The reformatting error in the infamous Barclays Excel worksheet was the topic of several Twitters this week. There were also suggestions for improving Excel, grumbles, bragging, unusual uses and a couple of interesting quotes.

Dear Excel

• My biggest Excel pet peeve is when the default colors are used in charts.
• Never have understood why Excel defaults to such lilliputian-sized text.
• Dear Excel - Remember that time I told you to stop assuming everything I type is a hyperlink? I meant it.
• Why does Excel have “Transpose” but not “Flip” in the paste menu?

I’m a Genius

• I am an Excel formula genius! Not that its a good thing, just say’n.
• Buckling down and figuring out pivot tables. Never wanted to be an Excel monkey, but I can see how theseare going to be useful.
• On the bus discussing Excel perf with excel pgm. Good stuff in the works.
• getting intimate with microsoft excel. this relationship is moving a little too fast for my taste.
• Just helped the accounting department save about 4-6 hours of work by showing them VLookup in Excel. What a powerful tool.
• is there anything better than excel? if pivot tables were a woman I would marry her.

Grrrr!

• aaaaa I’ve found the end of excel .. column IV … the earth is flat
• Excel error leaves Barclays with more Lehman assets than it bargained for
• my cunning plan to use Excel to document these business rules seems foiled by the fact it is turning my text columns into hashes, grrrr!

What We’re Doing

• building an extremely complex calendar roster in excel for upload into SAP
• received in email: excel spreadsheet of every book bf has checked out of the library since 2005. Yes, this is how librarians date.
• i didn’t know i needed to be a financial wizard to be pastor. seminarians: learn excel. now.
• is trying hard to find an elegant solution to this damned Excel writing library
• Just recorded my first-ever Excel macro for a task I repeat every week in tracking my daily vitality and effectiveness.

Quotes

• “Teaching Excel is not the same as teaching business.” - Jeffrey Zeldman
• “Oh the C, oh the C is the gradh geal mo croide, long may it stand between Excel and me” back to that C problem that bested me yest.

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