{"id":899,"date":"2011-04-08T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/08\/excel-twitter-20110408\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T04:02:00","slug":"excel-twitter-20110408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/08\/excel-twitter-20110408\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitter 20110408"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\/04\/image5.png\" width=\"152\" height=\"138\" \/> The cautionary Excel tale warns about sorting disasters, but doesn\u2019t mention frozen 3D pie charts or sunken pivot tables. Be careful out there!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spreadsheets have a more than passing resemblance to #battleship. ie: &quot;You just sunk my pivot table!&quot; <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve never had any performance issues with my computer. But apparently running a pivot table on 2 million records in Access is a lil much. <\/li>\n<li>Made the transition from Office 2003 to 2007. I find myself in a conditional formatting jungle. #excel <\/li>\n<li>Just put together a spreadsheet for organising babysitters. Unnerved and pleased in equal proportions. <\/li>\n<li>I wanted to show off an HLOOKUP formula I just wrote, but it was 36 characters too long for Twitter. Too bad. #excel #nerd <\/li>\n<li>Screw you pivot table. You won&#8217;t do what I want I&#8217;ll just extract the data myself! Ha!! <\/li>\n<li>ugh, the absolute worst time to have Excel crash is when you hit the &quot;save&quot; button #fml <\/li>\n<li>a more #helpful message from #excel would be: &quot;It&#8217;s too late, go to bed&quot; <\/li>\n<li>I love Excel. No, really, it&#8217;s true. I do. I might marry it one day, just to broadcast to the world my commitment to it. #ultimatesarcasm <\/li>\n<li>Just learned a new #Excel function: SUBSTITUTE. Helpful little bugger in the right situation, but isn&#8217;t everything like that. #nerd <\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve just learned about Excel&#8217;s 1900 and 1904 date systems. Unbelievable. Microsoft has redefined the word stupid. I&#8217;m being diplomatic. <\/li>\n<li>If I have to look at one more excel spreadsheet with codes on, I will cry! <\/li>\n<li>wish I&#8217;d known about paste special -&gt; transpose a long, long time ago. #excel #grades <\/li>\n<li>copying old e-mail addresses from paper to excel is.. interesting, important and valued work-task. Sure it is. #rant <\/li>\n<li>Music has taken over my academic priorities. Working on some Excel charts and getting my mind right. <\/li>\n<li>A cautionary tale for everyone who uses #Excel in their cubicles: <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/hH3Vtr\">http:\/\/j.mp\/hH3Vtr<\/a> #neuroskeptic <\/li>\n<li>I like to color-code my excel spreadsheets. #thingsdorkssay #iamadork <\/li>\n<li>I might be making peace with Microsoft #excel. Moving some of my metrics from txt files to excel sheets. Conditional formatting=Awesome. <\/li>\n<li>I just deliberately made a 3D pie chart and Excel froze up. See? I told you 3D pie charts are terrible! <\/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 Functions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contextures.com\/30excelfunctionsin30days30xl30d.html\">Excel Functions<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cautionary Excel tale warns about sorting disasters, but doesn\u2019t mention frozen 3D pie charts or sunken pivot tables. Be careful out there! Spreadsheets have a more than passing resemblance to #battleship. ie: &quot;You just sunk my pivot table!&quot; I&#8217;ve never had any performance issues with my computer. But apparently running a pivot table on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/04\/08\/excel-twitter-20110408\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitter 20110408&#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-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}