{"id":42,"date":"2008-08-23T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T00:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:27:09","slug":"excel-twitters-20080823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/23\/excel-twitters-20080823\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20080823"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week there were several twitters about Excel and music, but no consensus on the type of music that works best. There&#8217;s also a growing number of twitters comparing Excel to Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iwork\/numbers\/\">Numbers<\/a>. There are the usual battles with Excel, and even a few people talking about pivot tables. And apologies to all the cat lovers, but the last comment in today&#8217;s list is my favourite.<\/p>\n<h2>Excel is Music to My Ears<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Sitting down in front of Excel for an epic planning session, and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believing&#8221; from Journey comes up on random play. Good or bad?<\/li>\n<li>Listening to the Across the Universe soundtrack and entering this never-ending mailing list into excel. Such a pain.<\/li>\n<li>Listening to Josh Ritter&#8217;s &#8220;The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter&#8221; while I enter invoices into my budget tracking excel spreadsheets.<\/li>\n<li>absolutely loving Pandora.com today. really helps me on days like this where i am using Excel constantly. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>Listening to Metallica, grinning like an idiot, trying to keep my head and feet still &#8211; trying to block out mind numbing excel work!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Excel vs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iwork\/numbers\/\">Numbers<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Excel is ugly and smart. Numbers is pretty and stupid.<\/li>\n<li>When I open an excel doc in Mac Numbers I feel like I&#8217;m personally giving Bill Gates the finger&#8230;and I like it.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe so, but when I couldn&#8217;t add a trendline in Numbers, I switched to Excel. One piece of crap or another.<\/li>\n<li>Excel = bane of my existence. I hate virtually everything about it. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no suitably powerful alternative. Numbers = joke.<\/li>\n<li>Figured out how to individual schedules for teachers using iWork Numbers. Not flawless enough for picky me, but more handsome than Excel.<\/li>\n<li>Just spent an hour debugging a cell forumlae in Numbers. Remembering fondly the VB back-end to Excel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Zen of Pivot Tables<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ever say to yourself, &#8220;nothing in my youth prepared me to create pivot tables in excel&#8221; or is it just me?<\/li>\n<li>One of my staff is getting very excited about pivot tables in Excel. She is quite odd<\/li>\n<li>the zen of msft excel &#8211; find peace in your pivot table<\/li>\n<li>Pivot tables? No accounting for taste \ud83d\ude1b<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s 2.30am, I got a problems with Excel pivot tables, half a pack of crisps, it&#8217;s dark, and I&#8217;m wearing sunglasses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Let the Battle Begin<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a minor Excel\/Windows Vista tantrum going on in the living room. I&#8217;m readying the tranquilizer darts.<\/li>\n<li>pushing enter on an excel doc at work all day maybe merits its own drinking game<\/li>\n<li>welcome to the dark side, where we use Microsoft Excel and see little white boxes in our sleep, like a less fun Tetris<\/li>\n<li>no matter whose Office suite you use 20 years from now, you&#8217;ll be using the same Excel formulas. They&#8217;re not going away; learn them<\/li>\n<li>Excel Charts makes me want to punch kittens. It is SO Monday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week there were several twitters about Excel and music, but no consensus on the type of music that works best. There&#8217;s also a growing number of twitters comparing Excel to Apple&#8217;s Numbers. There are the usual battles with Excel, and even a few people talking about pivot tables. And apologies to all the cat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/23\/excel-twitters-20080823\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20080823&#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-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}