{"id":68,"date":"2008-11-08T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T00:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2009-09-07T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:54:23","slug":"excel-twitters-20081108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/08\/excel-twitters-20081108\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20081108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week in Twitterville, with the usual whining about Excel crashes and lost data. Here&#8217;s a tip &#8212; save your work in Excel every 10 minutes. Don&#8217;t blame Excel when you lose a day&#8217;s work because you never bothered to hit the Save button. Geez.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Excel comes with a Help file &#8212; don&#8217;t be afraid to use it.<\/p>\n<h3>Incredibly Annoying<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>it&#8217;s incredibly annoying to not be able to take excel sheets outside of the excel program window<\/li>\n<li>I keep running these massive, macro-driven excel reports while having ~17 other apps going. Why is my computer whining?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Satan will take the form of Excel spreadsheet cell G-14 this week and refuse to assume the proper formatting. &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Damnit &#8211; I&#8217;ve had my recommended lifetime dosage of Excel three times in a row now. Next thing, I&#8217;m thinking in $Absolute $References&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Always, *always* been able to help co-workers with every conceivable Word and Excel issue, But MS is working just as hard to stop that.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t mind so much when Access and Excel try to think for me, but when they&#8217;re wrong, I expect them to listen to me.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;cries salty tears over Excel. LOOKUP requires data to be sorted in ascending order? Why didn&#8217;t you JUST FRICKIN&#8217; SAY SO! 2 hrs lost&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pretty Fancy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I need a cheap laptop- all it has to do is show me DVDs on Windows media and run excel.<\/li>\n<li>Just calculated that I&#8217;ve spent over 15hrs in Excel since Saturday afternoon. The business world runs on XLSX files, that is certain.<\/li>\n<li>I love the smell of Excel and Reports in the morning<\/li>\n<li>thanking an irrational, imaginary deity for Excel (no, not Bill Gates who is very real)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an excel chart badass! Not really, but I did feel pretty fancy for like, 5 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Mmmm&#8230;Excel Food<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Planning turkey dinner for 25, using Excel spreadsheet with Gantt charts and pivot tables. Does it get any geekier than this?<\/li>\n<li>playing with dry &amp; fluid ounce conversions in an Excel spreadsheet. Yep, I&#8217;m a baking geek.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Hmmm&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>AC\/DC&#8217;s video-in-Excel is great, but it raises an alarming question: how&#8217;d a generation of teenage stoners become accountants?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week in Twitterville, with the usual whining about Excel crashes and lost data. Here&#8217;s a tip &#8212; save your work in Excel every 10 minutes. Don&#8217;t blame Excel when you lose a day&#8217;s work because you never bothered to hit the Save button. Geez. Oh, and Excel comes with a Help file &#8212; don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/08\/excel-twitters-20081108\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20081108&#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-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}