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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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 My old roommate, who is...Submitted by aFlex (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 5:01am.
My old roommate, who is in the process of renovating his house, put every item he bought on every Home Depot receipt into an Excel file to track all of his expenditures. This house is serious work too. It's completely gutted. He doesn't have a single wall in the entire house. It's a shell. And he's living in it while he's working on it. It took him months to enter a years worth of purchases. And then his hard drive crashed and lost everything. Twice. » POSTED IN:
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