{"id":58,"date":"2008-10-04T20:43:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T00:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:44:27","slug":"excel-twitters-20081004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/04\/excel-twitters-20081004\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20081004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was less complaining about Excel than usual this week in Twitter world. Maybe it&#8217;s the economy. People are chatting about Excel in the classroom, on the job, at home and even on the subway. And please be careful if you&#8217;re ever filling in a paper survey. Thanks!<\/p>\n<h3>Fun With Charts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Working on lesson plans. Who knew Excel does tally marks? Put four | characters in a cell then press Control-5; it adds a strikethrough!<\/li>\n<li>Have you ever played with the repeat function in Excel to make a pseudo-bar graph? My kids like it.<\/li>\n<li>Angela uses excel where the kids research the size of the planets which are put on graph automatically so kids can SEE relative sizes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>On the Job<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Our hourly people hijacked the Excel spreadsheet and hacked on god only knows what.<\/li>\n<li>Funny to see the guys working for the other company on our floor flipping tabs from facebook to email\/excel as I&#8217;m walking behind them \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous with Excel&#8230;in a bad way. creating a budget for a new business. they didn&#8217;t teach excel in philosophy class.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, Twitter friends! SAVE ME! How do I retrieve a previously saved file when I have already saved over it? Microsoft Excel. Any ideas?<\/li>\n<li>Doubting Excel&#8217;s &#8220;RAND()&#8221; function. Picked 48 twice in 7 samples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Just Relax<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Old man on the subway is reading Excel 2000 Power Programming with VBA. Poor guy.<\/li>\n<li>I love working in Excel &#8211; it lets me make-up words without spell checking. A feeling of relaxtivity.<\/li>\n<li>There is something about working in Excel that I find very satisfying. &#8220;Little boxes all the same.There&#8217;s a green one and a pink one&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the table next to me is discussing pivot tables and great database applications over drinks&#8230; FUN!<\/li>\n<li>As tedious as it can be sometimes, I really like tinkering with Excel and Word projects. I could adjust\/shade\/size crap in here all day.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes I wish I could have an open Excel window on me at all times, in the background, in case I need to plot\/calculate something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Excel At Home<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>taught chris how to use excel for his homework. gosh i wish most of my family wasn&#8217;t computer illiterate&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>My mom got a part time job entering paper surveys into Excel, and if you ever take one, don&#8217;t mark 2, or halfway in-between. Please.<\/li>\n<li>Quote of the day: &#8220;If I ever have a kid, I&#8217;m going to name him some weird Excel forumla so he messes up all his teacher&#8217;s spreadsheets.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was less complaining about Excel than usual this week in Twitter world. Maybe it&#8217;s the economy. People are chatting about Excel in the classroom, on the job, at home and even on the subway. And please be careful if you&#8217;re ever filling in a paper survey. Thanks! Fun With Charts Working on lesson plans. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/04\/excel-twitters-20081004\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20081004&#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-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}