Excel needs glitter! And stronger coffee. And don't keep your goldfish near the pivot tables. Those are just a few of the things that I learned in Twitter this week. I'll bet J-Walk was worried that there wouldn't be a list, because of all the problems yesterday.
There were some interesting links too, including a tv trivia game (I scored 4 points!), and a music video that mentions VBA. Not the self-modifying kind though – you should probably avoid that.
So Geeky
- Please allow me to show you I'm not a geek with the help of this five page flowchart backed up by this pivot table... in Klingon.
- Sign your boyfriend is a geek: He sends you the dinner menu for the week in an Excel spreadsheet.
- Haha. Kenz just called me the "Spreadsheet Whisperer". Sometimes I like to refer to myself as the "Excel Kid". Zoiks, I'm so geeky.
Death by Data
- I never thought of MS Excel as a weapon but this client supplied "data" is killing me.
- is spending the day making analytics reports... and watching the Daily Show. Jon Stewart seems to make Excel bearable.
- A client gave us his "design" in Excel. After one month of struggling, I refunded his $1k and never wanted to hear from him anymore.
Scattered Features
- Huge panic accidentally caused by Excel's "Hide Window" option now over.
- Excel 2007 is packed with loads of features. Unfortunately all these features are scattered in places that never existed in version 200...
- OMG I wish Excel had a History pane like Adobe products. ugggghhhh.....
- need more glitter and ribbons in my office. way too many spreadsheets and strategic nonsense. excel needs a glitter feature
Twix and Tarts
- My coffee stopped working at 10 AM. I started looking at Excel spreadsheets and considered channeling Piet Mondrian. I need stronger coffee.
- Would rather be in the kitchen right now with my new tart pans than be working on this lame Excel spreadsheet...
- Excel spreadsheets, a Twix and West Ham cufflinks. Glengarry Glen Ross, English-style.
Google Is Your Friend
- It's days like today where I hate knowing as much as I do about MS Excel, as I invariably find out that I really don't know enough about it
- Google is your friend. Anything Excel related is there somewhere and very well explained in triplicate.
- I really thought my degree in Journalism would exempt me from Microsoft Excel equations for the rest of my life. I thought wrong.
Too Much Excitement
- still can't figure out how to format a pivot table like the example. too bad there were no points for creativity on the test.
- Just returned from a gruelling he said/she said pivot table chart discussion with the bossman. I was right. He was wrong.
- Maurizio, my office goldfish who has been with me for the past 7 or 8 years has sadly died. The excitement of excel pivots proved too much
- Fixing #excel pivot tables and charts for Chartered Accountants and Specialists. Upgrading microsoft s/w sure generates more work.
Vital Information
- Airline meals. Just missing happy hour. Excel spreadsheets – from 11,002 Things to be Miserable About: http://tinyurl.com/c8pvka
- It looks like you're trying to change the time-space continuum with Microsoft Excel, do you need help with that?
- Coffee break Inspired by Danger Mouse – see how many classic tv kids shows you can remember with this excel quiz http://bit.ly/puXk3
- You should make an excel sheet of hobo-to-hipsterness. And graph it. This is vital information.
Sick of VBA
- It's not every day you hear a song with the line "I'm tired of coding Perl and I'm sick of VBA". http://is.gd/25ELq (about the 40 second mark)
- Could someone sterilize that piece of code? I'm afraid it could evolve into a species... (on self-modifying VBA http://is.gd/25EaB)
- HAHA! I had to program VBA. It's terrible. And the Excel help would pull up articles in Japanese and Spanish. Need MATLAB.
- I also found out today that Excel already has had a feature since at least 2003 for doing what we wrote tons of VBA code to do ourselves.
Accounting Humour
- 5 new email addresses, a vicious looking letter opener and one very long excel spreadsheet later and i have completed my first day @ work!
- Oh good–more entry-level MS Office courses from the corp training dept. Why are we hiring people who need "Excel Level 1??
- After helping with Excel shortcuts: "you're more useful than the paperclip." Ah, the fringe benefits of being in finance.
- Our intern is using a computer so old, it has Excel 1.0. Hyuk hyuk. Accounting humor.
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That VBA song was by a real band, too. I'm impressed, or saddened, I'm not sure which.
Google is your friend. Anything Excel related is there somewhere and very well explained in triplicate.
For the sake of Excel book authors, let's hope that little secret doesn't become widespread.