In this week\u2019s Excel Twitters we learn about fidelity, whiteboards, dads and Slippery Pete. I also discovered that VBA also means \u201cVirtual Bankruptcy Assistant\u201d, whatever that is. It was a long, cold week, but I didn\u2019t see any tweets about people burning their Excel files to stay warm during Thursday night\u2019s lengthy power outage in Toronto.<\/p>\n
And yes, Gordon Moar, I included your tweet, but only after I did a little background check. \ud83d\ude09 It looks like this tweet isn\u2019t the first thing you\u2019ve had published. Do you remember your letter to Electron User in January 1988<\/a>? Well, I hope that was you! If not, let me know, and I\u2019ll fire my research staff.<\/p>\n In this week\u2019s Excel Twitters we learn about fidelity, whiteboards, dads and Slippery Pete. I also discovered that VBA also means \u201cVirtual Bankruptcy Assistant\u201d, whatever that is. It was a long, cold week, but I didn\u2019t see any tweets about people burning their Excel files to stay warm during Thursday night\u2019s lengthy power outage in … Continue reading “Excel Twitters 20090117”<\/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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Minor Loss<\/h3>\n
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Dear Dad<\/h3>\n
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![Electron User in January 1988<\/a>? Well, I hope that was you! If not, let me know, and I\u2019ll fire my research staff.<\/p>\nA Minor Loss<\/h3>\n\nWhy are the insert and delete buttons next to each other in excel?<\/li>\nI wish Steve Ballmer could sit right next to me and watch his software at work. Maybe he would want to punch Excel too.<\/li>\nreally excel, what does “Minor loss of fidelity” mean? does it mean you were cheating on me with other users?<\/li>\nI find my excel warning message about a “minor loss of fidelity” strangely heartening. It’s, you know, a minor loss. It still loves me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDear Dad<\/h3>\n\nJust got done conducting a 5 minute crash course in Microsoft Excel with my dad. Man, that’s an up hill battle \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\nDad just called me to say, “I can’t see anything on your website. But maybe because that’s I have Excel 2003.” Wow, I had no response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nI Am Growing Up!<\/h3>\n\nThings Excel is not: Application platform, database, fast, 2nd coming of Christ, application platform, image container, Wine-friendly, open.<\/li>\nHoly cow, I just made a Budget in Excel! I am growing up!<\/li>\nWorking on our new CRM system called “Excel”. An upgrade from our existing system called “Whiteboard”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIt\u2019s a Nightmare<\/h3>\n\nJust saw comment on forum somewhere: “95% of my programming is in Excel using VBA.” Poor sod. Can’t the UN pass a resolution or something?<\/li>\nWriting VBA macro to automate 6 hr process. Why hasn’t my predecessor done this? 6 hours he doesn’t have to do anything else, me thinks.<\/li>\nI just can’t believe, honestly, that anyone can critique VBA. To some, it’s a nightmare, to me it’s a living<\/li>\nRealising that learning VBA for Excel may be the best investment of time I ever made. (From someone who hates everything Microsoft.)<\/li>\nVBA doesn’t read your mind, it just messes with it an awful lot<\/li>\n“if you need macros in Excel, you should be using Access” I realize that’s generalized for training, but still completely a lie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAwesome Graphs\u2026For Dummies<\/h3>\n\nin 07, I mostly used Access & Excel, ribbon UI is not that great, but I find it easier to program in 07 than 03.<\/li>\nDear sweet god in heaven. I love excel 2007 and how awesome it is to deal with graphs.<\/li>\nExcel 2007 feels like Excel for Dummies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIt\u2019s a Mental Game<\/h3>\n\nWorking on Excel spreadsheets is a tad easier if I imagine I’m doing so in the Caribbean – go ahead…try it!<\/li>\nI like changing my name in Office 2007 so people think the page is open by someone else. Today, Excel documents are open by “Slippery Pete”.<\/li>\nI’m going to be an excel-stentialist.<\/li>\nExcel tweets keep Debra amused. Wonder if this will make the list?<\/li>\nGreat blues songs about working in Excel have yet to be written. . . .<\/li>\nstaring at a pinata, a whiteboard, and an excel spreadsheet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this week\u2019s Excel Twitters we learn about fidelity, whiteboards, dads and Slippery Pete. I also discovered that VBA also means \u201cVirtual Bankruptcy Assistant\u201d, whatever that is. 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