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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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 Believe it or not (I...Submitted by StevenS (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 1:53am.
Believe it or not (I certainly have trouble when I think back) I actually built a series of excel workbooks that - when linked together - simulated a working model of the London Underground with associated maintenance activities. I programmed in a timestamp mechanism that logged maintenance activities in real-time to determine how effective and efficient distributed teams were at dealing with issues. It even generated KPIs! And no, I didn't just do it for fun; I used the system as a team development activity for the 4 maintenance departments of the infrastructure maintenance companies supporting LUL. Geeky enough yet? How about if I said it took me over 2 weeks to built and I only used it twice? Sigh... » POSTED IN:
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