This week there were several twitters about Excel and music, but no consensus on the type of music that works best. There’s also a growing number of twitters comparing Excel to Apple’s Numbers. There are the usual battles with Excel, and even a few people talking about pivot tables. And apologies to all the cat lovers, but the last comment in today’s list is my favourite.

Excel is Music to My Ears

• Sitting down in front of Excel for an epic planning session, and “Don’t Stop Believing” from Journey comes up on random play. Good or bad?
• Listening to the Across the Universe soundtrack and entering this never-ending mailing list into excel. Such a pain.
• Listening to Josh Ritter’s “The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter” while I enter invoices into my budget tracking excel spreadsheets.
• absolutely loving Pandora.com today. really helps me on days like this where i am using Excel constantly.
• Listening to Metallica, grinning like an idiot, trying to keep my head and feet still - trying to block out mind numbing excel work!

Excel vs Numbers

• Excel is ugly and smart. Numbers is pretty and stupid.
• When I open an excel doc in Mac Numbers I feel like I’m personally giving Bill Gates the finger…and I like it.
• Maybe so, but when I couldn’t add a trendline in Numbers, I switched to Excel. One piece of crap or another.
• Excel = bane of my existence. I hate virtually everything about it. Unfortunately, there’s no suitably powerful alternative. Numbers = joke.
• Figured out how to individual schedules for teachers using iWork Numbers. Not flawless enough for picky me, but more handsome than Excel.
• Just spent an hour debugging a cell forumlae in Numbers. Remembering fondly the VB back-end to Excel.

The Zen of Pivot Tables

• Ever say to yourself, “nothing in my youth prepared me to create pivot tables in excel” or is it just me?
• One of my staff is getting very excited about pivot tables in Excel. She is quite odd
• the zen of msft excel - find peace in your pivot table
• Pivot tables? No accounting for taste
• It’s 2.30am, I got a problems with Excel pivot tables, half a pack of crisps, it’s dark, and I’m wearing sunglasses.

Let the Battle Begin

• There’s a minor Excel/Windows Vista tantrum going on in the living room. I’m readying the tranquilizer darts.
• pushing enter on an excel doc at work all day maybe merits its own drinking game
• welcome to the dark side, where we use Microsoft Excel and see little white boxes in our sleep, like a less fun Tetris
• no matter whose Office suite you use 20 years from now, you’ll be using the same Excel formulas. They’re not going away; learn them
• Excel Charts makes me want to punch kittens. It is SO Monday.

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