will introduce you to the exciting new pivot table features in Excel 2007. Create quick summaries and pivot charts, add impact with traffic light icons, design calculated fields, group dates and numbers.
Excel Twitters 20080726
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Debra Dalgleish
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The blog has new posts Monday to Friday, with the occasional weekend post, such as this one. Today’s post is a summary of Excel comments found in Twitter yesterday, and as usual, it’s a love/hate thing.
There are those who express some love for Excel (I like the first one):
- The Windows Excel Help pages are surprisingly useful. Mastering pivot tables may double your income.
- Needing to learn Excel really badly—so I can trick out data stuff!
- i’m rockin’ the Excel sheets (for uses other than intended)
- I love using excel to reformat and create data providers for drop down menus.
- excel should not be used for project management.
- use Excel to track job optys, reqs to apply, deadlines, etc.
- Trying to make a link between word and excel, macro wise
- transcribing from my excel tracking sheet to paper ’cause the office can’t cope with electronic submission
And others who aren’t so happy, even those relentlessly cheerful Mac people:
- Second major Excel crash in 2 days - why do I still have to use MSFT software, even on a Mac?
- Excel just ran away with my processors again.
- I keep waiting for Excel to be friendly
- is skipping out on Excel Training, bc well it’s Excel Training
- dear excel 2008, I think it is so cute the way you hang every time I have to make a graph
- This sounds sad but it took me about a minute trying to figure out where the save icon was in Excel 2007
- ohh excel ribbon bar how i despise you
- wonders why the first option on right clicking in Excel for Mac is Help?
Filed under: Excel
Comment from Nick Hodge
Time: July 27, 2008, 1:26 pm
…trots off to earn lots of money doing number 1 on the ‘love list’
Comment from Debra Dalgleish
Time: July 27, 2008, 7:40 pm
Nick, when you’re making quadrillions, just remember where you learned that tip about pivot tables.
Comment from –Deb
Time: July 31, 2008, 9:32 am
I have to say that I rarely ever use Excel for number-crunching, but I use it ALL the time for laying out all sorts of other documents. The database listing all my books, for example, and my reading list. An amazing number of documents at work–worksheets, instructions, log sheets. I know LOTS of tricks for layout, formatting, styles, but practically nothing whatsoever about how to use it for equations. Really basic math, yes, but the more complicated numerical things that so many people use it for? Nope!
Comment from Debra Dalgleish
Time: July 31, 2008, 11:31 am
Deb, thanks for sharing how you use Excel. Rumour has it that about 80% of Excel workbooks don’t have any formulas in them, so you’re not alone!