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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've made a niche for...Submitted by Diffus (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 6:28am.
I've made a niche for myself at three employers by printing reports from the companies' accounting software to ASCII text files. then writing VBA routines to import the data and manipulate it into reports. Some of the reports had been previously prepared by manually reentering data from the accounting software's reports, and some were new ways to look at the date (profitability by customer, for example). What we need is a place where all these nifty workbooks can be uploaded so people can download them and check them out. » POSTED IN:
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