{"id":37,"date":"2008-08-10T20:18:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T00:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:19:59","slug":"excel-twitters-20080810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/10\/excel-twitters-20080810\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20080810"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If people would stop Twittering about Excel, and just do their work, maybe they could go home earlier. Unless they&#8217;re using Twitter to ask for help, which a surprising number of people do. It&#8217;s hard to help them in 140 characters though, unless you just post a link to the Microsoft newsgroups.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s another list of the things that people are doing, or trying to do, in Excel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>established file sharing thru Office Live! Now we can share our Excel wedding spreadsheets more easily.<\/li>\n<li>Writing a script to merge data from different bank accounts into one Excel sheet<\/li>\n<li>Yep, some companies run their entire business on Excel. It&#8217;s a lot cheaper than SAP . . . .<\/li>\n<li>yeah Excel can do a bunch&#8230;I got an email with the game Sonic (from Sega) made in excel<\/li>\n<li>trying to figure out how to tape all of this olympic coverage. why can&#8217;t NBC have an excel export of the schedule for the week or two?<br \/>\n<em>Ed. note: I found this <a title=\"Olympic US TV schedule in Excel\" href=\"http:\/\/is.gd\/1lMJ\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic US TV schedule in Excel<\/a> <\/em><\/li>\n<li>Moving our household budget out of the dark ages (Yellow Legal Pad) to Excel&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>anyone using a decent password manager other than a pgp encrypted excel spreadsheet?<\/li>\n<li>doing magical, magical things with mysql and excel pivot tables.<\/li>\n<li>work this week consists of entering in patients in an excel document &amp; reading new moon.<\/li>\n<li>Working on a worship statistics spreadsheet&#8230;and I suck at Excel.<\/li>\n<li>a project is getting out of hand when you start making excel sheets to remember the names of people involved&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>working up a fitness and diet routine in excel, like the nerd i am<\/li>\n<li>just finished half my pile of entering 230 new email subscribers into excel<\/li>\n<li>working on some fancy Excel spreadsheets to help them predict the wind speed at the spaceport site.<\/li>\n<li>creating excel spreadsheet w\/all of my health record data. and having fun doing it, damn it!<\/li>\n<li>You could export the playlist into a spreadsheet and print it from there. I&#8217;ve used Excel to do it before.<\/li>\n<li>realizing that when a non-engineer says &#8220;Matrix&#8221; they mean &#8220;Excel spreadsheet&#8221; or &#8220;Table in a Word document&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And my favourite Excel Twitter of the week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if you hate excel, you should just get a chisel and a huge boulder&#8230; you can keep track of your stuff that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If people would stop Twittering about Excel, and just do their work, maybe they could go home earlier. Unless they&#8217;re using Twitter to ask for help, which a surprising number of people do. It&#8217;s hard to help them in 140 characters though, unless you just post a link to the Microsoft newsgroups. Anyway, here&#8217;s another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/10\/excel-twitters-20080810\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20080810&#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-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}