{"id":90,"date":"2009-01-31T21:14:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T01:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:15:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:15:29","slug":"excel-twitters-20090131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/31\/excel-twitters-20090131\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Twitters 20090131"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excel, chocolate fish or glue gun? Which would you choose?<\/p>\n<p>Cabin fever seems to be taking hold on Excel users who Twitter. Their winter-addled brains imagine that Excel is a living, breathing, evil being. But that\u2019s just silly. Excel is a bit cranky sometimes, but it\u2019s not evil.<\/p>\n<p>More people must be using Excel 2007, because the \u201closs of fidelity\u201d message gets a few mentions every week. Ah yes, we Excel users are a pretty funny bunch. Or maybe you just need a sense of humour to survive Excel hell.<\/p>\n<h3>Ruh Roh<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>couldn&#8217;t understand why my computer was running so slow, but after a check of task Manager I discovered I had 16 instances of Excel running!<\/li>\n<li>a while back i created a super secret excel file for work. guess i did a good job of hiding it, because i can&#8217;t find it anywhere. *grumble*<\/li>\n<li>an officemate collapsed whilst doing his excel worksheet&#8230;tsktsktsk. it&#8217;s not worth it, man<\/li>\n<li>ruh roh. grumbling about Excel on Twitter and 48 hrs later I am getting spam about Excel training.<\/li>\n<li>waiting for my pivot table to return from it&#8217;s self imposed exile, where it&#8217;s gone to i know not just that it&#8217;s taken 100% of my cpu with it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Happy Times<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Having a sneaky chocolate fish and operating under the premise that if there&#8217;s an Excel spreadsheet open, everyone thinks you&#8217;re working.<\/li>\n<li>Just was given three bottle of Hornitos for solving an Excel related problem.<\/li>\n<li>I haven&#8217;t been this happy in weeks: my OLAP pivot table thing actually has the correct data in it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>It&#8217;s All In Your Mind<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Sometimes I think MS Excel reads my mind and deliberately does the opposite of what I want.<\/li>\n<li>pretty sure my excel model has become self-aware; let me know if you see any terminators around\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Any guy who writes Excel macros is on the GOOD page in my book! &#8220;Getting&#8221; VisiCalc in the summer of 1982 totally changed my life!<\/li>\n<li>Wrangling with VBA in excel so that people don&#8217;t have to think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Prepare Yourself<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Feeling thwarted- I quit being an accountant because it sucks rocks, but here I sit creating an Excel spreadsheet for the play I&#8217;m designing<\/li>\n<li>Never ever ever think it&#8217;s a good idea to put all your debt into excel, then hit the Sum function without preparing yourself for it first<\/li>\n<li>too bad building a model of a spacecraft means a series of spreadsheets in excel. Pipecleaners, cardboard &amp; a glue gun would be more fun \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Very Disappointing<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If stupid MS Excel had some nifty way of exporting graphs as PNG or JPG files, that&#8217;d be so freaking awesome, right now it&#8217;s all a bit FAIL.<\/li>\n<li>seriously? I can&#8217;t copy entries from name manager from one workbook to another? Excel 2007- i&#8217;m very disappointed in you.<\/li>\n<li>Only having mean in Excel tables pivot tables to show &#8216;average&#8217; stinks. A single outlier can throw off the summarized data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Comedy of Errors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>puzzled by Microsoft Office&#8217;s dire warnings of a &#8220;loss of fidelity&#8221; in my Excel worksheet. Should I reposition my antenna? Use reel-to-reel?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Microsoft Office Excel is currently recovering your documents.&#8221; When you&#8217;re done with that Microsoft Office will you recover my couch?<\/li>\n<li>I want to go back in time and make sure the mother of the guy who invented Excel never falls in love with his father.<\/li>\n<li>Mired in Excel spreadsheets. There is a fine line between BI and BS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excel, chocolate fish or glue gun? Which would you choose? Cabin fever seems to be taking hold on Excel users who Twitter. Their winter-addled brains imagine that Excel is a living, breathing, evil being. But that\u2019s just silly. Excel is a bit cranky sometimes, but it\u2019s not evil. More people must be using Excel 2007, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/31\/excel-twitters-20090131\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excel Twitters 20090131&#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-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excel-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exceltheatre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}