{"id":408,"date":"2010-07-03T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/03\/excel-twitter-20100703\/"},"modified":"2022-12-04T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T18:02:56","slug":"excel-twitter-20100703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/07\/03\/excel-twitter-20100703\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20100703"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you&#8217;re enjoying the holiday weekend &#8212; the perfect time to play Excel Battleship or Spreadsheet Monopoly!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are today&#8217;s Excel tweets, and if you&#8217;d like to try some Excel games, I&#8217;ve added links at the end of this post.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slow day at work; the two girls next to me are playing Excel Battleship against each other \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Can I just say that pivot tables in Excel are wicked awesome!<\/li>\n<li>There is nothing quite like starring at a spreadsheet for 3 days straight. It really changes your perspective on life&#8230;or lack there of.<\/li>\n<li>I just felt physically dizzy from staring at a particularly offensively-formatted spreadsheet.<\/li>\n<li>Just spent an hour trying to get a bunch of data organised in Excel. VLOOKUP started failing &amp; I realised I could do it all in a pivot table<\/li>\n<li>3rd cup of coffee, 2nd load of laundry, 4th excel spreadsheet&#8230; productive so far on my day off.<\/li>\n<li>My spreadsheet has given me a circular reference on a blank cell. I believe my Excel is possessed.<\/li>\n<li>Spent an hour doing a jazzy spreadsheet (so the wife can say she did it and impress her work). Happy is a man whose work is also his hobby<\/li>\n<li>supermariobroscrossover- &#8220;When your boss comes by, pause the game and swap back to the Excel spreadsheet. Repeat until 5pm&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s an Excel based &#8220;Spreadsheet Monopoly&#8221;!! And employers think they&#8217;re boosting productivity by blocking facebook<\/li>\n<li>a man who makes excel spreadsheets work for him in his quest to discover the perfect steak frites in Northern hotels.<\/li>\n<li>I have no idea how they work. Trying to rejig one for my boss who is more incompetent at excel than me. Urgh.<\/li>\n<li>My Boss recently completed &#8216;Excel for Dummies&#8221;. Now, the rest of us are reading &#8220;The Dummy Unleashed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Does anyone in DC NOT have a color-coded spreadsheet with every happy hour in the city on it?<\/li>\n<li>from an IT perspective, you&#8217;re dead to me. But can you still help me with that deck and spreadsheet tonight?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<h3>Excel Monopoly<\/h3>\n<p>I found two versions of Excel Monopoly, which was created by Andrew Werner.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This link takes you to <a href=\"https:\/\/okayandrew.tumblr.com\/post\/5039074212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his original article, with a download link<\/a> for the first version of his Monopoly game.<\/li>\n<li>This link takes you to <a href=\"https:\/\/okayandrew.tumblr.com\/post\/8740017278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his later article, with a download link<\/a> for the updated version of his game.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Excel Battleship<\/h3>\n<p>Andrew Engwirda has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewsexceltips.net\/my_tips.htm\">several Excel games on his site<\/a>, including Battleship and a Word Search puzzle.<\/p>\n<h3>More Excel Games<\/h3>\n<p>There are links to more Excel games in the following posts on my Contextures Blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contexturesblog.com\/archives\/2019\/09\/12\/fun-and-games-with-excel-20190912\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fun and Games with Excel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contexturesblog.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/17\/take-a-break-with-excel-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a Break with Excel Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Excel Treasure Hunt\" href=\"https:\/\/contexturesblog.com\/archives\/2010\/04\/02\/excel-treasure-hunt-game\/\">Excel Treasure Hunt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Excel Concentration Game\" href=\"https:\/\/contexturesblog.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/20\/excel-concentration-game\/\">Excel Concentration Game<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>More Links:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Excel VLOOKUP Function\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/xlFunctions02.html\">Excel VLOOKUP Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Pivot Tables\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/tiptech.html#PivotTables\">Excel Pivot Tables<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Conditional Formatting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/xlCondFormat01.html\">Excel Conditional Formatting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope you&#8217;re enjoying the holiday weekend &#8212; the perfect time to play Excel Battleship or Spreadsheet Monopoly!<\/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-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}