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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 surprised no one else...Submitted by Spencer (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 7:04am.
I'm surprised no one else does this. When I host meals, I type the ingredients from each recipe in Excel so that it serves as my shopping list, but I list the quantities in a separate column from the ingredients, dividing the quantities by the number of servings the recipes each say they make. Then I use another column to multiply the quantities by how many guests I am expecting. Voila, a shopping list based on how much I actually need to cook. And I can save it to modify it for future meals with more or fewer guests. » POSTED IN:
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