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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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 When I was a schoolteacher,...Submitted by Matthew (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 9:01am.
When I was a schoolteacher, I used Excel to track my students' mastery of specific objectives. I could not only see at a glance whether my students were demonstrating competence in, say, double-digit addition, I could tailor assignments for specific students and print out progress reports with a single click. Now that I have a one-man consulting business, I use Excel for the bread-and-butter accounting. The only real flourish is a worksheet I've set up to calculate my current and estimated annual taxes as my income and expenses change. This way, I can always feel confident that I'm setting aside enough for Uncle Sam. » POSTED IN:
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