{"id":3282,"date":"2017-11-10T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:04:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:04:30","slug":"excel-twitter-20171110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2017\/11\/10\/excel-twitter-20171110\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20171110"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does Excel really know when you&#8217;re rushing? If so, could we distract it with donuts and pizza rolls? In the meantime, just play random songs, and try to figure out how you got into college.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter20171110b.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Donut explosion? Yes please! #Excel http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter20171110b_thumb.png\" alt=\"Donut explosion? Yes please! #Excel http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" width=\"396\" height=\"201\" 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>One of the formatting options for a donut chart in Excel is &#8216;donut explosion.&#8217; Yes please.<\/li>\n<li>My boss names all my important files after random songs. Just received an excel file with all of my accounts called \u201cbeez in the trap\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s not even 8:30, I&#8217;ve already voted and made a dope pivot table. So yeah, it&#8217;s shaping up to be a good day.<\/li>\n<li>So Excel is bad because you can write bad code in it? Excel is a great programming model, you can screw up in any language!!<\/li>\n<li>You can pivot the hell out of Excel but the minute your boss wants to sit and work together suddenly you can&#8217;t even operate a mouse<\/li>\n<li>I have a full day of excel training at work today so hopefully by the end of the day I can do more than just the sum function<\/li>\n<li>I spent 8 hours trying to get a pivot table to add correctly. 8 hours.Because Excel can&#8217;t do math.Solution was simple: PEBKAC.<\/li>\n<li>Does someone know how to write code in Excel? I can make you some pizza rolls and\/or Ramen in return<\/li>\n<li>The joy that comes w\/ fixing a most perplexing problem in Excel is followed by the crushing weight of realizing how basic the fix is<\/li>\n<li>Very little makes me feel more boss than quickly hacking excel workarounds to save a bunch of time.<\/li>\n<li>The last time I wrote #BASIC code was the previous century on my #Amiga 600 machine.Today I wrote some #VBA to automate something in #Excel..#Corporatelife<\/li>\n<li>Excel knows when you\u2019re rushing to finishing up your work so it just stop working for NO REASON<\/li>\n<li>Every job interview I ever had I lied that I can use Excel but never needed it anyway. Today I had to pretend that my lie was true. Carnage.<\/li>\n<li>it took me an hour to figure out how to make a chart on excel&#8230; how in the world did I get into college?<\/li>\n<li>Every information worker&#8217;s life has very clear &#8220;pre-pivot-table&#8221; and &#8220;post-pivot-table&#8221; phases.<\/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\">One of the formatting options for a donut chart in Excel is &#8216;donut explosion.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Yes please.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 mike (@mike_follows) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mike_follows\/status\/928310308560691208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">My boss names all my important files after random songs. Just received an excel file with all of my accounts called \u201cbeez in the trap\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Taylor (@teapott1615) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teapott1615\/status\/926446197673472000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">It&#8217;s not even 8:30, I&#8217;ve already voted and made a dope pivot table. So yeah, it&#8217;s shaping up to be a good day.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Backer (@stevewithaph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevewithaph\/status\/927903271955714049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">So Excel is bad because you can write bad code in it? Excel is a great programming model, you can screw up in any language!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Burrows (@dburrows) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dburrows\/status\/926494108193091584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">You can pivot the hell out of Excel but the minute your boss wants to sit and work together suddenly you can&#8217;t even operate a mouse<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yoli (@YoliYoli_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoliYoli_\/status\/927897737890353152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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 have a full day of excel training at work today so hopefully by the end of the day I can do more than just the sum function<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris (@crizjenner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crizjenner\/status\/927463306616627200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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 spent 8 hours trying to get a pivot table to add correctly. 8 hours.<br \/>\nBecause Excel can&#8217;t do math.<\/p>\n<p>Solution was simple: PEBKAC.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cmd.Pvt.Major (@DrunkenKarnie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrunkenKarnie\/status\/928038037489143809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">Does someone know how to write code in Excel? I can make you some pizza rolls and\/or Ramen in return<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Austin Brown (@AustinMcBrown_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustinMcBrown_\/status\/927391728918847488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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 joy that comes w\/ fixing a most perplexing problem in Excel is followed by the crushing weight of realizing how basic the fix is<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chris B Critter (@RustproofBottom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RustproofBottom\/status\/928328957136654341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">Very little makes me feel more boss than quickly hacking excel workarounds to save a bunch of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brendan Flattery (@BFlattery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BFlattery\/status\/927947754806001664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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 last time I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BASIC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BASIC<\/a> code was the previous century on my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Amiga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Amiga<\/a> 600 machine.<br \/>\nToday I wrote some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VBA<\/a> to automate something in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Excel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Excel<\/a>..<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Corporatelife?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Corporatelife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alireza Ghasemi (@a_ghasemi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a_ghasemi\/status\/928296290362052610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">Excel knows when you\u2019re rushing to finishing up your work so it just stop working for NO REASON<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mr. Allen\u2122 (@Mr_Allen06) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Allen06\/status\/928391174641127426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">Every job interview I ever had I lied that I can use Excel but never needed it anyway. Today I had to pretend that my lie was true. Carnage.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MissBee (@MissBee73) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MissBee73\/status\/927618494090436608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">it took me an hour to figure out how to make a chart on excel&#8230; how in the world did I get into college?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joanna Liu (@joannaliu5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joannaliu5\/status\/926356633462104064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\">Every information worker&#8217;s life has very clear &#8220;pre-pivot-table&#8221; and &#8220;post-pivot-table&#8221; phases.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gautam Ramdurai (@GautamRamdurai) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GautamRamdurai\/status\/927724791083163648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/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\/11\/twitter20171110a.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Donut explosion? Yes please! #Excel http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/twitter20171110a_thumb.png\" alt=\"Donut explosion? Yes please! #Excel http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/\" width=\"396\" height=\"332\" 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\/mike_follows\/status\/928310308560691208\">mike<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teapott1615\/status\/926446197673472000\">Taylor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevewithaph\/status\/927903271955714049\">Steve Backer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_\/status\/926490714090942469\">David Burrows<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YoliYoli_\/status\/927897737890353152\">Yoli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crizjenner\/status\/927463306616627200\">Chris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrunkenKarnie\/status\/928038037489143809\">Cmd.Pvt.Major<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustinMcBrown_\/status\/927391728918847488\">Austin Brown<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RustproofBottom\/status\/928328957136654341\">Chris B Critter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BFlattery\/status\/927947754806001664\">Brendan Flattery<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a_ghasemi\/status\/928296290362052610\">Alireza Ghasemi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mr_Allen06\/status\/928391174641127426\">Mr. Allen\u2122<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/missbee73\/status\/927618494090436608\">MissBee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joannaliu5\/status\/926356633462104064\">Joanna Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GautamRamdurai\/status\/927724791083163648\">Gautam Ramdurai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 132px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Excel really know when you&#8217;re rushing? 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