{"id":111,"date":"2009-04-17T21:32:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:33:19","slug":"excel-twitters-20090417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/17\/excel-twitters-20090417\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090417"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big excitement in Twitter this week was the release of SpreadTweet, a Twitter tool that looks like an Excel file.\u00a0 There were a few tweets about Office Palooza, Microsoft\u2019s VBA programming contest, and links to interesting add-ins and Excel related articles.<\/p>\n<p>And I didn\u2019t know where Federation Square is \u2013 there\u2019s lots to learn from Twitter.<\/p>\n<h3>Arbitrary and Dumb<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Reviewing project budget planning and trying to get my Excel groove on &#8211; sadly I don&#8217;t have one.<\/li>\n<li>What kind of printing house *needs* the file to be in MS Excel to be able to print a 16&#8243; x 30&#8243; poster?! It&#8217;s insane I tell you! Insane!<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll take &#8220;Math I don&#8217;t understand for $200 Alex&#8230; &#8220;=(+C3*D3*E3)\/1000000*F3&#8221; WHAT IS &#8220;USELESS INFOMATION spit out by Excel!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I must have been stuck in email too much today &#8211; was just searching for &#8220;Mark as read&#8221; for an Excel column instead of &#8220;Hide&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Why would Microsoft put a 255 character limit on footers in Excel? Arbitrary and Dumb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Way Too Many Charts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nice Excel add-on from BonaVista systems for doing clean charts. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3PA30l\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/3PA30l<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn R Toolkit by Kelly O&#8217;Day to help Excel users make advanced charts in R is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dzsbbk\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/dzsbbk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>just found out some funny behaviours in Excel.Chart.applyLayout()<\/li>\n<li>Waaaaay too many Excel charts for one evening. I wonder if I&#8217;ll dream in &#8216;default color&#8217; tonight. Zzzzzzzz time now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>It&#8217;s Like Square Squirrel Soup<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I hate excel 2007. It&#8217;s like Federation Square &#8211; they hid all the useful things behind a complicated shell of faux-sexiness.<\/li>\n<li>Learning how to manipulate these hoary excel forms is like learning to milk squirrels. Difficult, possible, unlikely to be useful in future.<\/li>\n<li>I used to work for a company where many excel spreadsheets were linked to Oracle databases. It was like eating soup with a knife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>MVP News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Excel User Conference: First day report from Simon Hurst, covering fairly general topics <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c4xa6l\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c4xa6l<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blog: Excel MVP Highlights External Data <a href=\"http:\/\/cli.gs\/1aMB49\">http:\/\/cli.gs\/1aMB49<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>All Atwitter<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>lookup dick kusleika &#8211; he has been using excel for twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VwKow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VwKow<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trying my first message. I&#8217;m at my desk doing Excel graphs.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to look as though you&#8217;re working on Excel spreadsheets but are actually on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/11axV9\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/11axV9<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sharpen Your Skills<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I wrote an article for MSDN Mag about converting to VSTO\/.NET from VBA, if writing VBA makes you feel dirty <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Xf5u\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2Xf5u<\/a><\/li>\n<li>VBA is my anti-alzheimer treatment.<\/li>\n<li>Office Palooza: Join the contest to test &amp; sharpen your VBA programming skills!: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cm2clg\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/cm2clg<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Did a tiny amount of VBA coding &#8211; the research on how to do it took many times the effort of the actual coding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Enterprise Mashups<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Are Enterprise Mashups the successor to Microsoft Excel? @johncrupi thinks they might be: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/8yNR\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/8yNR<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Listening to designers try to modify an Excel spreadsheet is probably the funniest part of my day. Thanks for putting me in the design cube.<\/li>\n<li>Turns out temping is pretty boring. However, I feel confident that one day my vast knowledge of Excel will allow me to take over the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big excitement in Twitter this week was the release of SpreadTweet, a Twitter tool that looks like an Excel file.\u00a0 There were a few tweets about Office Palooza, Microsoft\u2019s VBA programming contest, and links to interesting add-ins and Excel related articles. And I didn\u2019t know where Federation Square is \u2013 there\u2019s lots to learn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/17\/excel-twitters-20090417\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20090417&#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-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","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=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}