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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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 My other half's an accountant...Submitted by Adi (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 10:42pm.
My other half's an accountant and he's received CVs in Excel format before - just goes to show that people who rely on Excel use it for everything. And when I used to work at Amazon I built a series of templates that when populated could be used to squirt out a whole page worth of XML in one go and with a fraction of the effort of using an XML editor! » POSTED IN:
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