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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I decided to sell my...
I decided to sell my chest of drawers and nighstands on craigslist and buy only a new chest of drawers at Ikea, but a slimmer one (taller, less footprint). I plugged in the measurements of my old dresser on Excel and compared the different models of Ikea, to see if I was getting roughly the same storage volume. Of course, I also tracked the price/volume for diferent Ikea models - I think that’s the nerdy-obsessive part.
I also use excel to manage the family cell phone plan I have with 3 other friends. This way we can track who is using too many minutes, and share the expenses accordingly.