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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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 Nerdiness: I track scrabble scores for...Submitted by Dizzy (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 2:03pm.
Nerdiness: I track scrabble scores for family games on Excel. During the game it's convenient because you can easily see the total and the average points per move and a graphical trend of points per person as the game has progressed. With wireless in the house we can then alt+tab to the official scrabble dictionary for challenges. After the game we can then compare the trends to previous games. I also used it to count calories and track my weight, for which it worked wonders. Although, I was a skinny dude, so I used to ensure my weight was going UP as planned. There were clear correlations in the slope of my weight plot and days when I slacked off in terms of calories. » POSTED IN:
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