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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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 While working for a financial...Submitted by Catherine Mulbrandon (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 10:44am.
While working for a financial consulting company 6 years ago, I designed an intraweb site to track the production of client reports, (data collection, proofing, printing of each report etc...). The thing is I wasn't a web developer but I knew Excel very well. So I mocked up the interface for the web pages in Excel spreadsheets. Since these pages were often data intensive, with many tables, this turned out to be very practical. If you are interested, I have posted an example of one of these pages here: http://mulbrandon.com/control_intraweb/images/AnalystHP.gif When I finally showed the project manager printouts of these designs she assumed they were actual web pages. » POSTED IN:
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