Another week, another wave of Excel Twitters. It’s always interesting to see what people are up to, using Excel in ways it was never intended. At least one person is hitting the Save button, so that’s an improvement.
And I’m pretty sure I know that guy from Columbia, with the Excel questions in FaceBook. Not the [...]
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Another week in Twitterville, with the usual whining about Excel crashes and lost data. Here’s a tip — save your work in Excel every 10 minutes. Don’t blame Excel when you lose a day’s work because you never bothered to hit the Save button. Geez.
Oh, and Excel comes with a Help file — don’t be [...]
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November? How did that happen? Again this week there were lots of tweets about the AC/DC video distributed in an Excel workbook, but I’ll spare you from reading them. There was even a timely USA election related tweet, and I hope it’s the last one for another four years or so!
And although I’m a Virgo, [...]
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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 [...]
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I’ve been travelling all week, and am glad to be home again. It’s a long weekend in Canada, with Thanksgiving on Monday, but no twitters about that yet. However, clogging up the Excel Twitter search this week was the Excel Centre in London. This twitter explains it: “Three conferences at the Excel Centre: Web Apps, [...]
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There was less complaining about Excel than usual this week in Twitter world. Maybe it’s the economy. People are chatting about Excel in the classroom, on the job, at home and even on the subway. And please be careful if you’re ever filling in a paper survey. Thanks!
Fun With Charts
Working on lesson plans. Who knew [...]
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Another week in the world of Excel Twitters, with the usual moaning and groaning, and the occasional high five. Innocent children are lured into the scary world of charts and spreadsheets, and Excel is simultaneously creating and solving all the world’s problems. And no, that wasn’t me in the coffee shop.
Patiently Waiting
downloading the 60 day [...]
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As summer comes to an end (well in the Northern Hemisphere), people are huddled over their spreadsheets, assessing their careers, and cooking up plans of world domination, one co-worker at a time. This week’s Twitters show that thoughts have also turned to food and drink, with spreadsheet on the side. A long winter is ahead [...]
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Although the title of today’s blog pretty much describes my meeting notes (what the heck do those scribbles mean?), I’m referring to a couple of utilities I found this week. Both have been very helpful already, so you might find them useful too.
Print What You Like
First is Print What You Like, a web site that [...]
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“Microsoft Excel has no keyboard shortcut for “save as”. Probably because they are *only* on version 11.”
That was one of the Twitters that I posted on Saturday. However, as Jason Morin pointed out in the comments, you can use the F12 key to open the Save As dialog box.
Why didn’t the twitterer know that? Well, [...]
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