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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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 "What’s the wildest, most obsessive,...Submitted by Rex (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 7:29am.
"What’s the wildest, most obsessive, most nerdy thing you ever saw someone do with our favorite spreadsheet program?" Uhm, this friend of mine (yeah, that's the ticket, a friend of mine!) once wrote a product configurator in excel for a quite complex storage product. After entering a few basic configuration choices it would figure out how many racks were required, how many and what size cables were needed, how much cooling, etc. All of that was pretty straightforward. The amazing thing was that it also drew a picture of the resulting system. The VBA to do all the drawing, etc. ended up being this pile of mostly unmaintainable code, but it worked fairly well. » POSTED IN:
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