{"id":128,"date":"2009-06-12T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2025-08-21T08:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:57:14","slug":"excel-twitters-20090612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/12\/excel-twitters-20090612\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090612"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MacGyver, coffee cake and Klondike bars\u00a0 \u2013 Excel goes with everything. There were lots of interesting Excel related tweets this week, as you can see. And no, that wasn\u2019t J-Walk who got the &#8220;I Love Excel&#8221; mug, but he must have a twin somewhere. Or maybe it was <a href=\"http:\/\/peltiertech.com\/WordPress\/miscellaneous-notes-for-11-june-2009\/\">Jon Peltier<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s his birthday today.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out Mike\u2019s new Excel and Access blog, Bacon Bits, and tell him that he should get a Twitter account \u2013 I\u2019m sure he could be just as entertaining in 140 characters or less.<\/p>\n<h3>Why It&#8217;s Called a &#8220;Spread&#8221; Sheet<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A frustrating and BORING admin day. Mainly working in Excel *groan*. I would like some coffee and walnut cake to make it less Snoresville<\/li>\n<li>Chillin&#8217; on a high dose of NCIS after a jalape\u00f1o chicken kebab and helping my son with Excel charts. XLNT!<\/li>\n<li>Massive excel project to do. All nighter? Check. Massive bottle of coke? Check. Sanity intact come morning? Um&#8230;we&#8217;ll see<\/li>\n<li>A tasty ice cappucino with caramel syrup and my excel problems are solved \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>excel spreadsheets, shipleys doughnuts, coffee, and good music = a great morning!<\/li>\n<li>Reading BaconBits, new Excel and Access blog by Mike Alexander of DataPig<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Yikes!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Only the power of Microsoft Excel and my highschool physics notes can save me now!<\/li>\n<li>Do you hate it when someone touches your screen? as in pointing out a number on excel? I do.<\/li>\n<li>479 beers in the excel spreadsheet, take one down, put it in the database, 478 beers in the excel spreadsheet. #Tedious #boring #horrible<\/li>\n<li>Strange design brief &#8211; &#8220;using excel, make this spreadsheet look like it&#8217;s been designed in a high-end graphics package&#8221;. Yikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Colourful Charts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yorkshire and Humber Euro result pie chart . Excel&#8217;s crap, but a I got the colours to match the parties.<\/li>\n<li>I make a lot of charts in Excel. Found http:\/\/www.colorbrewer.org and I no longer fuss with effective color schemes. Perfect!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PIV-OT!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The world is full of fools that don&#8217;t know how to use excel, but as soon as they learn how to do a pivot table, they think they are pros!<\/li>\n<li>me v Excel. I&#8217;m launching pivot table bombs, it is responding with devastating #VALUE! Missiles<\/li>\n<li>can&#8217;t do a pivot table without thinking of Ross screaming &#8220;PIV-OT&#8221; while moving in a couch on that episode of Friends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Creative Arts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>found in an cell J125 of an excel file today: &#8220;why didn&#8217;t i just listen to my mother &amp;&amp; become a rapper?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>For my birthday I got a pair of sandals, a banjo and an &#8220;I love Excel&#8221; mug. I love them all but fear that makes me some kind of demographic<\/li>\n<li>hate some documents like boring excel lists you dont need anymore? destroy them in a creative way. http:\/\/the-unloader.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Nifty Tools<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I love the J-Walk &amp; Associates Conditional Row Delete Add-In for #Excel. Saves me at least 1 hour a week.<\/li>\n<li>Excel Users, CRM &#8211; watch this company&#8217;s tool &#8211; best I have seen yet (and use it):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Flush With Success<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How did I plan the menu at my wedding? Ask people for their choices, then aggregate popularity with an excel spreadsheet. But still a pain.<\/li>\n<li>reviewing an excel spreadsheet of 1500 profane words you cannot use to describe what you&#8217;d do for a klondike bar. my job is fun.<\/li>\n<li>Feeling more productive lately, fixed Ashley&#8217;s toilet, created an excel spreadsheet to calculate my cost of living, and writing a song \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>MacGyver Vs. Google<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>developing a complex thing with VBA feels like being mcguyver that uses duct tape and a pocket knife to build an airplane<\/li>\n<li>my excel VBA skills are as sharp as ever. Only took 20 mins to figure out how to access a custom workbook property (incl. googling time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacGyver, coffee cake and Klondike bars\u00a0 \u2013 Excel goes with everything. There were lots of interesting Excel related tweets this week, as you can see. And no, that wasn\u2019t J-Walk who got the &#8220;I Love Excel&#8221; mug, but he must have a twin somewhere. Or maybe it was Jon Peltier &#8212; it&#8217;s his birthday today. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/12\/excel-twitters-20090612\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20090612&#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-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}