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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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Fess up! You're really just...Submitted by TimK (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 9:54am.
Fess up! You're really just going to hire some pretty models to read these various comments in a catchy apple-esque ad campaign for MS Excel. Being a database nerd, I beg Tralee to encourage proper use of Excel when working with data. Namely, use the first row for column headers, not a page title. Don't make us database nerds work to hard to find the data when your spreadsheet reaches the point where it needs to be a database. Use a text box from the drawing tools if you need a title up there at top. » POSTED IN:
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