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Open Thread: How are you using Excel?

Submitted by Merlin on August 22, 2006 - 2:10am.

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?

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My other half's an accountant...

Submitted by Adi (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 9:42pm.

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!