{"id":199,"date":"2009-12-07T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/07\/excel-twitters-20091207\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:38:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:38:54","slug":"excel-twitters-20091207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/07\/excel-twitters-20091207\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20091207"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People love pivot tables, with the exception of a few, including the person who posted the first tweet shown below. The rest of us are glowing, while living the easy life.<\/p>\n<h3>A Good Pivot Table<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Excel and pivot tables were created by someone with a deep-rooted hatred for people.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s been three days, and I&#8217;m still glowing because people called my pivot table beautiful and professional. #dorktastic<\/li>\n<li>The only thing missing from my day is a good pivot table. Fingers crossed.<\/li>\n<li>Showing people pivot tables on excel is so fun. Seriously. The joy they get when they realize how easy life can be now is gratifying.<\/li>\n<li>is becoming a pivot table expert in preparations for Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Compulsive Savers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>No freaking way to undo beyond a save in Excel??? Hating Microsoft software with a passion. Begging for Numbers.<\/li>\n<li>Remind me again.Why does Excel say sure you want to close without saving. Oh yeah, it&#8217;s so I can say no and loose all the work ive done \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Ugh. Excel just crashed 30 min worth of work&#8230;good thing I&#8217;m a compulsive saver or it could have been more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Question of the Day<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ever get the feeling that life&#8217;s just one big excel spreadsheet after another?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If you want to save your Excel file with VBA, try the code in Jon Peltier\u2019s article today: <a href=\"http:\/\/peltiertech.com\/WordPress\/robust-vba-save-as-technique\/\">Robust VBA Save-As Technique<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or, follow Jon&#8217;s advice in the comments below:\u00a0 &#8220;If you want to autosave your files to prevent losing too much data in case of a crash, don&#8217;t use the built-in autosave feature. Instead use Jan Karel Pieterse&#8217;s AutoSafe utility. It is much friendlier, and it doesn&#8217;t overwrite the current file, it instead saves a copy. AutoSafe it about the 4th item on this page: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkp-ads.com\/download.asp\">http:\/\/www.jkp-ads.com\/download.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People love pivot tables, with the exception of a few, including the person who posted the first tweet shown below. The rest of us are glowing, while living the easy life. A Good Pivot Table Excel and pivot tables were created by someone with a deep-rooted hatred for people. It&#8217;s been three days, and I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/12\/07\/excel-twitters-20091207\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20091207&#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-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}