{"id":34,"date":"2008-08-02T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T00:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:17:33","slug":"excel-twitters-20080802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/02\/excel-twitters-20080802\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20080802"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, there are plenty of Twitters about people&#8217;s love\/hate relationship with Excel. But what are they using Excel to do? Some pretty interesting things, by the sound of it. And sometimes the Twitters reveal a little too much information about their use of Excel.<\/p>\n<p>The list of happy hours seems like a productive use of Excel though. Do you use Excel for anything unusual?<\/p>\n<h2>Excel Uses and Misuses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Detailed schedules on official 2008 Olympic games site are presented in MS Excel files. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.beijing2008.cn\/schedule\/\">http:\/\/en.beijing2008.cn\/schedule\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li> first box getting packed for the move. I&#8217;m using your Excel spreadsheet method for keeping up with boxes<\/li>\n<li> creating a detailed excel file containing my customers and their instructions.<\/li>\n<li> Going to try and do an excel based flight planner this time.<\/li>\n<li> is building excel model for analytics case competition<\/li>\n<li> just got emailed an excel spreadsheet with all happy hours in sf!<\/li>\n<li> For vacation I suggested we make packing lists in an Excel workbook with a summary sheet split into categories. Does that make me a nerd?<\/li>\n<li> there are 18 ways to get TV for three people. and that&#8217;s just from Dish. I need Excel for this decision. what exciting times we live in.<\/li>\n<li>What do you use to keep track of candidates you have sourced? We have an excel spreadsheet which is not working well! HELP!<\/li>\n<li>Wondering why I&#8217;m staring at an Excel spreadsheet filled with hydraulic gradients and slope failure analysis at 10:45pm\u2026<\/li>\n<li> Working on our latest project &#8211; the massive 800CD track-by-track Excel database.<\/li>\n<li>writing an excel add-in to visualise the data our websites use.<\/li>\n<li> someone at my job used excel to create a web page. Try looking at that in notepad!<\/li>\n<li> wait til I show you my weekly meal plans and Excel workbook grocery lists (laid out in the order of the store!) sexy!<\/li>\n<li>if you want a job do not send me your resume as an excel file, or docbook. XLS is not an acceptable format for documents, EVER<\/li>\n<li>I love it when I get to do *my* work while being paid to do *another* job. = typing up Casting Director addresses in Excel spreadsheet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thanks for Sharing<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Hi! Do you want to help me learn Microsoft Excel? It&#8217;s a key part of my job, I don&#8217;t know it and I was hired anyway! Awesome!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Doing overtime with Microsoft Excel because I said I knew how to use excel when really I don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>Excel stole my mathematical ability. It didn&#8217;t gain much.<\/li>\n<li>If you have a real complicated looking excel sheet on your desktop, it really looks like you&#8217;re working hard.<\/li>\n<li>Listening to Dizzy Gillespie and working in Excel, I feel the two cancel each other out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, there are plenty of Twitters about people&#8217;s love\/hate relationship with Excel. But what are they using Excel to do? Some pretty interesting things, by the sound of it. And sometimes the Twitters reveal a little too much information about their use of Excel. The list of happy hours seems like a productive use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/02\/excel-twitters-20080802\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20080802&#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-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}