well, that pretty much summerizes the scene of 2 mids i had today.
first in the day i had finance mid. well, as somebody was saying after the exam ‘the prof had left only 4 ratios in the text book’. Anybody who knows the spelling of finance can guess that at the most rudimentary level, fin is nothing but ratio analysis. Now any sane text book with 1200 pages on fin (actullay, coming to think of it, it doesnt seem that sane either :P) will have minimum one ratio per page and that translates into something like hazaar ratios. Given that we had only 300 of those leaves for mid, you can imagine the kind of mugging required to remmeber the stupid stuff.
I for one tried to capture the essence of these ratios and was confident that i can reproduce or derive the ratios in exam hall. Talking about the paper, as it is the paper is very lenghty. and the time is 3.5 hours. I never had the disgrace of inivigilator snatching the paper in my whole life till today. well, now even i can boast about this.
Apart from the wastage of 14 pages worth trees and one nights sleep the fin mid dint provide much work to my brain.
With that i thought may be i can spend sometime on OM paper.
On the broad outset the paper looking like another marathon race. but once i started reading the questions i felt like kicking myself coz, i only prepared for problems. What we had today is nowhere near problems. well, we had 2 cases and one model based problem. but most of it is theory. after fighting for 120 mins trying answer questions like ‘what are the managerial responsibilities of project manager?’ and ‘what are the milestones in this project’ i gave up and came back to the hostel.
the best part of the day started only then. We had *very* tasty Utappams as snacks today. I would say they are simply superb. after gulping some ‘n’ (due to security reasons the number is not revealed.) utappams and cuppa, i came back to 305 and crashed for a couple of hours.
Just now i have completed watching Flavors. Awesome movie. for some strange reason i lack the strange ability to produce strange looking movie reviews. so, all i can say is, watch it if you want to feel good. a rider though, if you are not a software engineer then you might not be able to appreciate half the movie. 😀
That is all for now. Hope the other half of this kichidi term goes well too.
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Ciao Hui,
Collecting Excel tricks under the title “Notable Excel Websites (Non-MVP) Edition” is a brilliant idea…
Thank you in the name of all The FrankensTeam.
On our site there is a box with a picture and text highlighting:
This is a no-MVP site
we think ourselves “bad boys” a bit 🙂
For those who would like to know why our site is a no-MVP site, enough to click on the link:
http://goo.gl/lxDszY
Thank you again!
Thanks a lot
I really enjoyed this (newsletter). I must admit that I rarely read an Excel newsletter (and I subscribe to quite a few) all the way though, but this grabbed my attention and before I realized it, I was engrossed in it. I must also admit that most of this I don’t understand, yet. But, it excites me when I do learn something new in Excel. I can’t wait to see how much of this I can implement into my (constantly-evolving) ‘House Budget’ & ‘Family Medical’ worksheets that I have developed over the past few years! I sure hope to see more of these type of newsletters in the future! Thanks!
Thanks for doing this Hui! I appreciate being included.
I like Tom’s tip a lot. I posted about a tool I wrote to automate this at http://yoursumbuddy.com/tables-edit-query-dialog/
EXCELLENT !
Hui, This post is Superb! More over I have always been a fan of Roberto’s work and have learnt a lot from him.
Here are some of my recent contributions
1. Customising markers in a chart – http://www.goodly.co.in/customize-markers-in-a-chart/
2. Charting Hacks to work faster – http://www.goodly.co.in/5-charting-hacks-to-help-you-work-faster/
3. 7 Date formulas to make life easy – http://www.goodly.co.in/date-formulas-in-excel/
4. Customised scrollbar using VBA – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
5. Adding Direct Legends – http://www.goodly.co.in/customized-scroll-bar-in-excel/
Hope everyone enjoys!
I like the Excel Ninja Menus.
1. Select a cell or range then move till the 4-way cross appears. Right-Click and drag the selection to another place in the worksheet then, like a ninja, a menu full of skills and throwing stars pops up allowing me to do all kinds of awesomeness.
2. When you click the fill box on a Date and right click and drag it down, a lot of amazing Date options pop up.
I also brand my Excel to remind myself that I’m awesome. In my personal macro workbook I place the following code.
Private Sub Workbook_Open()
Application.Caption = “SuperKrishna’s Awesomeness”
End Sub
My favorite tip goes along with #17. If you try to copy subtotaled data (and in earlier Excel versions filtered data),when you paste it all the data displays instead of just the summarized data.
To get around this, select your summarized data, click on Find and Select tab and then select Go to Special. Click Visible cells Only and click OK. Now paste and you will see that only the summarized data has been copied.
You can also go CTRL+G and then click the Special icon at the bottom of the dialog box.
What a great idea, Chandoo! I’d love to be included in your next edition:) Perhaps a VBA exclusive version?
@Ryan
I will review this concept about 6 months out from the original post and be sure to keep your site in mind
Hui…
That sounds great, Hui:) I just realized I gave credit to Chandoo for the idea and I should have attributed it to you.
Sorry about that!