{"id":105,"date":"2009-03-27T21:27:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T01:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:28:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:28:28","slug":"excel-twitters-20090327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/27\/excel-twitters-20090327\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090327"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of tweets about the Excel Hell video this week. I didn\u2019t find it too funny, but apparently lots of other people did. Apress tweeted about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1430218983?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=contextures-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1430218983\">Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=contextures-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1430218983\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> . I did the technical review, and got my copy this week. And I don\u2019t think my kids are bragging in Twitter about my pivot table skills, but it\u2019s nice to know that parents are appreciated.<\/p>\n<h3>Excel Hell<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Website is Down episode 2 &#8211; Excel Hell <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3sTH\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3sTH<\/a> I love these videos.<\/li>\n<li>Dante didn&#8217;t know about Advanced Excel training courses in dark basements.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe lifting the 65536 row limit in Excel wasn&#8217;t such a good idea. Just lets people create bigger monstrosities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Significant Value<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>can&#8217;t beat pen\/paper, but if you must add electricity, use excel.<\/li>\n<li>excel 2007 has a camera feature&#8230;i am both officially over excel 2003 and officially a huge nerd\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Excel isn&#8217;t such a burden with the right numbers. \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>value of calculus in real world: negligible. value of microsoft excel in real world: significant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pivot Table Fu<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anyone ever have a pivot table disappear? Mine just died or escaped&#8211;not sure which. \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>pivot table is awesome, but i have a feeling it&#8217;s at the expense of my lifespan.<\/li>\n<li>pivot tables is the evil tool that makes excel actually useful, but at the same time adds a layer of challenge to MS Office.<\/li>\n<li>I go to my Mother for any and all Excel-related shennanigans. She out-geeks me on it by far, her pivot-table-fu is strong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Excel Is For Finance<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hot off the press: Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups by Tom Y. Sawyer <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dkzlrj\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dkzlrj<\/a><\/li>\n<li>trying to create a MS Excel Marco for parameter estimators for the Munich Chain Ladder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Or Not<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Compiling list of cat names, for the droves of cats that I will enevatably spend the latter of my life with. Maybe I should do this in Excel<\/li>\n<li>I think most video game players would be shocked at how much time game designers spend staring at Excel.<\/li>\n<li>Is it possible to make an Excel document outlining where to put food in a pantry? Answer: a surprising yes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Chart Obsession<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>i have a strange obsession with making charts on excel. and making them perfect and exactly identical.<\/li>\n<li>When Excel can not be hammered into compliance: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraphsketcher\/\">http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/applications\/omnigraphsketcher\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Help Needed<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I need help learing EXCEL, gotta know it by Friday&#8230;.can anyone help me?<\/li>\n<li>need a soundtrack to some excel spreadsheet action- thinking secret of my success, any other suggestions\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of tweets about the Excel Hell video this week. I didn\u2019t find it too funny, but apparently lots of other people did. Apress tweeted about Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups . I did the technical review, and got my copy this week. And I don\u2019t think my kids are bragging &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/27\/excel-twitters-20090327\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20090327&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}