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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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File this one under the...Submitted by jen (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 1:47pm.
File this one under the nerdy/obsessive category: I use Excel to plan my monthly downloads from eMusic -- http://emusic.com eMusic (for those who don't know) is an online retailer who sells music on a subscription basis. I have the basic plan that allows me to download 40 songs per month. So, I use Excel to keep track of all the albums and EPs (plus individual songs) that I want to download and the number of songs on each. Then I run through the list each month and use Excel to figure out how many songs I would use up by downloading various combinations of albums, EPs and singles. » POSTED IN:
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