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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 wrote a time sheet...Submitted by John Phillips (not verified) on August 25, 2006 - 4:37am.
I wrote a time sheet calculator program in Excel. Every employee had their own virtual cards, and I would just enter the hours. It computed hours workd, including overtime. Seems simple enough, but I remember figuring out overtime was a bear. The logic is simple enough, but getting Excel to realize what a week was, or more than 12 hours a day, was tough. » POSTED IN:
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