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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, like 50% of the...Submitted by Declan (not verified) on August 29, 2006 - 5:23am.
I, like 50% of the western world, recently got addicted to Sudoku. The logic of stepping through the solutions fascinated me and seemed like an interesting challenge to take on in Excel. So, using VBA, I build a Sudoku solver in Excel. Its gone through a few iterations since I started as I continually try to improve performance. Now, once the puzzle has been entered it takes less than a second for excel to solve it - which I think is kind of cool. » POSTED IN:
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