{"id":820,"date":"2011-02-24T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/24\/excel-twitter-20110224\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T05:02:00","slug":"excel-twitter-20110224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/24\/excel-twitter-20110224\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20110224"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/image13.png\" width=\"101\" height=\"91\" \/> Lots of Excel charting problems in yesterday&#8217;s tweets. Maybe a day on the ski slopes would help!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There aren&#8217;t many jobs where you have a spreadsheet that says things like &#8216;I made a unicorn&#8217;, and &#8216;Giraffes can&#8217;t dance&#8217;. #Ihaveastrangejob <\/li>\n<li>I have just discovered Pivot tables in Excel. This day is comparable to the day I discovered mail merge. <\/li>\n<li>Shout out to the fella behind me: I know you&#8217;re peeping my tweeting activities. *opens an Excel spreadsheet* <\/li>\n<li>Spending whole day driveling over if spreadsheet cells should be red, yellow, or green. Mindless speculation. <\/li>\n<li>Guess what I get to do today? It&#8217;s a pivot table! Dammit! Why?! April 16, I&#8217;m setting excel on fire. It&#8217;s settled. <\/li>\n<li>Grinding my teeth over this stupid Excel thing&#8230; now my teeth hurt&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>#excel sucks! It auto converts some of my gene symbols to dates and I can&#8217;t format them back&#8230;grrr <\/li>\n<li>Negotiating my way down a choppy red ski slope is much more fun than negotiating a diabolical excel sheet. #FML <\/li>\n<li>If you are applying for a job as a comp bio professor its probably not a good idea to use excel to make graphs &amp; pie charts. #rstats <\/li>\n<li>Sometimes the lack of creativity with charts\/graphs in Excel is maddening. And by sometimes I mean always. <\/li>\n<li>And the sighing.. Hair pulling drama has begun..(Over some spreadsheet) its not even 9am yet! <\/li>\n<li>Mad I just wasted a good thirty minutes on Excel because I didn&#8217;t know the difference btwn a bar graph and a column chart. <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m bring a party hat made out of an Excel spreadsheet. <\/li>\n<li>My husband required the skills of the Excel Goddess. And she obliged. #Excel=pathtoenlightenment <\/li>\n<li>As a CS major, I used to make fun of ppl taking classes for Excel, but I&#8217;ve spent last 3 hrs trying to make a chart. Wish I&#8217;d taken a class. <\/li>\n<li>A couple more pivot tables and you&#8217;ll need to marry that Excel file. #WhiteCollarSmackdown <\/li>\n<li>Sometimes instead of fixing others mistakes it&#8217;s just easier to start from the beginning yourself. #Excel <\/li>\n<li>One Excel model built. Six to go. Is it time to go home yet? :s <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___________<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Charts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/charts.html\">Excel Charts<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Pivot Tables\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/CreatePivotTable.html\">Excel Pivot Tables<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Excel Data Entry Tips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/xlDataEntry01.html\">Excel Data Entry Tips<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Lots of Excel charting problems in yesterday&#8217;s tweets. Maybe a day on the ski slopes would help! There aren&#8217;t many jobs where you have a spreadsheet that says things like &#8216;I made a unicorn&#8217;, and &#8216;Giraffes can&#8217;t dance&#8217;. #Ihaveastrangejob I have just discovered Pivot tables in Excel. This day is comparable to the day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/24\/excel-twitter-20110224\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitter 20110224&#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-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","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=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}