{"id":115,"date":"2009-05-01T21:35:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T01:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:36:42","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:36:42","slug":"excel-twitters-20090501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/01\/excel-twitters-20090501\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090501"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have dataviz fantasies? Does Excel fulfill them? Would you accept a second date if it asked? Maybe that accountant told a TRIM joke, and that\u2019s why the second date was refused.<\/p>\n<p>At least no one is blaming Excel for the swine flu. Yet.<\/p>\n<h3>Dataviz Fantasies<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Excel is not fulfilling my dataviz fantasies.<\/li>\n<li>Do not present site analytics via an Excel spreadsheet. The numbers tell a story, so you need to tell us a story.<\/li>\n<li>I could build you a data center, move you to vm, migrate or build any email system out there, but can&#8217;t make a graph in excel. is that sad?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Beautiful Mind<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m realizing I can&#8217;t even do basic math without excel .. Technology is making me stupid.<\/li>\n<li>Do you think listening to the &#8220;A Beautiful Mind&#8221; soundtrack will help me with the excel spreadsheet I am working on? Yea me neither.<\/li>\n<li>Finally sleeping after realizing I couldn&#8217;t figure out excel in one sitting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social Skills<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He was an accountant and loved Excel; she was a poet. He organised his tinned food by expiry date. He asked for a second date; she said no.<\/li>\n<li>have taught mum how to use excel&#8230; until next time she goes to use it<\/li>\n<li>Pickup lines you seldom hear: &#8220;Are you proficient in Microsoft Excel?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>what do you say when a friend approaches you and says:&#8221;My mother just gave me an excel file breakdown of how much i owe living with her.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>75 Simple Pieces<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Not at all. Many of us believe that Excel&#8217;s best function is merely to serve as a calendar-schedule for tiny football helmets.<\/li>\n<li>I created an Excel spreadsheet and broke down what needs to be done to make this place perfect into 75 simple pieces.<\/li>\n<li>Just spent two hours catalogging all of my comics into an Excel spreadsheet. It felt good and nerdy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The VBA Twist<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>some of us are reduced to hacking VBA for the employment of our colleagues who then bizarrely prefer it to the *proper* software!<\/li>\n<li>is reading a book on VBA for excel. Excitin&#8217;. Waiting for the twist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Excel at Work<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>infact, why can&#8217;t all internet pages which we shouldn&#8217;t be on at work be disdguised as Excel Spreadsheets&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Doing Excel work to satisfy Micro Management Addiction (not mine).<\/li>\n<li>More Excel training for things I already know followed by teaching myself SPSS. Government efficiency, people.<\/li>\n<li>is anyone familiar witht he &#8220;mail merger&#8221; feature on excel? I might have just agreed to everything during an interview and am not sure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Trim Your Formulas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>if anybody knows an alternate formla to reproduce excel&#8217;s TRIM function without using TRIM, please let me know<\/li>\n<li>never trust somebody else&#8217;s Excel formulas&#8230; just found HUGE mistakes that could have cost us thousands of dollars&#8230; luckily I like Excel<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t believe that in over 20 years of using Excel and other spreadsheets, I&#8217;ve never chuckled over the trim() function. Heh-heh, &#8216;trim&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have dataviz fantasies? Does Excel fulfill them? Would you accept a second date if it asked? Maybe that accountant told a TRIM joke, and that\u2019s why the second date was refused. At least no one is blaming Excel for the swine flu. Yet. Dataviz Fantasies Excel is not fulfilling my dataviz fantasies. 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