{"id":231,"date":"2010-01-06T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/06\/excel-twitters-20100106\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:24:06","slug":"excel-twitters-20100106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/06\/excel-twitters-20100106\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20100106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always a mixture of love and hate for Excel in the daily tweets. Apparently Excel has a good thesaurus though. I guess the hater forgot to mention that. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, I sometimes work out a formula on paper too, before writing it in Excel. Do you?<\/p>\n<h3>Pen and Paper <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>smile to myself anytime i figure out how some numbers should work out in excel by doing symbolic manipulation on paper. math school. <\/li>\n<li>Excel worksheets can be very misleading! Nothing in theory ever is. So why do people believe that businesses can be conducted on paper? <\/li>\n<li>God old pen and paper can really help when you&#8217;re wrestling with an Excel formula&#8230; good night all. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Loathing and Disdain <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>there is no end to my utter disgust, hatred, loathing, disdain, abhorrence, revulsion, or contempt for the abomination called &quot;MS Excel&quot; <\/li>\n<li>I hate when people want me to help them with their Excel formulas but don&#8217;t want me to explain how to do them. <\/li>\n<li>Balance: The number of traders who love Excel vs the number of developers who hate it because they must integrate it into other systems. <\/li>\n<li>I hate doing big projects at work, i never should have told them i am a master at excel. FML <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Make It Idiot Proof <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-working another Excel workbook. I wish people that didn&#8217;t understand Excel wld leave it alone. Pretty comes later. Make it workable 1st. <\/li>\n<li>These projected earnings don&#8217;t make any sense. Either this company is about to go bankrupt, or I clicked the wrong cell in Excel again. <\/li>\n<li>People. If you don&#8217;t know how to freaking use excel, then STOP USING IT. All you are doing is making more work for me. I need a drink. <\/li>\n<li>Making spreadsheets in excel = easy.Idiot-proofing them so that others can&#8217;t screw it up = hard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________ <\/p>\n<p>P.S. For help with Excel formulas, see Contextures <a title=\"Excel Tips and Tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/tiptech.html\">Excel Tips and Tutorials<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>______________ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always a mixture of love and hate for Excel in the daily tweets. Apparently Excel has a good thesaurus though. I guess the hater forgot to mention that. And yes, I sometimes work out a formula on paper too, before writing it in Excel. Do you? Pen and Paper smile to myself anytime i &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/06\/excel-twitters-20100106\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20100106&#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-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}