Thursday, June 7, 2007

Excel Fun

My boss showed me a very cool add-in for Excel the other day. It's called ASAP Utilities (http://www.asap-utilities.com/download-asap-utilities.php) and automates or simplifies all sorts of time-consuming activities in excel. For example, it can unhide all the hidden sheets at once, apply a formula to a group of cells, reset excel's last cell, sort according to five categories instead of just three, delete all hidden rows and columns, and lots and lots of other things (most of which I haven't figured out yet).

Most of that paragraph doesn't interest the majority of you but there is one other thing about it. It has this part where you can launch Funny error messages.
These are a few of the ones that made me laugh:
  • Error: Change in Earth’s Rotational Speed
  • Government Employee detected. Switching to sleep mode.
  • It was OK before you touched it. (Too bad you can't copy and paste these into files.)
  • Firewall needs cooling.
  • Your girlfriend is pregnant.
    (A)bort (R)etry (I)gnore (Probably shouldn't, but this one makes me laugh out loud)
  • Multitasking attempted. System confused.
  • Dynamic linking error. Your mistake is now in every file. (feels like a real error too often)
  • Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.
  • Press any key to continue and any other key to quit.

And then there are some I don't get but they must be funny:
  • You've got the flue! (what's flue?)
  • Hidden Windows secret: add BUGS=OFF to your CONFIG.SYS

Oh yeah, and we're moving to Cedar City instead of St. George. Long story but the gist is that Chris was offered a position that better fits his career goals and it didn't matter to the people down there because it's all within the same organization so he didn't offend anyone by taking this other one. Chris is going to be based out of Valley View Medical Center now and I will have a much shorter commute. Anyone is still welcome to come visit! Crossing our fingers we should have a bedroom and bathroom just for guests. No more one bedrooms!

1 comment:

KG said...

Sweet!!!We can drop the kids off at your place and go to Vegas!!!!