Excel Twitters 20090814

Will Excel be banned too? Some people seem to hope so, judging by this week's tweets. But without Excel, how would we get all that data visualization work done? And what would the Google people use for their real work?

And the pivot table at the Facebook office isn't quite the same as the pivot tables that I'm used to, but it's still impressive! Chuck Norris and the Terminator would probably agree.

When To Use Excel

• I love the fact that a Google rep just sent me a spreadsheet in Excel format. Google Docs? Oh wait, this is for actual work. ;)
  
• How much do I love Google Docs and hate Excel 2007? I only use Excel for stuff that I don't want Google to see.
  
• Data visualization is the antithesis to reports in Excel. When will @microsoft develop a visualization program or app?
  
• Its not business data until it hits excel.

Catastrophic Failure

• Excel sucks so hard you could vacuum the floor by waving it around. That is all.
  
• Scrolling aimlessly through an Excel sheet, looking like Jack Nicholson in the final scene of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
  
• Microsoft Excel had a little trouble opening a document and called it a "catastrophic failure." I think it's being a bit melodramatic.
  
• #Microsoft won't let me download an excel template form their website, cause I'm not running #Windows. WTF!? #Fail Microsoft, simply FAIL!

Education: Priceless

• why isn't Excel taught in high school? Does anyone have a job where they don't use some form of spreadsheet software?
  
• Thought I was a pro at Excel. I think I actually know how to do about 25% of its functions. Text to columns is sweet!
  
• i just calculated, if i improve my excel skills by 15% i would be finishing tasks in 40% lesser time. Hmm need to get some tips
  
• I was in an excel class today, I feel on top of the world... Only to realize I am going to forget everything I just learned.
  
• Books: $700/semester. Sorority: $400/semester. Excel-created schedule breaking the day into 15 minute intervals: priceless

Superheroes

• MS Excel remains the Chuck Norris of the Office 2007 suite.
  
• Knowledge of light spelunking and Excel a plus. Ha, I want this screen print. http://bit.ly/17TCYo
  
• The Terminator actually started out as an Excel spreadsheet. -- a hilarious colleague

Excel Experts

• accroding to jillian, twitter is for dorks. im not taking the prognostications of self-desribed microsoft excel experts too seriously though
  
• I enjoy using VBA or C++. Between that and Twitter my English is going to crap (Docmd.Close).
  
• Sorry, but Excel is my go-to I use it for everything. Once I re-plastered a hallway using only MS Excel
  
• Back up to Edinburgh today. So much to see I have colour coded excel spreadsheet. There's an irony there versus chaos of festival ..

Word on the Street

• really don't want any more features in MS Office. would really like it if they removed anything to do with links from Excel and Word though.
  
• MS Word has been banned in the US. Can't wait for Excel to be banned as well.
  
• ah but they can't sell you word. I hear excel is a good word processor if your squint a lot!
  
• So Microsoft's discontinuing Entourage, and of course Word's been banned -- Excel must be getting worried.

I Need a Pivot Table

• Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excel http://bit.ly/18Tw6t
  
• Computer question of the day: "How do you do a reach around in excel?" They wanted to wrap text.
  
• I see my professional life will be spent colouring Excel sheet cells and typing long mails explaining why I chose to colour them so.
  
• The new facebook office looks amazing! Check out the pivot table. http://bit.ly/o5Vv0

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