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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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Man, I'm way behind here....Submitted by PaulW (not verified) on August 24, 2006 - 3:30am.
Man, I'm way behind here. I just use Excel (actually, OpenOffice Calc) to create an integrated Gantt chart and to-do list. And a weekly timetable template which I print and fill in by hand (way more useful than the Gantt chart, and integrates flawlessly with my low-rent pen+paper GTD system thing) One comment: Chris Hayes and TommyW (guys way up at the top somewhere) - I don't believe you managed what you say you did. Maybe you should make your sheets publicly available as proof before you share the geek crown.... Umm, pretty please? :) » POSTED IN:
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