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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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 My husband keeps track of...Submitted by Krissa (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 3:47pm.
My husband keeps track of all of the Veronica Mars episodes TiVo has recorded for him on his Excel spreadsheet. I thought that was pretty darn geeky. But I recently found that he's done something even nerdier than that. He used Excel to help him rank and prioritize all of the Twilight Zone disks on the basis of things like how many good episodes are on each disk, which ones have "classic" episodes, best-known actors, etc. The purpose was to help him put them in the most ideal order in his Netflix queue. Geek me out the door. » POSTED IN:
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