#excel

[lurks-no-more]

This is quite brilliant. :)

I thought today about a villanelle I had an inspiration there and then I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

It’s hard to keep the poems rigid shell On track inside my mind, so when I thought today about a villanelle

I thought about refrains re-rung like bells And how simple it might be to begin; I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

The line below these two, I brag to tell Is simply coded as =A1 I thought today about a villanelle

And this stanza’s refrain, I needn’t spell It out; it equals A3 and is done! I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

I planned to use this better, really sell The bit; but flew too closely to the sun. I thought today about a villanelle I wrote this in a spreadsheet in Excel

[Description: The above text is pictured in individual cells in column A of an Excel spreadsheet. The sheet’s title in the workbook is “Sheet Two Villanelle” and to prove the truth of how it was constructed, Cell A23 is selected; at the top of the image you can see that it does not actually contain any text, but just the Excel formula “=A1″. This is probably Art, somehow.] 

[a3poify]

Easter egg for office workers: if you go onto Excel and press ctrl+right, then ctrl+down, you will reach cell XFD1048576. If you put a dot in there, then ctrl+A and fill every cell in black, you can then print 34 million black pages from your office printer and get fired

[lordchinnychin]

Okay so in my Computer Applications class we learned about conditional formatting in Excel, where you can change the color of a cell by inputting certain values.

We're supposed to use it to model heat gradients in metals, but I found a better application:

FROG ART

[a-titty-ninja]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

okok i KNOW i promised I'd cool it with the new print designs since I made 8 of 'em in a fuckin week but like

the fact two seperate folks got it commissioned.....

yall want this as a print, right?

[phoenixyfriend]

New OC clones idea

His name is XL. He's average clone size, so people are naturally curious about what the name means. They ask if it's a dirty joke about his dingaling.

It's not. He pulls up some files. He's the quartermaster. He uses Space Excel, and it's not CALLED Excel, but he Excels at it. Hence XL.

His friends in two other battalions are Spread and Sheets. All of them get asked the Is It A Dirty Joke question and ALL respond with The Same Fucking Move (files).

This clone's job is spreadsheets and he LOVES it.

[thatdisasterauthor]

I need to finally cave and learn how to really use Excel, so does anyone have a recommendation for a good beginner Excel course that is TEXT BASED? I do not want to watch videos. Do not make me watch videos.

Free would be best, but anything under $30 would also be manageable right now.

I'm looking for a bare bones basics course to get started. There's things I've sort of learned how to do on my own over the years, but I'd rather start from scratch since I'm sure there's more efficient ways to do those things that I just don't know about.

[capitalism-and-analytics]

[animentality]

[copperbadge]

One of the things I do for my job every January is update a spreadsheet that contains all of the research my org has funded, and what the researchers went on to do after -- basically "We gave them $50K to study this disease and since then they've earned $2M in grants from other sources to continue that study." Overall we've had a great ROI.

But I took over the sheet two years ago, I didn't build it from scratch, and I had to modify it -- stuff like "separating researcher name into first and last name columns", adding a column for source URLs, a column for brief biographies, etc.

It's always had some formatting issues -- cells wouldn't align properly, or wouldn't wrap, or the row height would be truncated, and I couldn't figure out why.

Until I just took a look at the cell styles and realized that the person who had it before me, who was in finance, had formatted every column regardless of content to be either Currency or Accounting.

I'm gonna have to rebuild this fucker from scratch. I'm gonna have to copy the entire thing to a new sheet, paste without formatting, and reformat everything.

*cracks knuckles* should be fun!

(This is an example of how I am just Like That.)

[takapuolikuu]

Montako ihmistä tarvitaan excelin mielestä vaihtamaan palovaroittimen paristo?

1. tammikuuta 1990

[daakureisaiko]

[a-titty-ninja]

[expiredcheese]

[garbagebinne]