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Open Thread: How are you using Excel?

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?

PaulW's picture

Man, I'm way behind here....

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? :)

 
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