{"id":3129,"date":"2017-04-28T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T19:51:17","slug":"excel-twitter-20170428","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/04\/28\/excel-twitter-20170428\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20170428"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, people are singing and dancing and dreaming about Excel. Just be sure to remember where to put your first and last names on the worksheet, or you might have to join the military.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bill Jelen (Mr. Excel) for recommending one of this week&#8217;s tweets. You can find more tweets, and great tips in his book: <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/1615470409?tag=contextures-20\">Mr. Excel XL \u2013 The 40 Greatest Excel Tips of All Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/twitter20170428b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"I try to break Microsoft Excel at least once a day http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/twitter20170428b_thumb.png\" alt=\"I try to break Microsoft Excel at least once a day http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" width=\"396\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>This Week\u2019s Tweets \u2013 Plain Text<\/h3>\n<p>Here are the tweets in plain text. The embedded tweets are below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting to wonder if my boss intentionally messes up Excel files just to see if I can fix them.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started dreaming of new excel formulas and they actually work, I can&#8217;t decide if this is a new high or low<\/li>\n<li>Had a huge work project, spent 30 hours working in Excel. Was forced to take time off. Wrote Song, https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jrtop\/excel-at-love \u2026<\/li>\n<li>Statistics has me ready to join the military. I know excel can do all the work that they make us do by hand.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing kills my motivation to work at the end of the day like accidentally escaping out of a long excel formula right at the end&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Been having stupid frustrating dreams again. Worse: they&#8217;re not about Excel spreadsheets or catchy music this time.<\/li>\n<li>I love to get into the office early so I can listen to podcasts and privately struggle with Excel<\/li>\n<li>I managed to be nice in work for 22 mins &#8211; then someone told me they&#8217;d struggle to copy &amp; paste from one excel to another and I was done<\/li>\n<li>In my line of work I try to break Microsoft Excel at least once a day or I feel like I wasn&#8217;t working hard enough.<\/li>\n<li>The moment you realize your entire work last month was about setting up excel dashboards just to be asked to make even more<\/li>\n<li>When you think about a #function for 15 minutes &amp; then remember that what you are looking for is a pivot table @DanLammerhirt #datageek<\/li>\n<li>Just did some Excel work that I was so pleased with, it warranted a little dance in the corridor.<\/li>\n<li>Never underestimate the power of someone asking you to work Excel magic on a spreadsheet to lift your mood.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think I emphasized quite enough in this tweet the extent to which I hate VLOOKUP and hate how it&#8217;s documented. It is. Really bad.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re too stupid to put your first and last names in the correct spots on an Excel sheet, you probably shouldn&#8217;t be graduating&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>This Week\u2019s Tweets \u2013 Embedded<\/h3>\n<p>Here are the embedded tweets. The tweets in plain text are above.<\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Starting to wonder if my boss intentionally messes up Excel files just to see if I can fix them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Evan S. (@fsu120) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fsu120\/status\/855177049262223360\">April 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Had a huge work project, spent 30 hours working in Excel. Was forced to take time off. Wrote Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UNaFlzpbNQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/UNaFlzpbNQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 J.R. Top (@thejrtop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejrtop\/status\/857342723090731009\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Statistics has me ready to join the military. I know excel can do all the work that they make us do by hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ahniya (@ahniyaaaa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahniyaaaa\/status\/856976574343675904\">April 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nothing kills my motivation to work at the end of the day like accidentally escaping out of a long excel formula right at the end&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zubat (@PuellaMagiZubat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuellaMagiZubat\/status\/857337743235534849\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Been having stupid frustrating dreams again. Worse: they&#8217;re not about Excel spreadsheets or catchy music this time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wildweasel (@CorwinB87) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CorwinB87\/status\/857386338458284032\">April 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I love to get into the office early so I can listen to podcasts and privately struggle with Excel<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carly (@drippingtar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drippingtar\/status\/856873121466515456\">April 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I managed to be nice in work for 22 mins &#8211; then someone told me they&#8217;d struggle to copy &amp; paste from one excel to another and I was done <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BUVZPZ01WP\">pic.twitter.com\/BUVZPZ01WP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy (@smurfintime) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smurfintime\/status\/856771259413262337\">April 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In my line of work I try to break Microsoft Excel at least once a day or I feel like I wasn&#8217;t working hard enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Sommer (@SommerTime15) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SommerTime15\/status\/857266735484985344\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The moment you realize your entire work last month was about setting up excel dashboards just to be asked to make even more<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicolas Verpile (@NVerpile) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NVerpile\/status\/857068184666611712\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When you think about a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/function?src=hash\">#function<\/a> for 15 minutes &amp; then remember that what you are looking for is a pivot table <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanLammerhirt\">@DanLammerhirt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/datageek?src=hash\">#datageek<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6BJB8r51iI\">pic.twitter.com\/6BJB8r51iI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mor Rubinstein (@Morchickit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morchickit\/status\/855402589843836929\">April 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just did some Excel work that I was so pleased with, it warranted a little dance in the corridor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Monteath (@MonteathSam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonteathSam\/status\/857179723578953728\">April 26, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Never underestimate the power of someone asking you to work Excel magic on a spreadsheet to lift your mood.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elizabeth (@knitmeg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/knitmeg\/status\/856910106893721600\">April 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I don&#8217;t think I emphasized quite enough in this tweet the extent to which I hate VLOOKUP and hate how it&#8217;s documented. It is. Really bad.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jackie Cohen (@jczetta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jczetta\/status\/856555952753037313\">April 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If you&#8217;re too stupid to put your first and last names in the correct spots on an Excel sheet, you probably shouldn&#8217;t be graduating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark (@GospelofMarky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GospelofMarky\/status\/855916739879620608\">April 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>__________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/twitter20170428a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"I try to break Microsoft Excel at least once a day http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/twitter20170428a_thumb.png\" alt=\"I try to break Microsoft Excel at least once a day http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" width=\"396\" height=\"396\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Get Weekly Excel News By Email<\/h3>\n<p>To get Excel news and tips by email, add your name for the Contextures Excel newsletter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"AW-Form-1834975337\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\tvar js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\tif (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\tjs = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\tjs.src = \"\/\/forms.aweber.com\/form\/37\/1834975337.js\";\n\tfjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, \"script\", \"aweber-wjs-z22n761cb\"));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<h3>This Week\u2019s Tweets By<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fsu120\/status\/855177049262223360\">Evan S.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejrtop\/status\/857342723090731009\">J.R. 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Just be sure to remember where to put your first and last names on the worksheet, or you might have to join the military. Thanks to Bill Jelen (Mr. Excel) for recommending one of this week&#8217;s tweets. 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