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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 use it for a...Submitted by Jenjen (not verified) on August 24, 2006 - 2:28am.
I use it for a lot of shopping comparisons - 1 column per website, etc. - and also used it for wedding finance planning. I also have a grid template for creating crossword puzzles and ploting bead weaving patterns. Oh, and I keep a list of gifts I plan to buy for the holidays by person, and then I update it after the stuff is bought to be able to look back on, so I don't buy someone the same book twice (has happened in the past) » POSTED IN:
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