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Open Thread: How are you using Excel?
Merlin Mann | Aug 22 2006
Yesterday, I mentioned I'd been talking with someone who's looking at interesting things people are doing with Microsoft Excel. I talked to her again yesterday, and with her official okey-dokey, I'll virtually introduce Tralee Pearce (*waves*), a reporter from Toronto's Globe & Mail whom you might remember from a very swell article about the Hipster PDA. So, by request -- and to help Tralee with fleshing out her fun-sounding article -- I hope you all will jump in here: What kind of cool, novel, and non-obvious stuff are you doing with Excel? What's the wildest, most obsessive, most nerdy thing you ever saw someone do with our favorite spreadsheet program? 119 Comments
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 I'm a comic and I...Submitted by Bey (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 4:33am.
I'm a comic and I use Excel to create and track jokes. I divide the columns into Setup, Punchline & Act Out. The fourth and fifth colums, I use a drop down: Clean/dirty; Topic: Sex, Religion, Observation. The Sixth column is another dropdown called "Readiness", I use it to sort jokes that need editing. I'm thinking about adding sound, but it might complicate things as I also keep a copy on google preadsheets, so I can make changes on the fly at my day-job. » POSTED IN:
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