Excel Twitters 20090821

One tweet complained that it took 5 minutes to adjust the zoom in Excel 2007. I feel their pain. This week it took me almost that long to find the version info (Office Button, Excel Options, Resources, About).

There are some interesting links, including a map of H1N1 severity, in case you need to know. And a nice example of decorating the office. Now I have to go and alphabetize my albums in Excel – it'll look like I'm working!

Good Ideas

• Mind you this was after they sent me an unencrypted excel file with EVERY PASSWORD IN THE COMPANY!!!
  
• Is "Die, Excel, Die" an acceptable thing to write in an Microsoft Error Report?
  
• No officer I wasn't texting while driving... I was updating an excel spreadsheet

Signal to Noise Ratio

• Note to self: graphs and trendlines hate the Excel camera tool. They make it explode.
  
• Missing B&W pattern fills in Excel 2007 charts? This add-in restores what Microsoft inexplicably removed: http://is.gd/2ov6a
  
• Just created the busiest Excel chart of my career. Signal to noise ratio surrenders.
  
• If you have MS Excel, try my interactive severity map at http://tinyurl.com/oh9e4v

Good Sports

• Excel treats Indiana's overall record last year (6-25) as a date. That about sums it up.
  
• I want Lou Piniella and Jim Hendry fired. Now. RIGHT NOW. A 9-year-old with Excel could have planned this season better.

2000 and Late

• Its excel spreadsheet-tastic here today :( Thank crunchie for ipods
  
• making an img-post of 36 fav albums was very OCD-satisfying: put list in Excel, alphabetize, convert imgs to 100px, arrange in grid...
  
• quote from a coworker: "im using Excel 2000 and late"

Better Than People

• Mmm. Spreadsheets. Better than speaking to people. Much love for Excel.
  
• there is a loud and inexplicable puppet show on in the park...it's harshing my concentration on this pivot table thing
  
• I hate Excel. I wish one of us was smarter.
  
• It's Saturday night and I'm googling "fun things to do in excel"

Other Applications?

• Power point is 25 years old today...I hate Excel more than Powerpoint...what's your most hated MS Office application?
  
• If your life were defined by a microsoft office product, which software would be u and why? I'm MS excel, I'm like the formulas, vry complex
  
• I see bloggers referring to #msgemini as "Excel on Steroids." Really, it's more like HGH.
  
• Using Excel as a database pales in comparison with the atrocities people misuse PowerPoint for.

Quality Adjusted

• http://twitpic.com/ecwqp – It may not be the best way, but it saved me a LOT of time. Thank god for Excel. And gin.
  
• Design crime! a restaurant menu done in msft excel!! (I couldn't even decipher it) http://post.ly/2L9Y
  
• trying to program microsoft excel to plan entire portions of people's lives with the entry of a single date. if anyone has any experience...
  
• Quality-adjusted life years. already used in the UK, this excel-friendly statistical measure helps government bureaucrats rate your value.

Decreasing Productivity

• It took me 5mins to figure out how to zoom in my worksheet in excel 2007. This is decreasing productivity or I'm clearly slow
  
• Excel 2007 just nearly cost me my job. Thanks, Microsoft, for replacing a sensible menu driven interface with this ribbon shit. #epicfail
  
• i hate this compatibility check in excel 2007.. why not just say, "nothing you do is going to work in 2003 or earlier" instead?

Daily Procrastination

• decorated my hallway at work. designed it in excel first, of course http://twitpic.com/e7uq6
  
• So far today, I've made a pointless Excel spreadsheet as part of my daily procrastination, and spent an hour chasing Agents. Now for Coffee.
  
• Haha! Sometimes I open Excel and reformat the rows and columns of a spreadsheet and add new colors. Looks like I'm working.

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