{"id":1472,"date":"2012-03-02T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/02\/excel-twitter-20120302\/"},"modified":"2012-03-02T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T05:02:00","slug":"excel-twitter-20120302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/02\/excel-twitter-20120302\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20120302"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/image.png\" width=\"102\" height=\"109\" \/>While working in Excel, beware of the feral pivot tables. And if you&#8217;re on your mobile phone, calling for Excel help, don&#8217;t believe the forum geeks who tell you that VLOOKUPs are simple!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Am I some sort of savant that I understand how to create a spreadsheet? Why is excel intimidating to most people? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/xeniterhood\"><s>@<\/s>xeniterhood<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>A full day of Excel spreadsheet work. No wonder they pay investment bankers so much; otherwise nobody would do this. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/dkreindler\"><s>@<\/s>dkreindler<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve impressed myself with my Excel spreadsheet skills this evening! Formulas, frozen cells, conditional formatting &#8211; it&#8217;s all there! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/earliem\"><s>@<\/s>earliem <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Today&#8217;s fight with Excel isn&#8217;t even about formulas; its about getting the verdammt spreadsheet to print. <s>#<\/s>mulligan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/HayesBrown\"><s>@<\/s>HayesBrown<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Every morning. Men talking loudly on mobiles about spreadsheets. *bumble bumble* spreadsheet *bumble bumble* Excel has a lot to answer for. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/gromitski\"><s>@<\/s>gromitski<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>I love Excel, really I do. But I hate the initial stages of designing a spreadsheet. I never get it *just right* the 1st try #perfectionist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ChristaMcCoy\"><s>@<\/s>ChristaMcCoy<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>A well-designed, formula-enabled Excel spreadsheet is almost as satisfying as Q-Tips in ears. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/choosler\"><s>@<\/s>choosler <\/a><\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think much of this Battleships game, &#8216;Excel Spreadsheet&#8217;. The graphics are sparse, to say the least. And there are too many squares. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/NewConnArtist\"><s>@<\/s>NewConnArtist <\/a><\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t even know what a pivot table is but I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s awful. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/gingerandhoney\"><s>@<\/s>gingerandhoney<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Fairly certain that &quot;Paste as Value&quot;-ing a pivot table three times is not the right way to do it, but I got the right results. Whew. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/MarinaMartin\"><s>@<\/s>MarinaMartin<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>+50 nerd points: I just added my first macro to an Excel file. -100 nerd points: I got the code from a forum. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/HikerYote\"><s>@<\/s>HikerYote<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>Attention excel &#8211; I NEVER want to &#8216;view code&#8217;. Just assume I want to move\/copy if I hit that. Thanks. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/newmusicmichael\"><s>@<\/s>newmusicmichael<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>how am i supposed to know what type of bar graph to use in excel there is a million different options, teacher took off points last time smh <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/jtjaspr\"><s>@<\/s>jtjaspr<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>you know you have no idea how to use excel when your graph for bio turns out like this. <s>#<\/s>ellenprobs <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/cIg7Czzz\">http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/cIg7Czzz<\/a>&#160;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ellenrunner\"><s>@<\/s>ellenrunner<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>I have just spent about 45 mins comparing two excel spreadsheets too. Finally solved the problem. Am numerberlexic now though! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/TheGreenRoomP\"><s>@<\/s>TheGreenRoomP<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>I also hate the stupid Excel forum geeks who say &quot;simple Vlookup process&quot; &amp; then proceed to talk absolute jibberish that is in no way simple <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Stace_Bee\"><s>@<\/s>Stace_Bee <\/a><\/li>\n<li>Trying to track down a process that is pounding my SSAS server. I think it is a feral excel pivot table. <s>#<\/s>SQLCSI <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ShawnJohnsonDBA\"><s>@<\/s>ShawnJohnsonDBA <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Related Links:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Functions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/30excelfunctionsin30days30xl30d.html\">Excel Functions<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Pivot Tables\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/CreatePivotTable.html\">Excel Pivot Tables<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel VBA\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/xlvba01.html\">Excel VBA<\/a>&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working in Excel, beware of the feral pivot tables. And if you&#8217;re on your mobile phone, calling for Excel help, don&#8217;t believe the forum geeks who tell you that VLOOKUPs are simple! Am I some sort of savant that I understand how to create a spreadsheet? Why is excel intimidating to most people? @xeniterhood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/02\/excel-twitter-20120302\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitter 20120302&#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-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","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=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}