Excel Twitter 20100923

image Which will you go for — the sexy Excel chart or the glass of wine that’s batting its eyelashes at you? On second thought, if the wine is starting to flirt with you, it’s time to quit anyway.

  • I love excel, good thing because my life would be miserable if I didn’t…
  • Work requires that I dine on a steady diet of MS Excel spreadsheets for the next month. Come mid-October, I’ll be easily capable of murder.
  • Ok, so I thought managing a spreadsheet with over 30,000 rows was bad…This firm that manages carbon credits has one with 30 MILLION rows!
  • have re-discovered my love for Excel sheets. Just like art for uncreative geeks!
  • I just made a really sexy Excel chart.
  • 3 hours of working on client info in excel/word. Computer crashes. Work gone. Just dropped an entire year’s worth of expletives in 5 min.
  • I love (hate) Excel, but unfortunately staring at it only makes it worse.
  • Now I know why Windows is called Windows. because all PCs need to be thrown out Windows. Not having fun with microsoft excel at work. Grrrrr
  • my Coworkers r noesy as hell…yes I’m doin my homework…so ur Excel spreadsheet will hav 2 wait #Realtalk
  • Excel, it’s not you, it’s… that glass of wine batting its eyelashes at me.
  • Spreadsheet bliss..! My charts and graphs are the envy of two admins.
  • I’m currently entering 3 full boxes of comic books into an Excel spreadsheet. And there’s nothing in the world that could make me happier.
  • I dreamt of excel docs. I’m sorry brain you don’t deserve this #fml
  • Hehe yeah, I’m mostly just doing crazy complicated Excel now (srsly scared our intern with Spreadsheet of Doom this week).
  • How to check Facebook with Excel (so that your boss doesn’t catch you procrastinating…) http://fb.me/K7IQmt0W
  • I’d actually love to do some work before hairdresser appointment but Excel doesn’t want me to
  • I love how Excel always asks if I want to save any changes like a jilted lover desperately trying to stop a break-up. I never fall for it.
  • I love the range of questions I get "is expired old bay bad to eat?" "what tires are good for light snow?" "how do I fix this excel chart?"

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Excel Twitter 20100922

image Sometimes working in Excel is like the Wizard of Oz, with flying monkeys and searching for a brain. And remember, Seattle is the Emerald City!

  • I am the SPREADSHEET MASTER!!!! RAAAWWWWWWWRRR!!!! *rips phone book in half* Feel the wrath of my mighty SumIf’s!!
  • Given a set of data, Excel cannot construct a boxplot. Or a histogram. Or a normal probability plot. No chart type for those.
  • It makes me sad that I’m getting more efficient in using Excel’s Pivot features. I guess I am a corporate drone after all.
  • My boss was impressed with my work today. But then again he is impressed when I link two cells in excel, so make of that what you will…
  • I’m stuck doing excel spreadsheets.. I still love my job I still love my job (Dorothy From the Wizard of Oz Voice)
  • I wonder if I should tell my boss I’m the queen of Excel spreadsheets and formulas or should I keep it a secret a little bit longer? Lol
  • have spent my entire day in a spreadsheet. Someone, anyone, I need an aid drop of Rioja and cheese!
  • At work, I’ve been given a print out of an excel spreadsheet and asked to add up the cells for each row and put a total at the end….
  • Liter of Coke, freshly made Ramen, a little dubstep, and I have on comfy sweatpants. Time to work on some excel projects. #nerdtweet
  • Just spread the L-O-V-E by showing a colleague the simple beauty of Excel pivot tables. And the angels in data-nerd heaven sang Hallelujah!
  • on the bright side, i finished my excel worksheet on time like omg my life is so exciting
  • I don’t get it. Why do people look at me like I’m crazy when I tell them I love Excel documents?
  • Note to self: to plot data on excel, use XY scatter instead of a line chart. #twitmem
  • Oh great, more project documentation in the form of an excel spreadsheet with awful, eye scorching colour schemes
  • bizzarro problem with Excel file sizes ballooning out of control. time for some Mozart and coffee.
  • I need a copy (preferably laminated & framed) of this amazing spreadsheet!
  • The best fit option for excel charts is a wonderful discovery…after the first 6 charts.
  • Dear Microsoft, Why do you not provide data analysis add-ins for Excel anymore? I might just fail econometrics because of this.

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Excel Twitter 20100921

image Excel macros aren’t considered real work? That’s news to me — maybe it’s because you don’t need special work shoes. I do know that the Excel Autocomplete function won’t do your work for you though.

  • I am now proficient in excel 2010. Only took me three hours to do four charts.
  • Dear self; stop playing with Excel macros. You have real work to do.
  • I survived the first interview this week but Excel and I will never be friends…
  • Dammit I’m going to have to geek out and use an excel spreadsheet to track the exercise dieting crap
  • Anytime I try something else I wonder why I didn’t just give in and use Excel. It just works
  • I could of course calculate the days on an Excel worksheet but where’s the fun in that?!
  • I hope I ace it too… But it’s 50 minutes to complete 50 multiple choice questions and complete and excel spreadsheet!
  • It’s noon Monday and my eyes already hurt from spreadsheet overload. Not a good sign for the week.
  • My dad sent me an Excel spreadsheet I made for his business when I was a kid. He still uses it. I am oddly touched by this.
  • so after all the wahala… this man said i should plot the graph with Excel… that stupid R project ruined my weekend #damnit!
  • Who’s got two thumbs and can’t make a working Excel spreadsheet? This guy.
  • There must be an easier way to track household expenditure – other than in Excel. It is soooo laborious. Still should sleep well! #eqnz
  • ah that’s annoying! Ever shut down an excel window only for it to shut down excel itself without saving? #geekproblems
  • I may have misunderstood the autocomplete function in excel. I’ve been staring at this spreadsheet all day, and it hasn’t even started!
  • I can’t convince my boss that SQL is easier than Excel reporting on thousands of records. …Frustrating.
  • Here’s hope: my hubs is awful at math and has to use it all day w/his work. So, if you can master MS Excel, you can rule!
  • I need to get over my "Excel-spreadsheet-aphobia." FAST!

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Excel Twitter 20100920

image World peace, cheerios and chicken wings. You can do anything with Excel, as long as calculation isn’t set to Manual.

  • My boss’s family is TOO organized they planned meals to cook for 4 wks in Excel sheet with groceries budget! That’s one really scary family.
  • yeah i’m sort of an excel idiot sorry! do you have grid paper, that’s probably how i would do it!
  • Scientist discovered that multitasking at work is impossible. My advice? Close that excel sheet and focus on stalking your ex on facebook
  • If everyone fully mastered Excel there would be hyper-organized world peace.
  • New #SaaS #CRM customer tells us "Excel is so flexible, you can do anything with it. And that’s the problem!"
  • Is there anything more satisfying than finally getting an algorithm to work in excel at 2.00am after battling all night – I think not! #Nerd
  • Wahoooooooooooo! I got the stupid drop down list in stupid excel to work. Hurrah!
  • WHY DOES GETPIVOTDATA NOT ACCEPT A REFERENCE FOR ITS DATA_FIELD ARGUMENT? #excel #fml
  • Just discovered why my spreadsheet wouldn’t compute!! Why would one ever want to set Calculation Options to ‘Manual’ on MS Excel?!?! Grrr.
  • Knowing how to use complicated Excel formulas saves hours of work! Thank you google for letting me pretend I’m an Excel pro.
  • Nothing can beat the blend of Mike Tompkin’s voice, cheerios, and 290 excel spreadsheets on a cloudy morning. Happy Sunday!
  • They steal my spreadsheet & when they cant figure it out they have the cheek to ask me how to fix it.
  • Staring aimlessly at the excel spreadsheet in front of me *sighs and reaches for another chicken wing*
  • Fast becoming a spreadsheet junkie, it’s really not as bad as it sounds. Time to brush up on Excel VBA, now accepting resource suggestions.
  • If I had to pick one word to summarize my week, it would be this: "Excel" …not as in "to distinguish onself"; as in "spreadsheet overload"
  • Completely lost a massive Excel spreadsheet I was working on two weeks ago. It’s not even in the recent docs list. Did I just dream it?
  • Now that it’s part of my new job to work on facebook, I secretly read excel spreadsheets and minimize them when my coworkers walk by.

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Excel Twitter 20100917

hitchhikersguide That Douglas Adams spreadsheet doesn’t sound much different than some projects I’ve worked on.

  • Currently wrestling with an Excel spreadsheet. I have to admit, i wasn’t listening the day they taught us spreadsheets at school.
  • i think i’m done with work and excel today! no one died so far…
  • love a good spreadsheet πŸ™‚ makes my day especially if you get to use lots of colours and make keys and stuff
  • Coffee, chocolate and a spreadsheet#holytrinity
  • killing me softly with this Excel Spreadsheet…
  • I hate copiers, Excel, charts, and over airconditioned rooms.
  • Someone emailed me a 137mb excel file that should have been less than 1 because they didn’t resize the images. I hate stupid people.
  • three hours, eight pages, one cashflow spreadsheet, another GANTT diagram, and i’m only halfway through this assignment.
  • Guest list done!!! So happy my fiancΓ© is the king of excel. He made the process so much easier.
  • Douglas Adams in one of his books has software where you give the desired answer & the spreadsheet manufactures data to fit.
  • Today I created a excel spreadsheet with diagonal columns in it! When did I become an bleedin’ project manager! #fb
  • Okay, this job interview is a terrible idea. I just don’t understand what they want from me on this stupid excel sheet! I’m going home. πŸ™
  • Just correctly filled in a spreadsheet cell with the words LION, SOUL, and FOOD. Yup feeding lions your soul is now my business.
  • I won’t do Excel because the spreadsheet always looks at me up & down with those elevator eyes & that makes things uncomfortable.

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Excel Twitter 20100916

image Glad to know that I’m not the only person who has to calculate their age each birthday.

  • Making workout tracking spreadsheet at the laundromat. There’s a chance I’ve gone insane.
  • There’s a soundtrack in my head when the conditional formatted row turns green from red, sign that my balance sheet works.Got love for Excel
  • First morning back from vacation, and I’m already making a new spreadsheet. Ah, excel. How beautiful you are.
  • Excel has so many subtle ways to wreck havoc on your work. Just spotted a crazy combination of Excel saboteuring in this spreadsheet
  • I think we’ve narrowed down our next car purchase… And my nerdy excel spreadsheet is paying off.
  • explains why I use a spreadsheet to figure out my age each birthday
  • The FBI’s 2009 crime stats are out. I’m in Excel breaking them down now. I love getting clean data. #JurnoGeek #ComputerAssistedReporting
  • so true about MS Excel I love it now! At first it made me feel like I was solving a double jeopardy
  • 12000 plus rows with 20 columns. That’d be why your Excel spreadsheet is a little slow. /rolleyes
  • Just realized I could have used VLOOKUP instead of crazy nested IFs for basically all of that spreadsheet :I Why do I do that by default…
  • I want Excel to have cake charts. Pie charts are not sweet.. πŸ˜€
  • There is a special place in hell for the person who invented Excel macros
  • Do U at least have some Excel with you? For you I’d imagine THAT at least would be some comfort: the ability to make charts. πŸ˜‰
  • i become too dependent on excel’s pivot table i sometimes forget there are easier ways to get things done in excel. tsk, tsk.
  • hi mister excel..i’ll be spending two years to get to know you very very well. pls be nice. this is very important.

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Excel Twitter 20100915

image Twitter users don’t seem to have much patience for the elderly — and that’s probably anyone over 35! I’m old enough to remember that Easter egg, so I definitely fall into the elderly category too.

  • Excel 2010 thinks files from a mapped network share is an unsafe Internet location. Thx for trying to protect me from work, MSFT.
  • Getting over excited about Excel again. This is becomming a problem.
  • F11 in Excel creates a quick chart/graph who knew πŸ™‚
  • I just spent two hours working on an Excel chart. Yes, you read that right, TWO FREAKING HOURS. And it’s not even that nice of a chart.
  • no really, I LOVE showing the elderly how to use Excel…FML
  • At times, in life, I find myself confronted by an Excel pivot table.
  • Note to self: never ever use a shared Excel worksheet again. Each save takes about 20 minutes!
  • Last day at Microsoft. Wondering if I can find the source code for that flight sim easter egg in excel from back in the day…
  • someone in my office deleted two huge excel files from a shared drive and we have no backup. #fml #ineedadrink
  • YES! Huge messy workbook/Excel thing done for client trying to get big bank loan. My god, that was a LOT of data. My head hurts! #bookkeeper
  • This smooth jazz band playing across the street from my house is turning spreadsheet work into party time.
  • What year of Excel do you use? I’ve only ever learned 2003. I’m behind the times.
  • Just exported a excel spreadsheet to PDF, like a boss.
  • Just finished my extensive excel spreadsheet to track stats for the new NFL season. I know, I know its bad… a jock and a nerd.
  • I know its late but does anyone know how to work Excel? I’m having technical difficulties

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Excel Twitter 20100914

Commodore 64 I don’t usually include the tweeters’ names, but made an exception for the last tweet in today’s list. It seemed relevant, somehow.

  • OH HI … you work with computers. Can you fix my tv, my pc, my excel file, my bullet point? "It prolly takes u 5 seconds to do" 
  • really impressed by excel 2010 right now, grouping by multiple variables pivot table just works, and even looks pretty good!
  • analysing data from the largest spreadsheet in the upper North Island. (on a sat night!) Useful info though – our school community survey.
  • just spent an hour trying to work why my excel spreadsheet would not take away – realized that E4-G3 should have been G3-E4
  • I dislike when excel fails me πŸ™
  • I love my mac and am happy I switched over but I think Excel on the mac is going to kill me.
  • Engineering Economics professor told us to bring our laptops to do excel examples. Looking around and not a single person has excel open.
  • Excel is a really annoying program to work with. I think I hate Access more though.
  • The Wife loves spreadsheets. Ask her about them. Need to plan a vacation? Spreadsheet. Groceries? Spreadsheet. She’s on it.
  • There is no spreadsheet function to express how tired I am #insomnia #bites
  • Twitter needs an "Excel spreadsheet" view so i can keep it up on my desktop at work. The blue bubble letters are a little conspicuous.
  • The University of Toronto and their 100 player roster just about froze up my spreadsheet…That’s a full locker room right there.
  • with my newfound Microsoft Excel powers, i got bored and decided to make up some epic (imo) spreadsheet. hooray for boredom.
  • Showing my work ;), Math is shown in Excel. How I beat Calculus shown in CAD. Difference of .0014" #negligible http://twitpic.com/2n0p32
  • I just yelled at my Excel calculations "I can do this in multiplan ! you sad excuse for a spreadsheet !" -Multiplan,THAT is a long time ago.by C_64 (Commodore 64)

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Excel Twitter 20100913

image There might be a couple of things I’d need a spreadsheet to track — books, CDs — but certainly not nail polish!

  • I really don’t know why I’d need to do a spreadsheet while I’m on the go.
  • My boss refuses to let me make complicated tables in Excel–he insists on WordPerfect 7.0, an outdated version at that. >_<
  • Made an excel spreadsheet of all my nail polishes & put the file on my @BlackBerry so I don’t accidentally rebuy the same color. #KindaNerdy
  • I hate when people send me a copy of a pivot table instead of the real data. Such a PITA.
  • Is the average level of programming skill in a field correlated with the use of Excel plots?
  • I now have a job that seriously hampers my tweeting habit. And can I just add that if I see another excel spreadsheet this week I’ll vomit.
  • I’ve spent entirely too much time doing data entry today. It’s a love/hate with excel. Mostly hate.
  • survived my first week at new job! am improving in excel, but still not good on the early morning starts
  • Too much wine & too many internal revenue codes. Last time I did this I was trapped in an Excel spreadsheet cell in my dreams. #needsleep
  • I love my iPhone 4 just seems to know what music will get me through this excel nightmare this morning. #iPhone4love
  • Today should be interesting on no sleep. Opening Excel, starting a log to record all mistakes.
  • Is it just me, or is Excel evil? Every time I use it, I literally scream and punch my desk. Is that normal?
  • Well.. I’m hell bent on proving a point to my boss today. I’m using Excel to do it. I will "cell" my point. πŸ™‚
  • Need to make one of those exciting charts that Excel doesn’t support? Trick Excel. http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/NonNative.html
  • You don’t know how to do pivot tables and yet you claim to have an "advanced" knowledge of excel! #DontLieOnYourCV

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Excel Twitter 20100910

image There was a lot of love for Excel in yesterday’s tweets. Maybe it just looks attractive by comparison, after spending the week with an annoying boss and co-workers.

  • In spreadsheet purgatory, Id much rather be hanging out with a certain someine. My outfit is too cute to be sitting in class
  • Just finished making my timetable in Excel. Bloody hard work. I’m happy with it though; it’s sufficiently empty.
  • Ever try to "Hide" all the columns of an Excel spreadsheet? It will actually let you do it! (I can’t then unhide them) LOL #excel #fail
  • Excel sheets start looking beautiful when you work on them for hours together. So much time spent together, you start falling in love
  • Excel training was epic long! But I will pivot table and putting into formula every bloomin thing now coz I can!
  • making a gantt chart in excel… my life has peaked.
  • I ask that myself everyday when my coworkers/boss have no idea how to navigate Word or Excel. "Open. No, here. ‘Open’ Here"
  • I wrote an informative, competent-looking e-mail, sent it off, and realized I’d forgot to attach the spreadsheet that was the whole point.
  • Be careful. Excel gets temperamental… I work in it all day and tell it I love it each morning
  • I just got to give a tour of one of my monster excel workbooks at work. They oooh’d and ahhh’d at all the neat things I can make it do. Yay!
  • I currently love Microsoft Excel and all of it’s functions. *swoon*
  • having one of those ‘why don’t I just sleep all day and work all night’ all the time nights… think my excel third eye is starting to open
  • would feel for you, but deal with accountants who can’t work excel. thinking of going back to pencil and paper.
  • #Excel just can’t work with huge data bases! #Microsoft should release a special edition for analysts and ad agencies. Standard’s just awful
  • Things I love: I love when I find ways to manipulate cells and utilize several excel functions at once to make my job easier!
  • How the hell do you make a bar chart in excel it shouldn’t be this hard.
  • lunch is over. back to my glorious spreadsheet (which is now actually in Excel as opposed to scrawled on the back of waste paper).

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Excel Twitter 20100909

image Hmmm…math on paper and pencilled in comments – some people aren’t using Excel to its fullest capabilities. Good thing your sense of humour can get you through the workday, without resorting to Excel pain drugs.

  • Product Manager: Will you look at this Excel sheet? There’s a problem. Me: I will have to do math on paper to help you.
  • last weekend @ the #gorge my bf kept calling me a hippy – today i find mysefl at work staring at excel. sadly i’m not a hippy πŸ™
  • Got a PDF of a scan of a hand-annotated printout of an Excel spreadsheet. Can’t wait to pencil my comments and return via inner-office mail.
  • Thanks, Excel, I have to work though lunch. You owe me.
  • I need a 3rd dimension on my excel spreadsheet. Why isn’t the future here yet?!?
  • Whoops Boss alert… quick flick over to Excel
  • nobody knows how to properly format an excel spreadsheet anymore. it has different columns for a reason.I have to fix 320 entries b4 merging
  • Re-did my college timetable on Excel… Love using excel to make things look fancy.
  • Gah — epic pivot table fail! It’s officially time to drop it and give it another go later.
  • My husband sent me a spreadsheet to do #NFL picks. Um, I have no clue about the teams this year as I’m more of a #collegefootball gal. Help!
  • Have you checked out @Google Squared yet? It’s search results in spreadsheet form. Example: Search for "hurricanes." http://bit.ly
  • could you send me an excel spreadsheet of all the drugs you have which would help with the pain of excel πŸ˜‰
  • I love still being the MS Excel guru at work… just combine some (Iserror ) & (vlookup) and they treat you like a genius.ok geek probably
  • Excel, I hate you! You should build the spreadsheets yourself so I can go home & sleep. Gah. Okay,back to work. Oh ya internet come back on!
  • #WasThatMean I had summarized a bunch of data in Excel. Another office asked for the template I used, so I sent them a blank spreadsheet.

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Excel Twitter 20100908

image I don’t know what media glasses are, but maybe they’d improve my Facebook updates, or my Excel tweets.

  • I’ve been looking up cars & putting the information into a chart in Excel for like an hour, lol. I’m desperate and dreaming with some of em!
  • Why Excel? Why you make my life so hard? You cut my charts in two pieces -of course- when IΒ΄m running out of ink, n itΒ΄s late, n IΒ΄m tired.
  • Just got very excited about an Excel pivot table. I’m also covered in marker pen, been writing on walls and I’m wearing media glasses.
  • I rocked an excel spreadsheet! My ancestors would be so proud, I mean that is why they toiled so long and so hard right? So I could excel?
  • Gave some ‘sweet’ attitude email for not giving me the data I requested.Don’t play the ‘excel sheet’ doesn’t work game on me.I invented it!
  • Every time I open an excel spreadsheet my blood pressure goes up 50%. #shootme
  • I would love to learn how to use excel – I have friends that swear by it but I don’t understand it.
  • I love it when my pc is saying don’t work. It’s just crashed and closed my spreadsheets at least I got a nice msg from excel saying sorry.
  • today at work i’ve cleaned, and the rest of the day will go as such: excel, free lunch, excel, meeting, excel. :/ #spreadsheetlife
  • Getting my Pivot on… Excel can open your eyes to things you couldn’t possibly comprehend when working with raw data!
  • What a stupid idea! Excel is not good at all for writing much. I faced so many problems. Most of the time is just spent for fixing them.
  • Excel workbook crashing….why does it give you so many rows if it doesn’t want you to paste something into all of them at the same time?
  • I uttered a phrase today to my wife that she has NEVER heard me say: "I am anxious to finish this spreadsheet." No euphemisms – just Excel.

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Excel Twitter 20100907

image Yesterday was Labour Day in Canada, and Labor Day in the USA, so the Excel tweets were fewer than usual. Still, some people had a bad day, ranting at Excel, so they’ll be glad that the Monday mazes are over.

  • I just tried to scroll to the end of an excel sheet, you cant it keeps on going forever like the universe
  • Staring at a 7000 strong excel spreadsheet for over 4 hours = painful. Can I go home now? #Mondayblues
  • Also, if you’re doing things programatically anyway, R code is much cleaner than Excel and VBA. Though R syntax is a bit weird.
  • Enough. From now on, I’m referring to #Microsoft #Excel as Microsoft Inferior. Put it in your thesauri.
  • Updating my #orchid spreadsheet with new aquisitions and recently deceased plants #orchids #orchidelirium
  • okay I get it. those recurring dreams of mazes where I can’t find my way out. those might mean the excel files I was working on earlier
  • I switched to Mac in June. It was cake EXCEPT for excel, but i only use that once a quarter. i don’t even use a mouse anymore.
  • Nobody was designed to handle Excel πŸ˜›
  • London Blitz 1940: the first day’s bomb attacks listed in full. Map and spreadsheet http://bit.ly/asni3L
  • Aggressive ranting is never a good thing! Although I have been known to rant at my computer on difficult spreadsheet days. πŸ˜‰
  • sigh. reality check. *stares at stupid codes for stupid ms excel for stupid reasons*
  • heck yes. Experience: 6 years in office work, brief diversion into petty crime, familiar with Excel
  • I’ve just made an excel spreadsheet that does my homework for me. But it’s Statistics, so I’m pretty sure that’s OK. πŸ˜€
  • Spent all morning tagging tweets and now Excel decided to delete half of it. Thanks Excel. I love redoing stuff.

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Excel Twitter 20100906

image Happy anniversary to my parents! I’m glad they didn’t use a spreadsheet to figure out if they could afford me.

  • I love making super organized, color coded spreadsheets. Don’t ask why. I love excel. I love the tiny boxes. I love formatting. <3
  • Apparently Pringles don’t help you finish your excel spreadsheet. Wish I would’ve known a can ago.
  • Time to stop crunching numbers and go to bed. I do love excel but I’m not such a fan of data entry.
  • Oh, wow, can tile a picture as background to spreadsheet, who knew … now to decide *which* picture …
  • Excel charts can be lethal , head spinning endeavors #truestory
  • on conf call with Microsoft. user: "we need some kinda pivot table functionality", MS Rep: "We can give you that, we built that Excel thing"
  • I love that I’m in a world where I can listen to any song I want at any moment, but cannot export a PDF into excel.
  • Over the long Labor Day weekend, I’ll be brushing up on my Excel 2007 skills. Ask me about pivot tables on Tuesday.
  • I don’t often say this about anything Microsoft, but Excel rocks. Now I just wish someone other than me understood what my spreadsheet does.
  • Apparently trying to ‘Paste value’ for 2,200,000 cells crashes Excel. Who knew.
  • I’m taking an inventory of my knitting needles. Making a spreadsheet. #workavoiding
  • I work with Access & Excel. I want to shoot my machine at least 4 times a day. πŸ™‚
  • Just extrapolated the cost of daycare & diapers over the first 3 yrs of raising a child…holy money pit! Also, I love Excel.
  • Mac may trump PC in graphic design, but things get ugly when you are trying to use Excel for a Macro economics class. I love my PC.
  • Sweetness! I’m out early. I didn’t hafta stay longer ’cause I know how to work Excel.
  • note to self … spreadsheet calculations are better than my fat-fingered numbers on a calculator!
  • Just wrote "ESPN" in a spreadsheet for work. Meant to write ASAP. Did it again while typing this tweet. #footballseason

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Excel Twitter 20100903

image Hooray! It’s the start of a long weekend. Then, next week, we can get back to Excel, and our uber complicated code, and feel like the smart kids in class.

  • Either A I am getting old or B I am getting mature. I am happy I get to work in Excel this morning to build a report
  • What version of Excel are you using? If the charts in Excel 2007 aren’t sexy enough then your raw data must look really bad…
  • LoL @ me training this new old lady .. She barely knows how to work a computer .. Told her to open excel and she said "and what is that?"
  • I think I might be allergic to grids… and I live in New York and work in Excel. Hmm.
  • lol I lost my work schedule, so I tried to be slick & ask my boss if he’d email the Excel file. He hasn’t responded :l
  • I love writing uber complicated excel code and I don’t care who knows it!
  • Now that Museum is gone, I wonder if Terui Ryu will take a desk job at the station. He can work on spreadsheets as Kamen Rider Excel.
  • Today I get to visit the radiation oncologist AND wrestle a spreadsheet to the ground. Which one will be scarier? #thespreadsheetofcourse
  • I can do awesome things with MS Excel…. but now I’m stumped in trying to write code to import data from 150 workbooks in less than 30 mins
  • Woke up early to make a spreadsheet. Now I feel better. Haven’t even had coffee yet.
  • If you’re writing Excel VBA code NEVER USE CLASSES. Seriously buggy. Just make believe it’s 1970 and OOP hasn’t been invented yet.
  • the office temp just dissed my excel skills. I want to slap her with my keyboard. and then create a pivot table for the hell of it. and …
  • created my first pivot table today. who am I and what have I become?
  • Work roadtrip cancelled. A date with excel instead #zzzzzzz
  • I love Excel, its called Excel because its short for Excellent. They were gonna call it Microsoft Wicked, but they felt that was to dated
  • Uh oh, the one time a year I have to make a pie-chart for a presentation is coming up. Usually have to relearn it because Excel has changed!
  • How did I just realize I can make pixelated pictures in excel? Say goodbye to the remnants of my work productivity.
  • Microsoft Excel makes me feel SO stupid. Like the dumb kid in class who is way behind but pretends to flip pages like he/she is w/the class.

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Excel Twitter 20100902

image This is the first that I’ve heard of a problem with British spreadsheets, or at least the people who create them. Maybe they’ve been afflicted with 3D Insanity.

  • It’s official: My MacBook is useless and won’t even run excel anymore. Rich person problem.
  • Microsoft PowerPivot: Making Excel Analytics Work http://bit.ly/dtWcdI
  • Trying to show some excel homework who’s boss…I feel like I’m being defeated by a machine right now & procrastination hurts the equation!
  • Did Excel REALLY just eat an hour’s worth of work? Yes. Yes it did. Saved work even, it seems. *exhale* An exercise in zen.
  • I wanna work on the Microsoft Excel programming team; they have an amazing function room.
  • GAH! why are british peeps spreadsheet hellmongers?!!?
  • i work on Microsoft Excel all dam day………………..you can call me a smarty pants
  • A spreadsheet respite: Excel pivot tables are fun waiting to happen. But everything in moderation. πŸ™‚
  • I just helped a fellow co-worker with attaching an excel spreadsheet to an email. Really? It’s 2010! How can you not know how to do this?
  • password spreadsheet …. Isn’t that a really bad thing to have from a security point of view?
  • I hate the word spreadsheet.
  • Seriously, this date issue is the weirdest problem I’ve ever encountered in Excel.
  • I can practically touch the charts. It’s like I’m inside Excel!!!//End the 3D Insanity
  • I love microsoft excel and I’m pretty sure I know too much about it. You can do and create so many cool things with it.
  • My dear colleague figured out waterfall charts in Excel today – gnashing of teeth, lots of "why o why" and black magic. Excel is truly evil.

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Excel Twitter 20100901

image I didn’t send that tweet about 3-year-olds, but am still recovering from watching one last weekend, so I’d have to agree! Maybe a wine flight would help.

  • Man next to me spent the train journey repeatedly typing the figure 1212121212 into an excel spreadsheet. #fb
  • Looking after a (nearly) 3 year old is hard work! give me spreadsheets any day! although not quite so many hugs given by excel!!
  • The main problem is that this excel file will be used everywhere by everyone. It’s needs to be bulletproof.
  • stupid bloody 2007 graphs! Grrr! That’s my Excel rant for the day!
  • Big accomplishment for the day: Becoming a pivot table expert in Excel. My accomplishments get nerdier everyday.
  • School provides students w Excel 2003. Teacher provides info in Excel 2007 doc containing features that don’t work in 2003.
  • I can’t believe I didn’t know this B4, but there is an AVERAGE formula in excel! Here it is if u didn’t know =AVERAGE(xx:xx) …
  • Reading through some excel vb macro code and feel a sudden urge to be nnDscrptv in my Var Namng. Dim that! EOF(1)
  • Currently attempting to repair a huge, very stupid Excel error that could cost someone hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  • Updating an Excel spreadsheet that has been appended to since 2002. Thinking it should be converted to a web database or preserved in amber.
  • A spreadsheet without a pivot table summary, is data with no information
  • A 1,000 or so wines looks very different on an excel spreadsheet than they do standing shoulder to shoulder in flights. Epic #intervin prep
  • yes! He was taking abt excel charts. Very boring!
  • This extensive Excel spreadsheet and four days of research has led me to a surprising conclusion: I really don’t care.
  • Tableau connected to excel connected to a data cube via a pivot table. Things are getting interesting.
  • You can pivot table the hell out of anything but that doesn’t mean you should.
  • Me: So you’re telling me I worked on this spreadsheet all day, and one like it already exists? Butthead: Yes. Me: I’m going home.

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Excel Twitter 20100831

computer firePretty light day for Excel themed tweets yesterday. Maybe everyone was busy putting out computer fires.

  • Husb got a 32" LCD HD monitor. All I can think of is how AWESOME my Excel spreadsheet is going to look on it. #Loser
  • I didn’t check the spreadsheet before sending it to my boss. It’s Excel, of course it totaled correctly! #lifechangingtweet
  • My husband is setting up an Excel worksheet for me. We are a pragmatic people; this is how we show our love.
  • I heard many people claim #Microsoft #Excel is the best #spreadsheet app. But why I got error on this #VLOOKUP thing? #FAIL
  • at least you can use Excel to chart how many textbooks you have to buy before you run out of money.
  • when did i get addicted to coffee? oh thats right, when i spent 3 months of vacation work tweaking numbers in excel. over and over again.
  • Here’s the trick to Excel: tell people your computer caught on fire and you can’t do the spreadsheet. Problem solved.
  • Bad News: Can’t get out of Computer Essentials – I suck at Excel. Good News: My First Assignment is all in Comic Sans!! #sigh
  • anyone who does pivot tables is an excel ninja in my book.

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Excel Twitter 20100830

imageI’ve run into a few monster spreadsheet, but never a dingo, and none that were funerary coloured.

  • Gym or coffee or fruit shake or spreadsheet?
  • You are the first person ever to tweet me "I love Excel" You are either breathtakingly awesome, or a glutton for punishment.
  • This may be weird, but I am a bit curious. I opened up a 41oz bag of Starbursts, so I started a spreadsheet to track the flavor breakdown.
  • Just to clarify, this is via C#, where Excel interop is like a day at the proctologist.
  • When Excel is repeatedly crashing and reporting no memory, that’s a sign I’m not supposed to do this spreadsheet. Or so I tell myself.
  • Just helped my wife with some Black-Belt level Excel-Fu, Pivot Table style. *flex* *pose* HYYAAAAH!
  • Making the kinds of charts in excel you might assign someone in a 5th grade stats class. Oddly pleasant experience on a brain dead Friday.
  • I love my Mac. I love Excel. I do not love Excel on the Mac.
  • Take that, Excel! #dreamingOfTheDayICanForgetEverythingIKnowAboutExcel
  • Found out yday that my boss did really similar degree to me (fine art/critical theory) must be why we both a fear of Excel
  • When u save a worksheet backwards in Excel sometimes get msg-Loss of Fidelity. @johncusack Think that’d be a good sequel to "High Fidelity"?
  • I tackle most of my life problems w/ Excel, which has most effectively solved my "not working hard enough at being unlikably nerdy" problem.
  • Too many people call themselves future CEOs when they can’t even work a simple excel worksheet.
  • just had my mind blown by the awesome power of Excel pivot tables and filtering. Best part tho? I can gradient color code like a rainbow!
  • That Excel dingo ate my baby (spreadsheet). I’m hating Microsoft for multiple reasons now.
  • As a child you think there are monsters under the bed; As an adult you think there are monsters in your Excel spreadsheet.
  • Putting some pivot table kung fu to my wife’s consignment sales. She’s not impressed.
  • the premium-minded excel chart I painted was called "funerary colored" by the boss. so I googlized it. hahaha!
  • The numbers still don’t match. But the spreadsheet keeps looking nicer and nicer. Do you think that’ll work?

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Excel Twitter 20100827

image If I received that colourful Excel file from a client, I’d probably crack open a bottle of wine too. If you’re going to get a headache anyway…

  • If I had three wishes, one of them would be for Excel to display multiple rows of worksheet tabs.
  • This obv. my professor’s 1st time using a computer. Thas awesome seeing as the whole course is excel based
  • A company whose business relies on data mining is using Excel, no pivot tables, and horrible graphs is difficult to respect.
  • haha before my boss got to my dept. 2 yrs ago they had never seen a pivot table. We’re both like geniuses to these people
  • LOL my fake excel sheet worked… my boss was kind of surprised that i was actually working #asif
  • If you’d like to see the spreadsheet I’ve worked on for 3 weeks, let me know. I’ll have to remove all confidential data, it will be blank.
  • I was trying to randomly sort rows in Excel & no matter what tips I followed, it failed. Each solved problem led to another.
  • Donned my reading glasses in the hopes that the aura of wisdom will penetrate this nasty excel piece of work. *shakes fist at screen*
  • My boss at a previous job used spreadsheet cell borders to make diagrams. A part of me died that day.
  • excel is horrible. I can alway tell when the guy next to me at work is using it, because he starts swearing at bill gates
  • Things learned at work today: Microsoft Excel was made to make people want to get headaches and Kick Babies. True Story.
  • when I am a rich man, I will pay someone to do my laundry and all my Excel charts for the rest of my life
  • I’ll struggle through the day’s work if you will? *glares at Excel*
  • Damn.. Talk about a double-downer at work this afternoon. I’m staying late to play with Excel, & I won’t be going to Seattle. πŸ™
  • You know what’s scary is that I just opened up an excel spreadsheet full of mumbly jumbly and I actually understood what it meant oO
  • Very colorful excel spreadsheet I received from a client. It brightens up my office: http://twitpic.com/2idlsz
  • It’s 8 o’clock. Just opened a bottle of Pinot Noir. Getting comfortable. Got a hot date tonight with a really large Excel spreadsheet. #fb

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Excel Twitter 20100826

image It’s a good thing that I don’t have a spreadsheet allergy. They do make me laugh occasionally though, and not just the pivot tables.

  • I want a hot shower and a good spreadsheet. I am a woman of simple pleasures… That’s code for dork.
  • Made a pivot table joke in training today :)No one laughed πŸ™
  • Whoa! Why did I had to turn 32 before I discovered the magic of Excel pivot tables.
  • I spent most of this morning cracking an Excel spreadsheet. It’s like cracking the Da Vinci code but less fun and more formulas…
  • Why does Excel always crash on me? I give it so much love and affection an’ attention an’ it just throws it right back in my face πŸ™
  • I cannot represent the requested information in a spreadsheet. I need an N-dimensional space!
  • I opened Excel and showed Operations Specialist her graph options and it turns out she did not want a graph. She wanted a chart.
  • My 10+ yrs of work experience doesn’t teach me how to be a better excel user at all..
  • I love Excel more than is strictly healthy, but let’s face it: spreadsheets are an instrument of class war.
  • How come all good news always results in some kind of excel spreadsheet that I have to make – My hilarious boss.
  • And now Excel just closed down in the middle of me working on a spreadhseet. Just lost 20 minutes of work. Today is awesome.
  • okay i was stiffling a giggle there and a colleague asked me if i was okay i said its my spreadsheet making me go mad! lol x
  • I’ll get you my spreadsheet….and your little formula too!!
  • I just realized I have a spreadsheet allergy. I’ve been working in one for about an hour and I feel like crud.
  • funny how sloppy record-keeping turns into a detailed excel spreadsheet. I hate it when that happens!
  • 4 Marketeers, 3 finance bods and a legal bod to work out how to make a drop down list in Excel. I think we need training

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Excel Twitter 20100825

image Meetings, interviews, shonky data, and mad formulas — no wonder we’re losing brain cells!

  • What do professional procrastinators do when they are trying to avoid doing work? Think about it – when you’ve finished that spreadsheet.
  • it’s a problem of design, IMO: Excel allows one to do things which they really should not be doing in Excel in the first place
  • Did Excel test to see if I’m an ‘expert user’. However, their route to the answer is much longer than what I did. Do I get extra points?
  • Sitting in a meeting where there is a lot of talk ab numbers, staring at a spreadsheet with numbers. I need my highschool math tutor asap
  • The excel charts are a bunch of trash. My momma can do better than these!
  • Is it bad if I close someone’s access to an Excel spreadsheet on the file server, because they’re hogging it, without telling them first?
  • watching youtube videos on excel pivot tables. i better get that freakin job…..
  • I just saw the worst Excel macro-enabled workbook ever spawned. Guaranteed.
  • My husband keeps trying to show me his Excel spreadsheets he made for work….#idon’tcare
  • I would love to get the brain cells back I have wasted on Excel and Access
  • A solid days work and I’ve managed to imported 1.5 files from Excel to SQL. People who save shonky data need banning from computers.
  • why do you wanna work here? i dont. this is place requires excel. so i thought id get promoted quick #AndMyInterviewWasOver
  • Ah, #Excel. You’ve got to love those mad formulas that you come up with that only make sense to you and no-one else.
  • Boy do I love how @Microsoft apps freeze up my Mac as they load. It’s like a vacation, with the Excel splash screen instead of palm trees.
  • excel is still the one product that i love from MS. nothing even comes close.
  • need a master class on Pivot table if tou have any spare time πŸ™‚ will clap and go OOOOO as much as you want
  • Why can’t Excel have undo shut down not saved spreadsheet like firefox has undo closed tab

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Excel Twitter 20100824

image As much fun as a spreadsheet? I’m pretty sure that’s a compliment. Now I have to get back to working on my fall tv spreadsheet.

  • Right twitter. I am about to start some insanely dull number crunching work on excel. Expect swearing.
  • Rain, Gershwin, tube, coffee, Excel.
  • working on a spreadsheet #doodle. Much better than actually crunching the numbers. Will #twitpic it when I am done.
  • I am Betty Draper, and this spreadsheet is Sally.
  • 10 minutes to tell me you can’t complete the task with available resources? I love my #excel
  • We are required to take "excel training" at my job, even if you’re an advanced Excel user. Um, pretty sure I know how to open a spreadsheet.
  • Need to lay down in the sick room. Exhaustion and excel = me very dizzy…
  • Dear MS @Office, why are the default colours on an Excel chart so bloody awful? what’s wrong with genuine reds and blues? That is all.
  • There are focused, serious people on twitter, doing great work. But they’re often dry as toast, and abt as much fun as a spreadsheet.
  • Funny we keep hearing about the "ABC Election Computer" – sounds so 1950’s. I’m guessing it’s actually an Excel spreadsheet.
  • by the way, don’t worry i will do the spreadsheet. it’s how i control the unruly architects i work with.
  • Seriously had to make a spreadsheet with pictures to remember what to wear on my trips…
  • I love my wife. She’s punching up a spreadsheet of our Fall TV so we can prioritize for DVR and live viewing. #NerdyTVGuide
  • ok so who on twitter wants to teach a cute girl how to use V-Look-Up on Excel.. πŸ˜› i promise, i’ll be cute & act smart.. πŸ˜€
  • Who’d have thought a humble Excel workbook could bring a corporate workstation to its knees?

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Excel Twitter 20100823

image Ah, George Costanza — now there’s someone you want to take career advice from. He probably measured his Excel charts with a real-life ruler too.

  • Today I had to add a checkbox to an Excel spreadsheet. Tomorrow, contemplate life decisions that led me to this.
  • Definitely Excel. The spreadsheet is the official computer application of the Big 10 conference.
  • Our nerd wedding spreadsheet now shows guests’ locale as a chart. It also has a lookup table for who we need RSVPs from.
  • Being eaten alive by an Excel spreadsheet is certainly not a good way to go.
  • I would like to announce that I have just made a beautiful pivot table in excel following 3 hours of vertical lookups. Today was a schoolday
  • To a person who is visual and creative, an Excel spreadsheet is like the devil. The devil disguised in stupid formulas that don’t work.
  • I guess I should say I love Excel spreadsheets that *I* made. Coping w/ others can be (fill in the expletive).
  • I can create a 7x nested If statement in Excel, and have it work perfectly, but try and get a simple =IF(C3=F28,1,0) epically fails…
  • Having a hard time finding a solution to my Excel problem online when I don’t know how to describe what I want to do.
  • I can’t believe I just closed my excel sheet without saving it, a whole days work down the cyber toilet!
  • Yes, that IS me measuring Excel charts on my computer monitor with a real-life ruler. Do YOU know a better way to do it?!
  • Taught the partner I work for how to do complicated Excel functions. You know, like adding two numbers together and making a column total.
  • I have never written a line of Visual Basic code in my life yet i spent the last 5 hours debugging an Excel macro written in VB for work
  • Is it freakish that I have an excel spreadsheet saved to my desktop called ‘makeup’? 😐
  • Today, I used Excel to itemize and colour code a grocery shopping list.
  • Yes, yes, I know what a spreadsheet looks like. :)) But I need to know how to make one. πŸ™‚
  • Tip George Costanza style: if your chatting at work hit "enter" really hard, it looks as if you’re struggling with your Excel sheet
  • you know you’ve been working too hard when you have to get a spreadsheet out to explain a joke to your co-workers

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Excel Twitter 20100820

image Excel certainly brings out the violence in some people, but I’ve never heard of a death certificate being required before. Please, use your ninja Excel skills responsibly!

  • Having a tedious day at work, transferring handwritten ledgers into excel…I really wouldn’t blame you for unfollowing me after this.
  • Amazed @ the # of people who can’t do a simple column sort in excel & request me to re-send sorted data. 2 clicks is too much work for them!
  • How can you not love Excel and lists? Is that really OCD? I call it organized! Don’t you?
  • If you use Excel for graphing XYChartLabeler is a great add in – http://splink.me/FCZHVHbM – I’m plotting competitive landscapes today!
  • trying to use pivot tables in excel 2007 to evaluate reference statistics for our library. They look cool. Now, if I can make them work!
  • Dreamt I was stuck inside an Excel spreadsheet last night. Locked inside a cell, trying to work out the equation to get out…
  • Death Certificate from Waltham: obtained. Now, back to the excel spreadsheet #exceltweets
  • If another spreadsheet dares cross my path today I am going to rip it apart, cell by tiny numbery cell. Don’t say you weren’t warned, Excel.
  • is doing project managery things with charts in Excel. Anyone would think that I’m a professional
  • Automating things in Excel all day long. πŸ™‚
  • I just wrote an equal sign – starting to write an excel function. On a paper. With a pen. Expecting it to work. Been a long day.
  • Please, not another entire day of making charts in Excel…
  • Simple joy: MS Excel’s Pivot table tool.
  • a man with a spreadsheet can never be defated
  • My manager is making me stand behind him while he mutters numbers and calculations at an excel doc.

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Excel Twitter 20100819

image Nice to know that the yutes will take over all the Excel work, so we old people can relax. That will leave more time for Twitter, scotch and music!

  • This wmn is absurd. literally standing in her office cutting up a spreadsheet into strips instead of just copying & pasting in excel.
  • Teaching myself Excel, and crooning along much too loudly to "Piano Man". I should never mix scotch, music and late night work. Great song.
  • Excel has started to foil me. Well, not Excel. Statistics, generally. My head hurts.
  • Another night of problem solving and excel sorcery.
  • Ingenious ways to spread a virus – Here’s my account rec of our bills, it’s in lotus 123 but U can open in excel-seriously who falls 4 this
  • Another day, another spreadsheet. Seriously, does the world need another excel document?
  • 4 yrs of college. 4 yrs in the business world. almost 26 years old… may be time to learn how to use a spreadsheet. Excel is my kryptonite.
  • This 10+ hour excel spreadsheet project requires that I take many @twitter breaks so I don’t die of boredom.
  • I really REALLY hate starting with a blank spreadsheet. Why is there not a template for everything? YOU’VE FAILED ME, INTERNET.
  • My boss/mom failed when trying to make a schedule for work using excel, better leave the computer stuff to the youngin’s.
  • I’ve used almost every tool out there. And you know what I find works best? A good old Excel spreadsheet.
  • Anyone who says that I’m tweeting instead of reviewing a big spreadsheet full of uncertain and unrealistic costs is exactly right
  • work sucks. Old people don’t know meaning of the term "multitask." means I can watch YouTube and do excel docs at furious pace
  • Teaching pivot tables in Microsoft excel today! Nothing like analyzing sales data to really get the blood flowing. πŸ™‚
  • Just noticed this "spreadsheet" on a reporter’s desk: http://twitpic.com/2fxit3. "That’s how the cave men did it," he says.
  • Ok.. Have now started over again. Will make this spreadsheet work. I refuse to copy&paste all!I’ll rather eat my advanced excel certificate!
  • Staring at a ginormous spreadsheet this early makes me want to pour white out in my eyes
  • tried to work with Excel….but it doesn’t work really good…-.-

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Excel Twitter 20100818

image Sure, a date night with an Excel worksheet can be more fun than going to a movie. Just don’t end up in cell B52!

  • Working with cell B52 in Excel and started singing Love Shack. I’m such a nerd.
  • Had a movie date with some excel spreadsheets for work. They were more intellectually stimulating than guys I have watched movies with
  • my idea of fun while the wife is gone for the night: an excel spreadsheet, bloomberg.com and pandora
  • excel ruined my last 90 minutes. for a dead stupid chart
  • Three hours (and counting) trying to fix an errant excel spreadsheet. #usingmylawdegreewisely
  • I’ve forgotten how to work Excel! *Reaches for the hammer*
  • My pivot table won’t pivot. Screw it. I’ll make the numbers up.
  • Why does Excel 2010 still start with 3 sheets by default when creating a new workbook? Don’t ya think by now users know how to add one πŸ˜‰
  • do you have a sec for an excel question? My SUM command isn’t working? gives back #### symbols? any ideas?
  • Thanks for getting my computer running again. Now, while I have you on the phone, how do I get this Excel formula to work right?
  • I love this Sheet. Title of the L’Oreal Excel training module.
  • my daily routine at work after lunch: 1. Surf net 2. open an Excel sheet 3. stare at it until the air cond switches off at 6. fml.
  • At work chillin on my lunch break! I wish I would have Brushed up on Excel cause I bombed this test for a new position!
  • This spreadsheet is going to take me all the way until 4:30….. Actually 4:00… I’m chilln for the last hour of work
  • Just finished converting oddly formatted table in a PDF to 500 records in an #Excel spreadsheet. Lots of FIND(), LEFT(), RIGHT() and LEN().
  • Why can’t Excel undo what a Macro did? That’s stupid.
  • Dr Seuss clearly didn’t have excel spreadsheet to deal with ; )

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Excel Twitter 20100817

image I’m not a medical professional, but if Excel makes your blood pressure go up, you probably shouldn’t use it to track your blood pressure readings.

  • My yogi tea tag today says ‘Obey, serve, love, excel.’ By that they must mean my spreadsheets.
  • Someone went and deleted a whole block of formulas and data from my back up spreadsheet.
  • So bored and sick of this Excel workbook. As soon as I finish it they add more or change something! Eurrrgh.
  • I am on fire* at work today. (*metaphorically – I am just quite good at using Microsoft Excel)
  • Ever realize an Excel sheet is like..never ending?
  • My wife just finished 10 hours work and then accidentally deleted the excel file it was in from the USB key. Yuk!!!
  • A rainy day and a foreboding Excel spreadsheet gets me back on Twitter. Social media escaaaape!
  • Got some organising to do. On an Excel spreadsheet. This is all new to me. But definitely not exciting.
  • Dear excel having undo button next to save does not seem ideal… #fatfingers
  • Just made a spreadsheet of textbook prices. I feel so adult.
  • i’m still so amazed at how superbly awesome vlookup and pivot table are. excel ftw!
  • Dear Excel. I know I’m abusing you by having 18 spreadsheets open, but PLEASE stop complaining. I need you to work with me. Love, Chris.
  • excel training at work. fun times. (note the sarcasm)
  • Looked for a good #winmo app to track my #bloodpressure readings. Just using Excel. Can’t figure out how to make chart update though
  • I’m looking up youtube videos on Starcraft 2 multiplayer strategy. I’m an excel spreadsheet away from being permanently single.
  • Why do people insist on using a wide range of bright colours to categorise data in spreadsheets?? My eyes are melting… #excel #joy
  • Just been suggested to me that an excel file with the suffix xlsx is a bit risque. Think I work with some oddballs sometimes

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Excel Twitter 20100816

image You can’t merge cells in a shared workbook? There’s one good reason to share a workbook! And maybe that 303 pound quarterback should spend more time using the Text to Columns feature, and less time eating chocolate.

  • is working on a financial spreadsheet. "There’s too much bold and not enough color here."
  • I realize my new boss thinks I typed out hundreds of entries and calculated them by hand. It was a script and Excel’s auto fill features.
  • In a rush, too much coffee and not enough time, Excel, Monte Carlo simulations…just another sweet day at the office!
  • Wherever I work I am considered the excel king. Purely on my concatenation skills. You’re right it should be taught in schools
  • I discovered the awesomeness of pivot tables. I’m now an Excel junkie
  • Did they really have to change where EVERYTHING was in the latest ms office? Took me way too long to find the pivot table button
  • All im doing is filling up stupid excel sheets..a twitter break every 10 minutes is necessary
  • Sometime Excel is like magic if we know how to use it…just click and all done ! Love it…
  • Apparently I decided that our qb is 303 pounds after sorting only names in an excel spread sheet… Phbbbt
  • Thank God for the Text to Columns feature in Excel – I love it more than chocolate
  • Successfully created an Excel worksheet after never working with it for a decade. I are smart.
  • 95% of this project is turning out to be Excel grunt work, with 5% of it actually being coding. Ugh..
  • job please, im young, attractive and can use excel πŸ˜‰
  • instead of baseball cards, I have an excel spreadsheet!
  • something is wrong with me, I’m enjoying doing this excel chart…
  • Things I have learned today: If you "share" a workbook in Excel you can no longer merge cells. Merging re-engaged #TheMoreYouKnow #Booyeah

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Excel Twitter 20100813

image Now that you mention it, that spreadsheet does look like it was attacked by a psychedelic snail.

  • curse you excel charts, internet research, and the burrito i had for lunch! >:O
  • I found a disturbing excel formula used in a report at work =IF(AK47>0,"Deceased","") – no, we don’t sell AK47s
  • Spreadsheet programming sucks. Like, totally.
  • In the meeting I likened the colours on the progress spreadsheet to a trail left by a psychedelic snail. No-one shared my view.
  • I have this sneaking suspicion the other researchers won’t appreciate my color-coded spreadsheet, or its pastel color palette.
  • Yeah, so I get a little thrill out of finding a new use for a pivot table in Excel, what of it?
  • Work seriously making me question my undying love for Microsoft Excel. Too much of a good thing can be awful.
  • Just showed a coworker charts in Excel. May have changed both out lives. #awesomesauce
  • Just learned that the "Panic" button on tbs.com instantly turns your screen into an excel spreadsheet..for when your boss comes. #convenient
  • I wonder if the spreadsheet habit is a left-brainer’s version of making a mindmap to understand the big picture?
  • You know you work with data when you prefer to use excel for note taking.
  • You know your friends are bankers when "great day at work" stories begin with "so my boss gave me this project to do in Excel."
  • Why is the first real project at any job automatically a spreadsheet? I’m fine with excel, but honestly… It’s a worrisome trend!
  • Ah. Heh. My problem is employees who can’t remember things I’ve told them already, like "don’t try to open excel files in word". πŸ™‚
  • I wish I could lock a program as my desktop background. Mine would be a large Excel sheet for notes, data, & multi-stage computation. Yours?
  • Thanks you, Excel macros, for making my afternoon in spreadsheet land shorter. At least in the boring parts of spreadsheet land

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Excel Twitter 20100812

image That "Quit Without Save" thing has never happened to me. Well, not in the past couple of weeks, anyway. And why is a floppy disk still the icon for Save?

  • So apparently pivot tables, the ONE THING I knew how to do in Excel, totally revised in Office 2007. I continue to hate you, Office 2007.
  • Ctrl+D is a beautiful Excel keyboard shortcut that is missing from pretty much every other spreadsheet application.
  • I love it….we were just talking about having an Excel-off (like a dance off) in my office last week…
  • I think excel monoculture is dead. Too many other .xls-reading/writing programs. And macros don’t even work on Macs anymore.
  • I adore a new Excel spreadsheet – so symmetrical and comforting. Wha??? That is NOT weird!
  • Making a "quit without save" button in excel. I keep forgetting to save before testing the damn thing! 4th go… #fail
  • Attempting to choke down a triple shot latte in order to stay awake and finish this 10,000 row spreadsheet. #dead
  • I can’t believe I’m nearly crying over a spreadsheet… again!
  • i’dont wanna know any more about excel, vlockups, pivot tables, and poorly captured data, I just wanna go home and play some starcraft II
  • Yikes, I think I need a fourth monitor and a computer that can drive it at work! Way too many Excel documents!! #fb
  • The ladies at work were discussing MySpace today. Also, they don’t know how to find the summation of a column in Excel.
  • Seriously, I think this guy behind me thinks Excel magically calculates faster the harder you slam on the enter key
  • is enjoying the sparklines and win/loss single cell charts in excel 2010
  • yes, but rumors that my immune system can be hacked with an excel spreadsheet and a screwdriver are entirely unfounded.
  • read some news, ate some excel data sheets for breakfast. Now time to work!
  • Thirteen Excel spreadsheets open all at once, no problem. My last computer would have caught on fire.
  • If I had only applied myself better in Computer Applications 101 20 yrs ago I’d be able to make VLOOKUP work in this spreadsheet today.
  • coz of MAC, i feel like i’m stupid with EXCEL… i’m totally good with EXCEL xtually =.=

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Excel Twitter 20100811

monkey Snakes, crocodiles, hedgehogs, monkeys and dogs! Is this an Excel workbook, or a zoo?

  • My aunt puts everything she spends into an excel spreadsheet all highlighted and organized. I wish I thought like an accountant.
  • That pie graph has a hedgehog in it. A new article by @eyevonsa about playing video games in Office apps: http://bit.ly/c7nd8J
  • Finish spreadsheet? Or go to Taco King for Lunch and then finish spreadsheet?
  • FINALLY! I’ve managed to get my Vlookups working… I have a love/hate relationship with excel!
  • Excel pivot tables always count when I want to sum and sum when I want to count. #somethingonlyanaccountantwouldcomplainabout #in
  • Catching snakes and crocodiles is a much easier thing to do than making Excel for Mac work.
  • Give me 20 monkeys, 5000 flash cards with random computer code on them and one week and I’ll produce the functional equivalent of MS Excel.
  • This is cool. And handy. 2010 College Football Helmet Schedule. All conferences. Excel spreadsheet. http://bit.ly/cMGKQU #NCAA #SEC
  • good to see that work ethic… A good bottle of Pinot goes well with excel spreadsheets.
  • Geeky rant: I really, really intensely dislike the latest Excel. Everything was fine before. I’ve used it for months and still lost. Wahhhh
  • I <3 excel! It (like a dog) can tell when you don’t like it & will react accordingly. Give it love, & it will love you back.
  • The trick is, to make this one spreadsheet look like 2 hours work!! #slackertips
  • finally onto the July tab in my Excel spreadsheet!
  • You can’t sort an excel spreadsheet by color so why would someone set it up that way? Thanks moron!
  • I can relate. because I work with "scientists" who don’t know how to use basic excel functions
  • Just googled ‘cool things to do with pie charts in excel’. ;__;

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Excel Twitter 20100810

image I hope the epic guy and the simplify guy don’t work together. And is it just me, or do you find it funny that Lotus made a car named Excel?

  • Added a 2nd monitor to my pc setup. How did I live with only 1? Excel just became more sexy.
  • just made a mistake in a spreadsheet that would have overcharged by 40k. Oops! Good thing someone noticed…
  • About to create the most epic spreadsheet ever made by man #resonate
  • attempting to simplify spreadsheet reports
  • I am now famous because of "creative" spreadsheet editing. LOL. http://ow.ly/2mWQz
  • christi and i did this using excel: there are 61 johnson’s (excluding ochocinco) in the NFL, and 54 williams’s.
  • I wish life were as easy to use and work as Excel… #Engineer #ExcelMakesMeHappy
  • Guess my intro to excel class paid off. I just fixed our budget spreadsheet. Now…if only I could explain how I did it….
  • i love how in excel you ctrl f and type a word, get no results…then look at the sheet and find that word right under the search box…
  • Cleaning up a MASSIVE spreadsheet without a mouse. Using the touch-pad. My right hand is going to cramp up and fall off any second now.
  • I just visualised a brief bit of code analysis I did today to my team through interpretive dance. Excel just didn’t seem appropriate.
  • Dear Excel, Kindly stop "encountering a problem" and closing every 5 minutes. You are making me want to throw my computer out the window!
  • Just spent 10 mins huffing and puffing at Excel because the data in my pivot table kept disappearing before realising freeze panes was on πŸ™
  • Autocar magazine 16/4/1983 featurign Lotus Eclat Excel http://is.gd/e8S6F

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Excel Twitter 20100809

image Should you really be using Twitter during an Excel test? I don’t think so. Using Excel for wedding vows seems like a great idea though.

  • You know you work in Consulting when you talk about Excel and the excitement of getting a new laptop during dim sum :/
  • Oh cool, I’m done with data entr- THERE’S ANOTHER WHOLE SPREADSHEET!?!?! NOOOOOOO
  • Can I just say that I love PivotTables in MS Excel? Took a while to get ’em but now: data analysis has never been more fun.#ShamelesslyNerdy
  • Yes, I know I am the "tech guy" at work but interrupting my busy schedule to add five rows to your Excel spreadsheet isn’t helping anyone.
  • During the Excel test, I tried to hide my incompetency at spreadsheet formulas by using jazzy text directions and shading colours. Bad move.
  • Having a pretty intense love-hate relationship of the "What would I do without you? OMG, I hate you!" variety. It’s with Excel.
  • No netbook, yet, so I’m doing my Excel spreadsheet for work ON MY PHONE. Because I need to catch up. And it’s killing my life.
  • I think I’m addicted to excel. There’s ALWAYS a reason to create a spreadsheet.
  • I’m not playing air piano, I’m practicing Excel hot keys.
  • Matt’s grandpa built an excel worksheet for scheduling. Self updates and more intuitive than outlook. #awesomegrandpa
  • Hee! Now, one *could* take that as a writing challenge. How to successfully integrate a pivot table into your novel?
  • Writing some nested IF functions to settle the stage show ticket sales and sponsorship details. Isn’t Excel fun to play with? πŸ™‚
  • Just learned how to use the auditing tools in #excel. I’m in love! Instant formula checking πŸ™‚
  • One error was just an accidental click & drag on Excel. Easy to fix but freaked out boss
  • Google any question you have, and add ‘Excel’ to the query. There will be an Excel worksheet for it.
  • I’m killing this Excel test right now..
  • The other night I dreamt that Brian was using a spreadsheet to put together his wedding vows.

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Excel Twitter 20100807

Wow, cookies never magically appear when I’m working on a spreadsheet. Maybe it was just a hallucination, caused by spreadsheet madness.

  • U know ur in the land of the geeks when u over hear somebody telling their spreadsheet, "oh, come on baby"
  • Used my first spreadsheet today. How cool are they? I say used as I haven’t worked out how to make one!!! ;0)
  • sometimes, when creating a spreadsheet template, it is possible to overthink it. #justsayin
  • Ok be honest, did you know that a single cell in Excel spreadsheet is limited to 1024 characters? Wonder how they picked that number?
  • Is there such a thing as spreadsheet madness? #fb
  • Spreadsheet, database, whatever. It’s all the same, right? See also: Passport vs. library card.
  • Β£235m government database shut down. I could have made them a nice spreadsheet for half that. With different colour fonts and all that jazz.
  • So I was walking along northumberland street thinking about an excel problem I’m having. An idea hits me, I could do a massive pivot.
  • I have clearly been absorbed in this spreadsheet. A cookie just appeared next to me, and I have no idea where it came from. #fb
  • just figured out I could save chart templates in excel…. yrs of life gone reformatting graphs… #MoreTimeForTwitter
  • everytime i resize a cell, excel recalculates everything, how am i ment to work under these conditions?
  • So proud of myself for using a macro in Excel! I didn’t even know what that was 5 minutes ago and now it saved me hours of work
  • Trying to set this spreadsheet on fire with my mind
  • you are prettier than the most wonderful spreadsheet ever made with lots of formulas and perfect formatting x

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Excel Twitter 20100806

Sitting in the backyard, while drinking wine, sounds appealing, but I’d be napping, not working on a spreadsheet.

  • Twitter, please be exciting today. I’m at work and i have a headache and excel is making my head spin. Distractions pls.
  • The Excel function "match" simply doesn’t work and I can prove it
  • I get to do some vba coding for Excel – likely doesn’t sound too exciting for many people, but I love it!
  • Does anyone know how to split cells on excel? Just got asked how at work and it was a massive fail.
  • Trying to remember how some old VBA code in Excel works (I know, I should comment my code properly!)
  • Nothing like sitting out in the backyard, in the warm summer heat, working on a big spreadsheet. (and drinking red wine)
  • true story: project at work has locked/pw protected status cells in excel so the project cannot be anything but green. EVER.
  • come on log out of twitter – people want emails answered & spreadsheet forecasts completed ……………
  • Now I am off to address the first issue on my life-sorting-out Spreadsheet. In the pub.
  • I do like giving Excel advice ~ it’s very pleasing being asked to share my love of Excel … am I weird?
  • 7 different people in S Africa have emailed me the same Excel problem for a quote. I think it must be homework time again in S Africa
  • Home and hungry again already… I can also say that was the first time I’ve helped someone with an Excel spreadsheet at a Wendy’s
  • TAKE THAT VLOOKUPS!!!!! Pivot Tables, you better watch out, you’re next. #excel #spreedsheets #thereisagodandheisaspreedsheet
  • Don’t you hate it when you spend ages making a spreadsheet full of results and then find a button that makes the same sheet in seconds.
  • I cried while doing excel. I can’t believe it.
  • I get a little angry when Excel doesn’t predict what I am going to type. #irelytoomuchonautofill

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