{"id":62,"date":"2008-10-18T20:48:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T00:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-11-29T01:34:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T06:34:50","slug":"excel-twitters-20081018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/18\/excel-twitters-20081018\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20081018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reformatting error in the infamous Barclays Excel worksheet was the topic of several Twitters this week. There were also suggestions for improving Excel, grumbles, bragging, unusual uses and a couple of interesting quotes.<\/p>\n<h3>Dear Excel<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>My biggest Excel pet peeve is when the default colors are used in charts.<\/li>\n<li>Never have understood why Excel defaults to such lilliputian-sized text.<\/li>\n<li>Dear Excel &#8211; Remember that time I told you to stop assuming everything I type is a hyperlink? I meant it.<\/li>\n<li>Why does Excel have &#8220;Transpose&#8221; but not &#8220;Flip&#8221; in the paste menu?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>I&#8217;m a Genius<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I am an Excel formula genius! Not that its a good thing, just say&#8217;n.<\/li>\n<li>Buckling down and figuring out pivot tables. Never wanted to be an Excel monkey, but I can see how theseare going to be useful.<\/li>\n<li>On the bus discussing Excel perf with excel pgm. Good stuff in the works.<\/li>\n<li>getting intimate with microsoft excel. this relationship is moving a little too fast for my taste.<\/li>\n<li>Just helped the accounting department save about 4-6 hours of work by showing them VLookup in Excel. What a powerful tool.<\/li>\n<li>is there anything better than excel? if pivot tables were a woman I would marry her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grrrr!<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>aaaaa I&#8217;ve found the end of excel .. column IV &#8230; the earth is flat<\/li>\n<li>Excel error leaves Barclays with more Lehman assets than it bargained for<\/li>\n<li>my cunning plan to use Excel to document these business rules seems foiled by the fact it is turning my text columns into hashes, grrrr!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What We&#8217;re Doing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>building an extremely complex calendar roster in excel for upload into SAP<\/li>\n<li>received in email: excel spreadsheet of every book bf has checked out of the library since 2005. Yes, this is how librarians date.<\/li>\n<li>i didn&#8217;t know i needed to be a financial wizard to be pastor. seminarians: learn excel. now.<\/li>\n<li>is trying hard to find an elegant solution to this damned Excel writing library<\/li>\n<li>Just recorded my first-ever Excel macro for a task I repeat every week in tracking my daily vitality and effectiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Quotes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Teaching Excel is not the same as teaching business.&#8221; &#8211; Jeffrey Zeldman<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oh the C, oh the C is the gradh geal mo croide, long may it stand between Excel and me&#8221; back to that C problem that bested me yest. \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Visit the Contextures website for help with an <a title=\"Excel VLOOKUP formula\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/xlVideos08.html#VLookup01\">Excel VLOOKUP formula<\/a><\/p>\n<p>_______________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reformatting error in the infamous Barclays Excel worksheet was the topic of several Twitters this week. There were also suggestions for improving Excel, grumbles, bragging, unusual uses and a couple of interesting quotes. Dear Excel My biggest Excel pet peeve is when the default colors are used in charts. Never have understood why Excel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/18\/excel-twitters-20081018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20081018&#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-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","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=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}