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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 once spent several days...Submitted by Dennis (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 10:50am.
I once spent several days creating an excelsheet that solves sudoku puzzles.... wonder how's that going to bring us closer to world peace huh. It worked, but as I wanted to be able to solve the very diffucult sudokus (the ones with four extra squares within the standard nine that also should be filled out by using every number once) I ended up with a 20x30 feet matrix :-) But it works. At this moment I run a soccer prediction game for a group of friends that stretches across the entire soccer season. Noticed the limitations of excel: it only has about 400 columns.... yes I'm a nerd. Dennis » POSTED IN:
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