Spreadsheet Day 2019 Wrap Up

by Debra · October 18, 2019

Thanks for joining in the celebrations for Spreadsheet Day 2019. Here is a roundup of the tweets that I saw yesterday. And remember, there’s no “National” in Spreadsheet Day.

Spreadsheet Day Tweets

Here’s the first tweet that I saw on Spreadsheet Day 2019, from Andy Gordon and the Calc Intelligence project at Microsoft Research.

On behalf of the https://t.co/LphKBlAu8N project at @MSFTResearchCam
Happy Spreadsheet Day everyone! https://t.co/vwjWfhxxCr @ddalgleish

— Andy Gordon (@AndrewDGordon) October 17, 2019

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The next tweet was from Tiller – they’ve been big supporters of Spreadsheet Day.

Read our interview with @ddalgleish, the founder of #SpreadSheetDay: https://t.co/kLuePz6UXD pic.twitter.com/H71BvcNo8K

— Tiller Money (@tillermoney) October 17, 2019

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VisiCalc co-creator, Dan Bricklin, tweeted about Spreadsheet Day too.

In honor of #spreadsheetday (one of several milestone dates in the final process of getting shrink-wrapped copies of VisiCalc to purchasers 40 years ago) here’s a link to my talk on https://t.co/mqI8C8oT1N about VisiCalc: https://t.co/7kpnIEPQih

— Dan Bricklin (@DanB) October 17, 2019

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In honour of Spreadsheet Day, Microsoft’s Excel team held a live “Ask Microsoft Anything” event. Did you ask or answer any questions?

The #Excel team is here, ready for your questions. Join the AMA: https://t.co/eZOc7p6wwe #SpreadsheetDay pic.twitter.com/d7sRBGgMiZ

— Tech Community (@MSTCommunity) October 17, 2019

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More Spreadsheet Day Tweets

There were lots more tweets, throughout the day.

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This is an excellent question – Why didn’t the kids get the day off from school?

Today is national #SpreadsheetDay!?! How did I miss this? I have spreadsheets for my spreadsheets.

And why did my kids have school today? #beyondpiggybanksandlemonadestands #beyondpiggybanks #financialliteracy #financialeducation

— Liz Frazier (@lfrazierpeck) October 18, 2019

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Did you notice that some people added “National” to Spreadsheet Day? Please don’t do that! Spreadsheet Day is for everyone, not just one country.

I notice that #SpreadsheetDay has become #NationalSpreadsheetDay … which nation? Canadian #DebraDalgleish @ddalgleish started it all, so it just #CanadaSpreadsheetDay?

— Duncan Williamson (@todlad52) October 18, 2019

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Kevin Lehrbass created a beer game for Spreadsheet Day, using Excel.

Just in time for #SpreadsheetDay a beer game in #Excel https://t.co/DcJDAqDK1Q
Beer in Excel…what could be better?@contextures @MrExcel @blarson424 @RougeRiverBrew @refinedfool @amsterdambeer pic.twitter.com/CjnYIKnIhv

— Kevin Lehrbass (@KevinLehrbass) October 18, 2019

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Did spreadsheet skills help you get a job?

Turns out if you know a little on how to use a spreadsheet and can communicate in english you can get a decent job, so it’s hard for me not to celebrate. Happy #SpreadsheetDay everyone!

— Erick R. Novoa (@erjino) October 17, 2019

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The lucky people at Vena Solutions had cake at their celebration!

Celebrating #SpreadsheetDay, Vena style!

More: https://t.co/fnRtngR0D0 #ILoveSpreadsheets #WhyIExcel #MicrosoftExcel pic.twitter.com/CPwn9tUxtk

— Vena Solutions (@venasolutions) October 17, 2019

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There was a big party at Ohio_OBM, but no pictures of cake.

Happy 40th Birthday to the spreadsheet — big party going on here at @Ohio_OBM! #SpreadsheetDay #celebrate #Data https://t.co/MHTiZTyN9N

— Kim at OBM (@OH_OBM_Director) October 17, 2019

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Some people’s celebrations were slightly less enthusiastic.

My colleague @Flibitygibity informed me that today is #SpreadsheetDay so I ceremoniously opened then closed #Excel pic.twitter.com/C4vZBuY3n1

— Dr Brad McKenna (@DrBradMcKenna) October 17, 2019

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And I’m sure you know that the economy runs on spreadsheets.

Our economy runs on Spreadsheets.

Many SaaS companies think their biggest competitor is another SaaS company. In reality, their biggest competitor is often Excel: https://t.co/0Or3YptkSg

Exciting to see startups like @spreadsheetcom in the market. #SpreadsheetDay pic.twitter.com/PpF4Irw4wl

— Ross Simmonds (@TheCoolestCool) October 17, 2019

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Do you remember the dot matrix paper that we had to print spreadsheets on?

I remember the cumbersome computer paper of the seventies and eighties that spreadsheets were printed on. #spreadsheetday #simonmorley #fromtimetotime #jackfinney https://t.co/n5QLW7QloD

— H Keith Lyons (@HKeithLyons) October 17, 2019

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If you want a reminder for next year’s Spreadsheet Day, here’s a formula that you can use.

=TEXT(TODAY(),”mmmm DD”)&” is “&IF(AND(MONTH(TODAY())=10,DAY(TODAY())=17),”Spreadsheet”,”Just Another”)&IF(ISDATE(TODAY()),” Day”,” Not A Day”) #SpreadsheetDay https://t.co/Nz0HXtuPG2

— Jon Orlin (@jonorlin) October 17, 2019

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And finally, a big thanks to everyone who has contributed to building the spreadsheet programs that we love!

Today is #SpreadsheetDay, and since we don’t know where we’d be without programs like #Excel and #GoogleSheets at work, We want to say a big thankyou to those programs, and anyone involved with their development, past or present!#ThankfulThurs pic.twitter.com/Wzuj9dz6OS

— Seek Social Ltd (@SeekSocialTeam) October 17, 2019

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