{"id":246,"date":"2010-01-21T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/21\/excel-twitters-20100121\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:38:46","slug":"excel-twitters-20100121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/21\/excel-twitters-20100121\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20100121"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you make it through school, you can graduate to an exciting career, working with Excel. And a little baling wire and duct tape might help too.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re on your way to becoming a pivot table genius, there are <a title=\"Pivot Table Tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/CreatePivotTable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pivot Table Tutorials<\/a> on the Contextures website.<\/p>\n<h3>Big Dose of Wake-up <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I just added up all of my student and law school loans in an Excel spreadsheet. That&#8217;s a big dose of wake-up that coffee won&#8217;t give you. <\/li>\n<li>We just spent 20 mins of my 60 min class with the tech unsaavy prof trying to get students to download an excel spreadsheet. Idiots. <\/li>\n<li>I think my 6.0 gps is about to take nose dive &#8211; am about to fail a statistics exam! No amount of positive thinking will get excel to work <\/li>\n<li>thinks USM should have included more classes in parsing and abusing Excel files and XML files. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pivotless Pivot <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out this Pivot-table-less PowerPivot report. @powerpivotpro says even Excel pros will be stumped! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/6IjmJi\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/6IjmJi<\/a><\/li>\n<li>As good as the reporting tools in some web apps have become, they are still no match for a good old pivot table. <\/li>\n<li>Pretty sure&#8230; I&#8217;m an excel genius! My pivot table is a work of art! FML that this is what I&#8217;m excited about in life. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Macro Policy <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A little bailing wire and my duct taped VBA code that gets a MS Project file from a URL exports to excel &amp; imports into access will be done! <\/li>\n<li>I hate that Excel 2007 policy about macros. I&#8217;m the developer, I know what I&#8217;m doing. Disabling all macros is just stupid. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>It&#8217;s a Science <\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>No, Excel, I in fact do NOT want that ISBN in scientific notation. Thanks though. #workingatthelibrary #fb <\/li>\n<li>These people are allowing me to do stuff with scientific numbers and Excel spreadsheets&#8230; why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you make it through school, you can graduate to an exciting career, working with Excel. And a little baling wire and duct tape might help too. And if you\u2019re on your way to becoming a pivot table genius, there are Pivot Table Tutorials on the Contextures website. Big Dose of Wake-up I just added &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/21\/excel-twitters-20100121\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20100121&#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-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}