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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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![]() A pretty basic use of...Submitted by meghan (not verified) on August 31, 2006 - 6:00am.
A pretty basic use of Excel was timing early contractions when I was in labor. Start, finish, quick formula to determine how long they lasted and how long in between each, before we left for the hospital. It's still on the desktop of the computer we were using (now 1.5 years later) and is a sweet, albeit geeky, memento for us. » POSTED IN:
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