{"id":132,"date":"2009-06-26T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T01:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:50:21","slug":"excel-twitters-20090625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/26\/excel-twitters-20090625\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090625"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excel wonks? I\u2019m not sure what those are, but I hope it\u2019s a good thing! There were a few interesting links in the Excel tweets this week, and some creative similes. One person has been using a workbook for the past 10 years. I\u2019m sure you have a few Excel files that are older than that! Are there some really old ones that you still use regularly?<\/p>\n<p>And those guys are way too late with their idea for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Excel-Pivot-Tables\/17548516951\">pivot table group in Facebook<\/a>. But maybe they could organize a Twitter campaign to get Excel fixed. Now, I\u2019m off to work on some Mad Libs.<\/p>\n<h3>Excel Wonks<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I know, I know. bacon done&#8230; sandwich eaten. Progressing to the Excel spreadsheet and filtering data, hmm.<\/li>\n<li>Another good site for fellow excel wonks &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/tiptech.html\">http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/tiptech.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>I make more Excel spreadsheets by 9 AM than most people make all day. The few, the proud, the former-Marines-who-now-work-in-a-cubicle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Little Shop of Horrors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>This workbook has gone from merely having a size complex to just being stroppy. It&#8217;s like a difficult tennager.<\/li>\n<li>Forced to use Excel today. It&#8217;s like going to Steve Martin&#8217;s dentist character from Little Shop of Horrors.<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with Microsoft Excel 2000 is like using flint tools to skin a bison. Frustrating.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Thanks for the Feedback<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hell is spending 30 minutes and counting on the phone trying to teach my dad how to sort a column in Excel.<\/li>\n<li>When the Microsoft Office Excel recovery programme also crashes, you know you&#8217;re in for a world of pain<\/li>\n<li>Amount of time spent in Excel &#8217;08 today: 20 minutes. Approx portion of that time spend sending feedback to MS about this crappy program: 67%<\/li>\n<li>Outlook is broken and these folks want Microsoft to fix it: <a href=\"http:\/\/fixoutlook.org\/\">http:\/\/fixoutlook.org\/<\/a> How about EXCEL? Fix Excel\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Chart Wizards<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I sworn I&#8217;d never be that guy, the guy who sits in a cube all day making Excel pie charts and bar graphs &#8211; yet here I sit&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Really geeking it up today &#8211; Interesting way to do Multiple-baseline charts in excel <a href=\"http:\/\/peltiertech.com\/Excel\/Charts\/StackedLine.html\">http:\/\/peltiertech.com\/Excel\/Charts\/StackedLine.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Excel&#8217;s Chart Wizard is the Mad Libs of statistical graphics: template-driven and frequently yielding ludicrous results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Zillion Years of Excel<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Number crunching for the past zillion years! The guy who invented excel in 1985 is single handedly responsible for birth of mgmt consulting!<\/li>\n<li>You made me laugh. &#8220;Excel obsolete soon?&#8221; Spreadsheets jump started the PC revolution. They&#8217;re not leaving anytime soon.<\/li>\n<li>I just started an excel spreadsheet around 10 years ago and have kept using it since.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dog\u2019s Breakfast<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>no need for Illlustrator, Excel is all you need <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/No1Jg\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/No1Jg<\/a> (via @jzy) Insane YouTube vid, wonder how long it actually took.<\/li>\n<li>Made an excel spreadsheet for all the medicine my dog has to take twice a day&#8230; We&#8217;ll see how he likes those pills at 4 am tomorrow\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Writing data extraction routines to create skills database. As usual data captured in stupid way in spreadsheet. Excel refuge of the sloppy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A Typical Tuesday<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>As one entrepreneur told me, \u201cWith a couple of beers and an Excel spreadsheet, you can make a lot of money in no time.\u201d \u2013 WSJ<\/li>\n<li>Just got a job offer from the Scottish Parliament using VB.NET and VBA &#8211; dont know which is worse :S<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon agenda: Clean up this excel grid, go meet Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor, finish weekly POS report. You know, just your typical Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Meet Girls<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>maybe we should start a pivot table group on facebook. great way to meet girls probably huh? \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t trust anyone over thirty. At least when it comes to word or excel.<\/li>\n<li>please remember that the last guy I went out with won me over with, &#8220;What&#8217;s your favorite Excel function?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Create an interactive whiteboard Jeopardy game easily using Microsoft Excel. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/kD0KU\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/kD0KU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel wonks? I\u2019m not sure what those are, but I hope it\u2019s a good thing! There were a few interesting links in the Excel tweets this week, and some creative similes. One person has been using a workbook for the past 10 years. I\u2019m sure you have a few Excel files that are older than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/26\/excel-twitters-20090625\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20090625&#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-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","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=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}