Workin’ on a 300MB spreadsheet w/ a ton of pivot tables & links, takes 15 min. just to save it. #ExcelEyes
  • My friend once made a secret excel macro on someone else’s PC that advanced 2 cells on pressing return. What a genius!
  • Did anyone notice I just went from tweeting about an Excel problem to tweeting about vodka? That’s no coincidence.
  • idk how to use excel. i’ll use word then.
  • *ring ring* "Hello, is that loony bin?" "Yes, how can we help?" "There’s a PIVOT TABLE NUTTER on the lose in Reading."
  • 515pm is not a good time to realize you’ve misplaced an Excel workbook. Ahhhh
  • Pivot table won today! Tomorrow would be another episode. Veronica vs Pivot table
  • Sometimes I consider the Undo button in Excel as @BillGates personal gift to me. Thanks for thinking of me Bill, I appreciate it.
  • I have today discovered the delights of Excel pivot tables. Wish I’d learned about this geektastic option years ago.
  • I love how on Excel the example date is my birthday 3-14 🙂
  • Never thought I would say this: I know what a pivot table is, I know how to use one and they are useful!
  • All the lines in my spreadsheet are giving me a headache. Enough of that for today.
  • My tables don’t turn, they pivot. I don’t just use Excel, I live it.
  • I just learned the basics of microsoft excel in 5 minutes…..from youtube. Yay! I guess I’m not that stupid. =)
  • Just when I get tired of looking at #Excel, I get called into a dark room for a meeting. Life works out wonderfully.

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Excel Twitter 20110804

imageWhen you figure out what de-dup means, you can shout it from a mountain top! Or, just sit there, confused.

  • I kind of want to shout my love for #excel from a mountain top, but since I’m sans mountain, Twitter’ll do. (I feel so efficient!)
  • Wonderful morning training client on Excel in Basildon from my office in Shropshire! Don’t you just love Virtual technology?
  • Getting impatient with the slowness of MS Excel in calculating. #officeproblems
  • #Hyperlinks aren’t working in #excel and have no clue why not. Google hasn’t helped even. #JustSittingHereConfused
  • By the end of the summer the only thing my mind will be able to process will be in excel format #intern #acctconcessions #myeyeshurt
  • we should really discourage stupid-ism really, I had to fix the same excel sheet 5 time because people can’t read what’s written. #longdays
  • bit of advice for the active job seekers: don’t send your resume in excel format unless you’re including a pivot table. looks real dumb.
  • $@*% Microsoft Excel. That is all.
  • I have a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel. #excel #vba #icantbelieveimaboutodothis
  • #ihateitwhen Microsoft Excel asks me to save a document and I can’t remember if I’ve made any changes to it or not. #problemshavingarealjob
  • I’m gonna have a hard time tabulating this set of data. Thank God for excel!
  • If there was an omnipotent and benevolent God out there, he would’ve seen Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint coming and done something about it
  • slowly mastering #excel, one column at a time #computerilliterate
  • boss sent me an email and excel sheet "i need that de-dup asap" I didn’t have the heart to say I didn’t know what #de-dup was
  • In fact, while I *love* Excel for analysis (all day) I almost never give anyone a spreadsheet as part of any communication…
  • I hate waiting up at 2 am for data from some JOKE engineer in the field. How hard is it to update a spreadsheet? #Frustrated #NoSleep
  • I <3 Excel! There is nothing more businessly fulfilling then a complicated, multi-sheet, formula-rich, color-coded workbook.

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Excel Twitter 20110803

image Shocking news – the paperclip guy in Excel actually helped someone! Maybe he showed someone how to turn off AutoCorrect.

  • Note to self: excel is NoT a drawing software. I spent an hour drawing a stupid flange in excel
  • I’m so sad I created a spreadsheet that shows you how much each player cost per point earned last year. #loser
  • Thank you Excel for letting me know that 1=1 is "TRUE". Love smartass programs when I have a typo.
  • In bed with a calculator and Excel document. New things are coming!
  • I’m not sure I’m going to survive this data set. Please tell Excel when I’m gone that I loved it well, not wisely.
  • Can one become cross-eyed from using excel for 2 weeks straight – I may actually be going thru’ withdrawal symptoms of "real code" #FML
  • I am pushing CTL+S on my Excel spreadsheet every 10 seconds just to make sure I save my work before the power goes out! #Halifax
  • Dear Computer, please can I have my spreadsheet back (with the data). Kind Regards, Tracy.
  • Microsoft Excel Tip of the Day 8/2: The bigger the graph marker, the smaller the standard error. Heh heh heh.
  • Handing in my IT Nerd card on account of spending most of my day in Outlook and Excel #fml
  • Found a needle in a haystack today when I got to sift through 18,000+ rows in excel. Condensed down to 10ish problem rows. 😀
  • My boss can’t operate spreadsheet formulas so I’ve spent the week having to Excel…I hate workplace irony
  • When I’m bored, I re-make my fall schedule in Excel and color code it….
  • Hell is a place where you have to make Excel documents and there is no way to turn off autocorrect.
  • I got to play computer tech for my co-worker again. What problem did I solve? Maximizing the window in Excel. #awesome 🙂
  • For all of u that care I got my spreadsheet to work… Something to do with the formula thingy. Mr paperclip helped me!

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Excel Twitter 20110802

image Well, I know what a pivot table is, but had to Google to learn about Lamingtons. They might make the day seem shorter, if you’re spending 8 hours staring at an Excel sheet.

  • ate a lamington the size of a baby’s head and had my mind blown by a pivot table #gooddayattheofice
  • Working with #Excel is exciting. Every day, you learn some thing.
  • Oh for the love of…GRAAARRHHH!!! I feel like I’m playing with a frustrating puzzle using last years fiscal budget. #treasurer #excel
  • I was thinking the other day at work that some of my fave excel keyboard commands would also make great band names. For ex: Control Minus
  • At last I can put my Excel knowledge to good use, problem solved 2 minutes!
  • I just emailed my dad a spreadsheet like we doing business. Haha
  • Oh workmate who manually works out and types everything into excel sheets, if only you knew. if only you knew.
  • Working on excel is boring but learning about excel is death! #fml!
  • The autosum on my Excel has been coming out to zero. There are always issues on Mondays.
  • Never in a million years did I think I would care about whether you can triple space in #Excel, but you can’t 🙁
  • Internship day 1: so far so good, the seminar was fun but I need to work on my excel soon… T_T
  • Grocery shopping and cooking is easy when you have an excel workbook filled with your mother’s recipes and an iphone! #lovesoutherncooking
  • I wanna be at home opening lots of parcels, not at work opening sheets in Excel.
  • Excel powers activate!
  • oh the joys of office work, spending an entire 8 hour workday staring at and modifying a single excel document.
  • I could have gotten that job had I known how excel works. I’m so stupid!
  • Gonna do a little Excel spreadsheet work and see how Mets payroll, win/loss record, and attendance correlate.

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Excel Twitter 20110801

image You know it’s a slow weekend for Excel tweets, when the most exciting news is that someone’s dad is Mr. Excel. I wonder if dad knows about that tattoo.

  • Found out today that dad’s work nickname was Mr. Excel. And ppl wonder why I have a computer emblem tattooed on my body lol
  • I’m such a nerd, but I fit in with math geeks at my work. We had a luncheon discussion about how we used excel to solve logic games for fun
  • I’m in a reluctant love affair with Excel. And I want out.
  • strangely enough, Excel has earned a place in my Quick Launch
  • Corrections, having been asked for an electronic copy of an Excel spreadsheet, sends me a 26-page PDF #BadOIAStories #Fail
  • Microsoft Excel is the devil. Any work I do on it makes my nerves bad. Feels like I’ll never be proficient on it.
  • Sigh, I ask about some tool to maybe help me remove macros from an Excel workbook, and I get an answer telling me to use Excel. FML!
  • tipsy and doing excel worksheet at home… not a good combo
  • Bit of a no. crunching + data input using final table from all top-flight seasons + a pivot table or 2 = Useless Stats 🙂
  • MY BOSS WILL NOT LET ME BE GREAT. LUNCH BREAK MEANS YOU "BREAK", NOT "FORMAT EXCEL SHEETS AND FORMULAS"!
  • Alright, this is a serious problem. Excel has been not saving my spreadsheets for two days.

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Excel Twitter 20110730

imageThere’s no crying in Excel! Or hiding under your desk, playing Twister. A virtual shredder sounds fun though.

  • Quiet at work. Playing twister alone under my desk using paper as a makeshift mat, & a random number generator in excel tells me what to do.
  • Drowning under excel charts & graphs. Which subhuman deemed this a necessary part of corporate life?!
  • Dreamt I plotted my love life in Excel #wtf #FML #fail
  • Just got so excited when I realized the full capabilities of the pivot table in excel.#nerd
  • The main problem I had was thinking that excel VBA could be treated like a real programming language, it can’t, it’s goofy and now it works.
  • I need my boss to understand I have no desire to train staff on use of excel and word…..
  • my dad’s acting like a smartass, saying he knows everything about excel… problem is he actually does
  • Here’s a top tip, if it contains lot’s of numbers, it’s a spreadsheet so don’t save it in word.
  • Thank you MSFT Windows/Excel for the crash. Work lost. Grown man weeping #readyforavacation
  • *kicks Excel* Lets see if that helps.
  • it occured to me at work today that at age 20 I don’t have a single clue on how to use Excel #welldamn
  • I love working sessions with fellow Excel nerds. Only then can we spend the first 15 min setting up conditional formatting and filter rules.
  • What am I doing when I take a sick day from work? Making an Excel spreadsheet…of course??? #collegetraitor #whartonjobquestionmark
  • Just lost the last 3-4 hours worth of work in Excel. Note to self: SAVE YOUR WORK! #FML
  • It could be a thing. I love to smash my excel sheets. How about a virtual excel shredder?
  • My brain I close to being fried. Gotta love #excel. Or do you..
  • There’s two things I love in life: the packers and a good excel spreadsheet

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Excel Twitter 20110729

imageShould a spreadsheet last forever? Maybe not, but get rid of it when it starts to smell dirty.

  • I’m creating sales thermometers and tachometers in Excel today. I love my job!
  • I should not be this proud of a completed Excel spreadsheet.
  • …just overheard my 50 year old boss refer to a color coded excel spreadsheet as "dude, this is tight." No. No.
  • Completed my first real pivot table in Excel, making me now *officially* a Sales Ops guy.
  • And my vlookup skills save the day again. #excel
  • Convinced I am allergic to excel charts.
  • The dreaded end of month paper work looms close by.. i can smell the dirty excel spreadsheet monster from here
  • The fact that I can enter numbers into an excel spreadsheet w/o looking at the key pad makes me upset lol….#nobutreally
  • Boss just put a huge stack of papers on my desk and said put this in excel #MBN
  • Had a nightmare about a spreadsheet. C’mon, Subconscious. Give me something good.
  • excel spreadsheet is the last thing i want to hear from my boss’ mouth. UGH
  • I love nothing more than someone with above average excel skills- I heart pivot tables. What did you do? Xx
  • it’s sad how happy Excel can make me. I have a workbook for just about every project I do. At work. And for my wedding. DORKS UNITE.
  • Vlookup isn’t a mystery anymore. Pivot tables have been sorted. .. Just a couple of Excel breakthroughs for me this week.
  • A well designed spreadsheet should stand the test of time. Do the work once, enjoy and relax forever.
  • Why do I always come up with complicated ways to sort my data when the only answer is a pivot table?! I think too much.
  • This pivot table assignment it’s like a game. Click here, click there. Drag here, drag there.
  • Someday when i get bored here at work, i’m going to make some plaid in excel. Why? Because i can. Muahahaha.
  • Had a lovely meeting with the boss today! Ice coffee and Excel calculations in a cute Cafe! This is how I like to work:-)

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Excel Twitter 20110728

imageYou can lead an Excel user to macros, but you can’t make him enable. Please keep that in mind when you’re speaking Excel, or trying to divide by zero.

  • Have you reached the maximum number of cells allowed in an excel worksheet? I have. Twice. In 1 day.
  • Made serious progress with the data today. Good work excel, you’re being nice for a change.
  • Just spent several hours creating several spreadsheets because a new manager wants 2 months of status and only speaks Excel. #fml
  • I love it when Excel says Macros are disabled, I simply say "Thanks! I dunno how to use em anyway!"
  • I just yelled at an excel spreadsheet. How many bad ideas can fit on one effing page? Seriously, was this a contest?
  • When my boss tries to tell me that you can in fact divide by zero and I must be doing something wrong in the excel file I’m working on #dumb
  • I love when Excel does funny things, like sum a selected range of date. "03/29/3651" is so helpful!
  • #thatawkwardmoment when excel crashes and you didn’t save the document…I should never ever encounter this problem :/
  • Learning how to do work on excel at work… A little more difficult then I thought.
  • I cannot stand the two extra sheets in an excel workbook.
  • I have all these great ideas but I can’t for the life of me work out how to make it happen. Damn you excel! #excelfail
  • I know how to use excel. I just didn’t know it did charts. At least half of that statement is untrue.
  • I think I have a problem…why does a smile come to my face when I am working on Excel?
  • Excel just erased my last four hours of work. Flabbergasted beyond belief, contemplating self-harm, etc. #researchassistantlife
  • i love how when i feel like i’ve finally got a grip on excel, it decides to throw new things at me and make me feel dumb. O_o
  • There really needs to be an easier way to do clustered stacked column charts in excel 2007 than the work-around hack I found. #datageekery
  • If I threw up right now, an Excel spreadsheet would come out of my mouth.
  • No heteros. "No heteros?!" "…Ohhh! No header rows!" #DADT #microsoft #excel

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Excel Twitter 20110727

image Would you rather eat a pre-packaged butty, or work on Excel? If you choose Excel, we’ll throw in a hammer, and some gin.

  • A guy I work near uses with pivot tables. He’s French. Occasionally hear a burst of French expletives surrounding "pivot table"
  • I know it’s silly, but I feel like a computer whiz when I get excel to do something cool.
  • Boss gave me a 3000+ row excel sheet to analyze for a presentation tomorrow. I asked for guidelines. His advice: "be prepared" #suckstosuck
  • I have a really unhealthy love of Microsoft excel. I teach myself formulas in my spare time.
  • I love Excel. But then again, I do like a challenge
  • I once had a boss who typed all her memos in Excel. Drove me nuts.
  • Need to explain to my lawyer that I add up spreadsheet columns using a pencil & paper, as I don’t trust Excel #shouldhavebeenalawyer$$$
  • Note to self: Rename tab currently titled "RawDogData" before placing this excel sheet on the server. #AccountiNerd
  • If you don’t understand math or microsoft excel, then that’s your problem.
  • New work colleagues observation #94 : lunches are for wimps. You half-eat a pre-packaged butty for 10 minutes then back to Excel
  • LOL! I love Excel. I’m an Excel fangirl. Everytime I have a problem at work I go, "what we need is an Excel spreadsheet…" hehe
  • Formatting this Excel spreadsheet would go a lot smoother if I had a hammer and possibly some gin.
  • IPhone, you can do everything I can think of…except read a excel file, mega fail. #Windows95win
  • Excel just crashed for the second time today. Did I learn my lesson the first time and frequently save my work? Hahahaha. Of course not.
  • Ahhh… It’s been so long since I had to work out anything big in Excel, I’ve forgotten all my awesome formulae
  • Excel, how do I love thee? not as much as I love Access, but you’ll do…
  • Organizing the rota for a staff meeting via a shared Excel spreadsheet is just plain DUMB. Are we still in the 1990’s?

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Excel Twitter 20110726

image As long as it’s only part of your brain that melted, you’ll be fine. Talk to your boss about easing pain points, and then get back to work on that pivot table.

  • I think this spreadsheet just melted part of my brain.
  • Only I could wake up at 6 am to create an excel spreadsheet of items that need to get done today. I even have one for items being packed!
  • I hit the end of an excel sheet…I thought it went for eternity, but IV is the last column. I feel like I hit the end of the earth…#excel
  • It’s an Excel-filled and Foggy-minded kind of day.
  • Just been told I have to teach 2 italian students about excel. Not an exaggeration.They don’t speak any english. How is this going to work?
  • When my boss asks, don’t tell him I spent my day talking to a co-worker about her crush. Say something about easing pain points. And Excel.
  • For every one of our failures, we had a spreadsheet that looked awesome
  • Just input eight months of my transactions. Made a pivot table with aggregate fields for amount over time. Time for personal budget cuts.
  • Organizing a bunch of crazy lookin’ excel documents #losing
  • Today was an annoying day. All I did was stare at a spreadsheet and crunch and correct data fml lmao
  • ha ha ha ha: The sound of a crashed excel sheet, that you spent 2 hours on! #FML
  • Excel just failed to save two hours work. I could cry.
  • Started my finance spreadsheet. Now i can get depressed by the constant update of how poor i am. #moneyaintnothingbutapain
  • Just realized that Excel doesn’t do an automatic spell check. Houston we have a problem! Lol
  • How nerdy am I? I have a spreadsheet that catalogs every burned mix CD I ever made.
  • Spreadsheet hell! Excel clearly has a different definition of "merging" than I do.

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Excel Twitter 20110725

image What’s your record for the number of Excel files open at one time? Did you have to stay at work an extra minute, to close them all?

  • 50 #excel spreadsheets open at work.. 5 short of my record set on monday.. #organizationiskey
  • Hmmm…this Excel workbook I’m crunching data in will soon have over 40 worksheets. No wonder it’s taking me so long to do the analysis.
  • Who knows somebody that can work Excel perfectly. I will pay for service. Lemme know ASAP!
  • Do you know why "Excel" and "Excedrin" start off with the same four letters? Because you can’t work in the one without taking the other.
  • Justin’s 2nd irrational fear is that excel won’t work and he will destroy his computer by violently throwing it #thingsthatwillgetyoufired
  • Unbelievably, I stayed at work over a minute later than necessary to put borders around cells in Excel because I was enjoying it.
  • Or could Excel more reliably and completely let me know when AutoRecover fails to work?
  • I so want to be out on that patio having a mojito instead of at work doing those darn excel reports!
  • OMG. I was going to open a spreadsheet but my mind blanked on which one!
  • New word: Concatenation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation #Excel #imagenius
  • My spreadsheet crashed and I lost the data. Stupid computer! You left Excel open all night without saving. Hard for me to show sympathy.
  • Watching an animated timeline presentation created Excel. Using columns as slides. #thatscreative
  • Peeple who use #Excel to create documuents with a TOC and indexes are either just #stupid or too cheap to buy Acrobat…
  • mmmm, I just made a beautiful pivot chart. Great things happen at midnight! #excel
  • What’s the opposite of "Text to Columns" in #Excel? You would think it’d be Merge, but no such luck. #help #tech
  • I work in an office. Coldplay are here now, working on the Excel spreadsheet for their next album.
  • Spent 30 minutes conceptually solving an Excel problem and then discovered a built in function that does exactly what I wanted. Oh well.

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Excel Twitter 20110723

image Yes, Excel pivot tables are sexy, but you shouldn’t use them to keep track of little league cursing. Or maybe I read that wrong!

  • Once I open a Microsoft excel worksheet, my iq drops to the negative range..
  • About to nerd out on Excel. You know you’re a nerd when the idea of teaching pivot tables and data validation is endlessly exciting.
  • It’s sad when I can get extremely excited about cracking an excel problem. These are the highs of my life.
  • Creating GE / McKinsey Matrix in Excel http://t.co/ooqsyzF #ge #gematrix #excel
  • it’s sleep o’clock and i finally found the bug in my code. excel 2010 ranges don’t behave well when you set visibility=false. fml
  • Trying to make a pivot table in excell that counts how many wins and losses teams in my little league division have & cursing.
  • They only thing that annoys me more than a hard coded excel file, is a excel file with wrong formulas. #Excel #Work
  • Why did the sheepdog always have too many sheep? Because he always rounded them up. #Excel
  • I love you VLOOKUP. I really do. #Excel
  • Merged cells in #Excel are an abomination. Pure evil.
  • I’m going to an Excel training. I already think pivot tables are sexy. What more can I learn?
  • I’m becoming an excel nerd. And loving every minute of it. Love making charts of my research results. #advertisingnerd
  • Another day of staring at an Excel spreadsheet for way too long. Surprised I haven’t had a nightmare about that ruddy table plan yet.
  • Anybody else terrified of Excel? I have a spreadsheet in front of me now packed with tiny boxes and it definitely can’t end well.
  • It feels good to be needed but folks i can’t do all your work. Deal with your Excel worksheet. If it helps assume i’m Timbuktu!
  • Will cry next time I have to do a spreadsheet.
  • it’s official, i hate microsoft excel. especially when it’s 1200 lines of raw, incorrectly organized data. #FML
  • Just the thought of having to make a spreadsheet makes me want to fake my own death.

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Excel Twitter 20110722

image If you want your boss to think you’re a genius, use Excel. Even if you don’t like math, your work will look legit.

  • Sometimes the things I can do with a pivot table scare me. Next week I will try my hand at time travel.
  • I’m the only one n this office who can fill out a excel spreadsheet…don’t mean I can help u every minute fam.
  • Knew my horrible days of excel class would pay off somehow. My boss thinks I’m a genius. thanks #uncleray
  • I love my sweet husband, but he’s at his desk getting all excited about pivot tables and slicers in Excel. #marriedageek
  • Sitting on my balcony at Great Wolf Lodge drinking a Pacifico and working on a excel spreadsheet for work.The view makes all the difference!
  • Just created a perfect storm in Excel. By "perfect storm" I mean that Excel crashed and autorecover won’t work on my "corrupt workbook." FML
  • Using MS Excel as a code generator for LISP. Yes, I went there. Yes (surprisingly) it worked.
  • At Starbucks listening to hip hop and scrolling through images. That’s today’s work. Guy with the excel spreadsheet open is envious.
  • I’ve done bits of paper and then a crazy spreadsheet, but neither ended up working out for me 🙂
  • Client:"You sent tab-delimited. Can you resend in Excel." Think:"Can’t you just open it in Excel?" Say:"Certainly. That’s not a problem".
  • Is it really that hot out? Hard to tell when you’re trapped in front of an excel spreadsheet all day…
  • Figure work here we come, no not my figure (tho that does need working on) excel spreadsheets 🙁
  • My boss just yelled at the excel document to "open bitch"! Lol. Totally caught me off guard. O_o
  • I have learned a new excel thingy. Now to figure out how to get IF Statements to work with ROUNDUP factors… #IDontLikeMath #ItsJustTheory
  • last person in the office #excel #BlastingLilWayne #singingatmydesk
  • Takes a special kind of person to create an Excel workbook with different formatting dependent on what cell you’re in #dfu
  • I love excel, makes really unprofessional stuff look legit.

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Excel Twitter 20110721

image There are many uses for Excel workbooks, but did you know that it could plan a pregnancy? I’m not sure how I feel about that.

  • Working on new #analytics spreadsheets. I get way too excited when I have enough data to freeze panes in #excel. #thesimplethings
  • I should clarify, my love of Excel is completely on my terms-using it at work takes all the fun out of it.
  • My brain is officially fried. But I can build you a pivot table or database to show you the analytics of just how fried it is.
  • When dealing with a .prn file (Excel space-delimited) my brain is saying "dot porn". No way that will EVER cause a problem at work…
  • One of my favorite (nerdy) feelings is writing a complete macro (program) in Excel without running it and having it work the first time.
  • The new lady is so giggly lolI don’t understand how anyone can seem to have so much fun at work…MS Excel is not that great…
  • My boss just told me I do "incredible" work with Excel. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
  • After one hour of hardwork , my microsoft excel work is done . But I accidentally used one minute to delete the whole thing. Ccb .
  • Why my boss compliment me on gonig to some Excel classes? What about all the hard work I put into the 7 years in this office?
  • Hooray for Excel crashing while I was trying to save changes and me having to redo an hour’s worth of work! At least I printed them off 1st.
  • hate excel, was not put on this earth to work in excel, why do people around me love it so #allaboutword
  • I want to store a guitar or amp in my office so that when I finish a huge spreadsheet or profile I can smash them like a rock star.
  • OK. I’m looking to create an Excel-based QR code generator. Anyone have the standards behind QR codes?
  • My ex-boss used to project his excel spreadsheets onto a wall and pretend he was in Minority Report.
  • Spent whole morning filling a huge spreadsheet, which I know will be outdated tonight and useless by next week. Corporate environments…
  • I am about 40% finished with a tedious Excel project for work. There is a ginormous glass of wine in my future if I can get this done.
  • Has somebody else already built an Excel workbook for planning pregnancy? Or will I have to do this from scratch?

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Excel Twitter 20110720

imageThe boss could at least wait until you get home, before asking you to do more Excel work! Make sure he asks you to review the right data.

  • You can do anything with #excel You can #cook a #cake with #excel
  • Hi Boss, I love spending five hours copying & pasting data between Excel files only for you to tell me you told me to review the wrong data.
  • I’m going to murder my boss for creating the most complicated Excel spreadsheet ever. It’s now frozen. And I need it for a meeting. #FML
  • Excel, I keep finding new reasons to love you. Today it’s the =LEN function, a lifesaver for anyone working w/ character count restrictions.
  • I’m at an excel training course. I’m the youngest person here, and I was the first to arrive. I have a problem. Someone get me some help.
  • Work just called asking for a spreadsheet to be updated with changes and they want it in 5 min…!!!! I’m not even at home! #FML
  • I also have a complete and updated spreadsheet in Excel tracking my comics. Don’t feel bad.
  • Excel wizard of twitters – I’ve ‘hidden’ a column in Excel 2010.. how do I unhide it? #confused #excel
  • #slapintheface when I’m analyzing data & creating charts in Excel and I think, "damn, should’ve paid attention to 10th grade math class."
  • Can I honestly tell you how much I love the subtotal function in excel? Of course I can because you’re following me. #prepared4lessfollowers
  • Shouldn’t moan when there’s no work to do I now have an excel spreadsheet to stare at #badtimes
  • made an excel pivot table of my "personal finances" from the last 6 months… so now i know exactly why i have no money left in my savings
  • I HATE when you use excel and you accidentally click in between 2 cells and it takes you to the bottom of your 5000 cell spreadsheet.
  • Life would be much tougher without the pivot table
  • At the age of 22 I should NOT be day dreaming about walking around inside of a giant spreadsheet. #SEOtookmyyouth
  • Wooo, #excel sheet created to calculate vacation dates, complete with hours accrued per month
  • I’ve got that "stay up through the night to do university essay feeling" as I launch the Excel spreadsheet of doom.

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Excel Twitter 20110719

image Really, what’s wrong with taking notes in Excel? Or making an ancestry pie chart? Or calculating which sweet snack to eat?

  • Sitting in an all-day meeting. The person next to me is taking notes in excel. #facepalm
  • Ancestry Pie: An Excel sheet that creates a group of ancestry pie charts to mimic an ancestor tree. Mmm, pie. http://ow.ly/5HshQ #genealogy
  • excel charts, financial data spread across my floor. I have a 22 page paper and the limit is 20. Not even done writing yet! #DeathbyPaper
  • rain + excel sheet, I am so tempted to shut down and hibernate
  • As I work, my SDCC packing Excel spreadsheet mocks me. Mock mock mock. So now I must throw the PC out of the window. Back in a bit.
  • does it piss anyone else off when someone saves an excel doc not on the 1st tab & not on top of that page? #canigetanamen
  • Wow, I thought Excel charts were hard – those round menus would do my head in (it seems overly complex).
  • Just used excel to work out what was better for me – a gingernut or a piece of chocolate. It was highly technical, and very important.
  • Did I just invent the most boring corporate superhero couple ever? "Never fear! We’ll save the day with a clever formula/pivot table!"
  • Tom wins the Apprentice? The man who couldn’t add his numbers up correctly on a spreadsheet? Hope for us all!
  • #reasonstoquityourjob That "awesome program" the boss insists you use is merely Microsoft Excel. #microsoft #excel #spreadsheet #RGS #fail
  • I have to finish this work now! But I cannot use Excel effectively.
  • I have an Excel spreadsheet broken down in 1/2 hr increments & log writing & non-writing to stay on track when wavering. #tvwriterchat
  • I’m turning into "Excel Man" this week. It helps when you’re married to "Excel Girl" and can call her at work for advice.
  • Need to learn #excel by tomorrow.. Anyone got any advice? Geek question I know..
  • im getting tired, yet i wanna finish my work asap. stupid Excel macro dun wan to work. Dun understand why it cant execute simple task. Garh
  • A day of excel spreadsheet editing – Blondie on the iPhone should make it less painful!
  • And when I say ‘plans’ what I really mean is an Excel spreadsheet with detailed plans for each day they are here.
  • I just made an excel spreadsheet of books I want to read. Reason why I’m single number 400.

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Excel Twitter 20110718

image What made your heart soar with merriment this weekend? Chocolate and ice cream? Draaitabellen? Racing sheets? Excel pickup lines?

  • I’m not good on excel, but I did work at Disney World… -my sister
  • you love it! write an excel filter to destroy them!
  • FYI: To those that are trying to further their career/professional life, learn Excel. If you think you know it, learn more! #forwardprogress
  • speed testing numbers vs. excel. not sure why #fb
  • I just spent the best part of 2 weeks resolving a single (unfortunately complex) problem with Excel. If only my mind were more organised
  • Has spent part of the weekend redesigning the work structure for my role.I excel spreadsheeted hard.It made my heart soar with merriment.
  • the wind from the beach made me sleepy.. sleepy excel doesn’t work out well…
  • Just learned about pivot charts. Why do some things sound more interesting in English? #draaitabellen #Excel
  • All about the analysis today. 3 hours of excel racing sheets! I will crack the winning code!!
  • My dean sent out an excel spreadsheet with all the raises for all the fac in our College. Like, but feel a little awkward about it.
  • I make an Excel spreadsheet of every place I want to eat including ice cream and chocolate shops before each trip. #Food #Geek
  • thinking about quitting accounting and handing in a screenplay. premise. accountant gets #powerpivot dominates world. hilarity ensues.
  • Spent the day teaching my intern access and excel pivot tables. Today is a good day!
  • Today, I had to teach my new boss how to use excel. -_-
  • woohoo!!! Writing code is so satisfying when it WORKS!!! #Excel is also alot more exciting with VBA!!
  • You wouldnt know till you use pivot tables + sexy + Excel in a pickup line 😉

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Excel Twitter 20110716

image Please learn to love Excel, and get your pivot tables and formulas done quickly. The poor, hungry cats are depending on you!

  • No matter how I code it, #VBA and #excel cannot handle 3,889,440 cells very quickly.
  • My computer refuses to open two Excel files at once. Hey computer, who’s the boss in this relationship?
  • Helping Mom catalog her extensive Boyds bear collection in Excel. On a netbook. Somehow not beary filled with warm fuzziness.
  • Figure 1.8 shows the nightmare of many statisticians, the Excel menu for pie charts.
  • Microsoft has 2000 people that work on Excel…I’m the only guy that works on the Tables UI! #esriuc
  • My boss loves my report AND I helped the other associate who is like 30 do baller tricks in #excel g’damn am I awesome!
  • yeah i saw my dad’s old work files and its all in excel. good thing i dont work in an office/company. haha
  • I probably have to do about 5 minutes worth of Excel related work each week, and every single week, they’re the worst part. EUGH.
  • Stuck at work as I watch my Excel spreadsheet slowly tick through replacing formulas for me – I want to go home #catswillstarvesoon
  • Just added conditional formatting to my turf density spreadsheet. Beautiful! #ilovemyjob #datawannabe #teamexcel
  • worst words I’ve heard all day: "can you put this into an Excel spreadsheet?" ::pouts:: i hate Excel 🙁
  • I’m serious. Excel help! Please retweet….anyone…..someone…… Heh #excel #windowsexcel
  • It’s that time of day to start making pivot tables. Excel: please don’t crash, please don’t crash, please don’t crash
  • Excel pivot tables are really useful. I’ll show you how to do one next week if you like.
  • I’m looking for a simple way to "break" a y-axis in excel. Yes, I’ve googled it…looking for something a bit faster…any ideas? #excel
  • Most important skill an #aerospace #engineer, should learn in school? #Excel #VBA. Why? Because you will use it at work, no questions asked.
  • If you use #Excel daily, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems and Excel is all of em.

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Excel Twitter 20110715

image Forget the double-entendres and stick with the simple, but timeless, Excel jokes. For example, use a clever pun, like “for sum reason”.

  • Thanks microsoft excel for making me look like an idiot at work today
  • also i have solved the mystery of the missing event! i now have an excel spreadsheet named "problemsolvinggenius" today is a good day!
  • Taught myself to do excel pivot tables today, shoot me that I have sunk so low
  • You’ve been at work too long when… you start counting numbers in Excel using your fingers
  • Testing a 100M record #PowerPivot data refresh over the internet. #SQL server is in Dallas. PowerPivot running in Chicago. Predictions?
  • So I’m trying to build a pivot table on excel and for sum reason my dollar amounts won’t show up… This is stupid… And I got a migraine
  • New blog post: Is DAX the new SQL? http://bit.ly/nO0qkq #PowerPivot #SQL #Excel
  • Hope my boss doesn’t mind ‘fghjgfdsehj’ on his excel sheet. Aka me typing with my forehead. #sleeping
  • Office hilarity: Say "What an EXCEL-lent looking spreadsheet" and giggle.
  • Dear Excel, don’t assume I want a number like 123456789012345 presented as 1.23457E+14. That’s a stupid assumption.
  • totally pooped out. was it the swim? The sun? The excel problem? who knows. do not want to do anything but lay on this couch.
  • What the hell is an "OLE action" in Excel and why is it jamming up my spreadsheet. Arrgghhhh!
  • Just want to get this report over and done with. Don’t think my brain can handle anymore excel spreadsheet *sigh
  • Here, let me help you format that Excel spreadsheet.
  • I’m such a geek… Our prof gave us a passworded document with the answers in excel… I just hacked it so I didnt have to do any work.
  • And here I was thinking the pivot table reference was a pervy double-entendre. I’m a 7th grader.
  • I have decided to learn SEO, Website design and advanced #EXCEL to keep my mind off our dysfunctional congress
  • Day 2 and I learned something new: 1. Macros in Excel are truly a gift from heaven. 2. I work fast.

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Excel Twitter 20110714

image Happy Bastille Day! Break free from the spreadsheet cells, and have some geeky fun – far, far away from Excel.

  • Nothing more satisfying than all night long working on one excel workbook and having your boss open it to say "this is awesome."
  • Even my boss thinks I’m only kidding when I say Excel can kill a company –I’m not
  • Excel does not love you and does not have a wonderful plan for your life.
  • Late at night, when I can’t sleep, I like to listen to Three 6 Mafia and make charts in Microsoft Excel.
  • Boys in the office showing their love by suggesting over the top geeky excel macros. It’s kind of awesome…
  • Annnnddd the power goes out in my building just as soon as I save my Excel spreadsheet… I’m winning.
  • are you a pivot junkie like me? Excel geeks activate!
  • Just taught my boss how to strike-through font in excel, best personal achievement on the job so far
  • I wonder if there’s any code in Microsoft Excel that dates all the way back to version 1.0 in 1985?
  • I’m sure I saw an excel spreadsheet open. I make it a rule not to disturb when I see such things 🙂
  • Think its a bit unfair that I’m going to fail my geography coursework all because I can’t draw a stupid graph on excel
  • If you have to email me to find out if a cell is a Formula or a Hard Code, you should just stay far, far away from #Excel. #NFTC
  • Just opened: Email entitled "Spreadsheet from Hell." Luckily, I’m not a fluffy bunny.
  • Excel inspires me about twice a year. Yet I admire those who find great joy in the almighty spreadsheet.
  • Just set up my own custom pivot table style. #nerdsrule
  • Things I love – nerding out with excel. Things I hate – manipulating 14000+ rows of data in excel. Everytime I do something I fear a crash.
  • figuring out something in Excel is that eureka moment I needed for today! #Excel #whattookmesolong?!
  • Oh, goody, it’s 1st day of the month that #excel doesn’t think I’m manually typing dates as mm/dd even tho I myself set the format to dd/mm

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