{"id":301,"date":"2010-03-11T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/11\/excel-twitters-20100311\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T05:02:00","slug":"excel-twitters-20100311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/03\/11\/excel-twitters-20100311\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20100311"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You knew it would happen \u2013 Excel 2007 has a million rows, and now people want 2 million. Meanwhile, the 6th graders are playing Excel battleship, and learning about those bad variable names. If you\u2019d like to play too, my friend Andrew Engwirda has a free version of <a title=\"Excel Battleship\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.livedoor.jp\/andrewe\/archives\/51007314.html\" target=\"_blank\">Excel Battleship<\/a> that you can download.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>i made an excel spreadsheet for all the countries i have coins from. i&#8217;m very organized and i like it. <\/li>\n<li>lets all be sophisticated adults and spend the evening at starbucks with our laptops out and type numbers into microsoft excel <\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t look at inappropriate websites at work. That&#8217;s when I&#8217;m thankful that my biggest turn-on is Excel spreadsheets in Arial 10pt. font. <\/li>\n<li>#learnsomethingeveryday You can do GANTT charts with Excel. Impressed. No idea HOW but I hear it can be done. <\/li>\n<li>poor use of excel really irritates me. what&#8217;s up with skipping rows? do you even know why you&#8217;re using a spreadsheet? ergh! <\/li>\n<li>Kids ask me all the time. How can I make it in this biz? My answer? Learn how to use Excel&#8230; Seriously. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got an Excel spreadsheet THIS BIG, and it&#8217;s got &quot;pain in my ass&quot; written all over it. <\/li>\n<li>Staring at a pile of paperwork, while an Excel spreadsheet tries to sneak up on me. Good morning! <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/17q7az\">http:\/\/twitpic.com\/17q7az<\/a> &#8211; Apparently my pivot table\/chart shenanigans was just too much for poor old Excel <\/li>\n<li>Spreadsheet activities with 6th grade today &#8211; Excel Battleship to review cell naming, cell formatting &amp; using multiple sheets. <\/li>\n<li>So I&#8217;ll be spending the rest of the day and likely part of tomorrow running queries and exporting results to Excel. Hooray for audiobooks! <\/li>\n<li>Access, why can&#8217;t you be more like your brother Excel?! <\/li>\n<li>excel graph render yet? Have frequently gotten coffee myself so my pivot had time alone to think&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>My needs have apparently surpassed what a spreadsheet is capable of! Never! I will make excel do even this! *gets wizard hat* <\/li>\n<li>protip: dont put your save button next to your undo button in excel <\/li>\n<li>Dear Microsoft: Now I need TWO millions lines per worksheet. When is Excel 2011 hitting the market? #pleaseandthankyou <\/li>\n<li>Thanks to magical Excel training, I can now make the FANCIEST of charts and\/or graphs. Delicious. <\/li>\n<li>turn off auto-save. A lot of times when i work in big spreadsheets excel gets hosed by the auto-save constantly running <\/li>\n<li>Important rule for work: never be more than 1 alt-tab from an excel spreadsheet <\/li>\n<li>An excel sheet is nothing but a list of equations, with bad variable names. Never thought of it that way. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Chart Links\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/charts.html\">Excel Chart Links<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Pivot Table Tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/tiptech.html#PivotTables\">Pivot Table Tutorials<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Tips and Tutorials\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/tiptech.html\">Excel Tips and Tutorials<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You knew it would happen \u2013 Excel 2007 has a million rows, and now people want 2 million. Meanwhile, the 6th graders are playing Excel battleship, and learning about those bad variable names. 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