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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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 In college, I created an...Submitted by Wes (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 10:34am.
In college, I created an animated spreadsheet that, through iterations, displayed the progression or extinction of a stylized disease epidemic. For fun, I have a spreadsheet to track solving the letter-substitution games like cryptoquip, etc. I've wanted to make one for the sodoku puzzles, haven’t had time to play with that one. » POSTED IN:
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