{"id":66,"date":"2008-11-01T20:51:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T00:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:52:23","slug":"excel-twitters-20081101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/01\/excel-twitters-20081101\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20081101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November? How did that happen? Again this week there were lots of tweets about the AC\/DC video distributed in an Excel workbook, but I&#8217;ll spare you from reading them. There was even a timely USA election related tweet, and I hope it&#8217;s the last one for another four years or so!<\/p>\n<p>And although I&#8217;m a Virgo, that first one isn&#8217;t from me. What kind of Virgo posts a typo?<\/p>\n<h3>Thrilling<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>am making lists. Gleeful, exhaustive, Virgotastc lists. In Excel.<\/li>\n<li>Back to crunching numbers. I can&#8217;t imagine doing this in the days before Excel. Must&#8217;ve been hell- candle wax dripping onto ledger books&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I get a sick thrill from financial modeling on excel spreadsheets. I love the tidy perfection and instant formulaic gratification.<\/li>\n<li>who would&#8217;ve thought you could have this much fun with excel pivot tables.<\/li>\n<li>2nd fav feature of Excel 2007 &#8211; having &#8216;wrap text&#8217; on home ribbon. Saves oodles of time when doing my biz plans \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>new personal record for largest Excel workbook &#8211; 1,533,492 cells used!!! o.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Macro Magic<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is it every time I record an Excel macro and think that&#8217;ll be good &#8216;nuf&#8230;I find myself re-writing the whole thing?<\/li>\n<li>VBA in excel can be the coolest thing ever when you get it to work. Otherwise it can send a sane man to insanity \u00fcber fast.<\/li>\n<li>Loves the person that wrote the Excel Plugin for Find and Replace within cell comments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Make It Do This<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Who knew that working a voter hotline actually meant tackling big ol&#8217; excel spreadsheets? The lengths I&#8217;ll go to for Barack&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I am on excel writing Italian American Places in Chicago!! CIAO A TUTTI!! i wish i COULD add more people on this thing<\/li>\n<li>When an IT leader suggests using Excel for long term data storage in a company with multi-TB SQL servers, it&#8217;s time to panic.<\/li>\n<li>lots of things that i&#8217;m not sure that excel is prepared to do. basically my boss drew something and said: make it do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Can I Go Blind?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>thinking that making timelines in excel is nearly impossible. giving up on that and trying to find something new.<\/li>\n<li>staring at balance sheets that don&#8217;t balance and thinking that there has to be a better way of managing projections than Excel spreadsheets.<\/li>\n<li>Nice. Excel 2007 just corrupted another document I was working directly in. Great. Such an advancement over the last version.<\/li>\n<li>Can I go blind from looking at Excel for 8 hours a day, every day?<\/li>\n<li>I hate excel. It shouldn&#8217;t take longer to make a graph than to do the experiment the data comes from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November? How did that happen? Again this week there were lots of tweets about the AC\/DC video distributed in an Excel workbook, but I&#8217;ll spare you from reading them. There was even a timely USA election related tweet, and I hope it&#8217;s the last one for another four years or so! And although I&#8217;m a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/01\/excel-twitters-20081101\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20081101&#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-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}