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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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 Basic tip? Hmmmm... I guess,...Submitted by carikate (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 8:46am.
Basic tip? Hmmmm... I guess, that excel isn't just good for parsing numbers and words in various methods -- if you set the line height and width to be the same, you use excel for many things that you'd want graph paper for. I've used it to chart knitting patterns, many times. You could also use it to create -- or store -- crosswords, I would think... » POSTED IN:
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