Excel Twitters 20080823

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Tim Mayes

August 23, 2008 at 4:19 pm · Reply

>>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

Ain't that the truth! Not only that, but they will still have the same quirks/bugs (on purpose). I'm sure that somebody has an article somewhere about Excel functions with quirks/bugs that are there for backwards compatibility. A year or so ago, I wrote in my blog about how the NPV function doesn't calculate net present value.

That's one, who's got the whole list?

Thanks again, Debra. I'm still enjoying these twitter posts.
Debra Dalgleish

August 23, 2008 at 6:37 pm · Reply

Thanks Tim, and this article has quite a few Excel issues listed: http://www.daheiser.info/excel/frontpage.html
Dave

August 24, 2008 at 9:16 pm · Reply

Those twitter quotes (twotes???) sound like they should be the chapter headings or at least in the intro for the new(??) PT book.

(or Quotes from twitter = Quitter!)
Debra Dalgleish

August 24, 2008 at 11:13 pm · Reply

Dave, great idea! The "sunglasses and crisps" one might be worth a couple of chapters.