One after another, they all came just after us. When Anoop (my groupmate) told me to wear formals to the class since we have a presentation to make, little did I imagined what the situation would be. After first two presentations it became clear that staying awake throughout 19 presentations each of them lasting for 10-15 mins is not an easy task. Of all the things on the earth the presentations were on group dynamics, people profiles, organizational assessment, blah blah blah etc. I can tell you, this stuff is seriously boring. You just cant consume more than 5 words a day. Imagine hearing something like,
“The organization is growing organically. Sustainability of such growth in an amorphous environment will lead the organization to achieve excellence in employee satisfaction and optimal use of used plastic plates.”
Worse still imagine yourself saying the same to 50 odd people and make them clap at the end of all this. Ah! it wasnt easy at all. To add to all this our group managed to overshoot time by a considerable margin. Not to mention the fact that the classmates didnt receive this free airtime offer with open hands.
So after what looked like 5 hours and 57 voices and 100 odd slides and hazaar doze offs my head started spinning when the class finally broke. With a heavy head and painful body I came back to my room. After a short break I left for the group dinner.
Actually Shadab (the other groupmember) wanted to go for a movie. I convinced him in “having a good time sitting together for longtime over a nice drink and food and chatting to the glory” and we are finally at “Silver Oak” by 9. It was great fun. We indulged shamelessly in poultry (ahem, ahem), vodka, ice cream, chinese and desi food items. It was good fun talking as if there is no QT project in life.
Just now I came back to hostel after a wonderful ride through chilly Indore roads. Me planning to catch “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron” now. And looks like my item # 1,2 and 3 will pretty much be satisfied by tomorrow. :d
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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!