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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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 I use OpenOffice, but whatever......Submitted by korinthe (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 2:39am.
I use OpenOffice, but whatever... for event planning (our wedding, a retirement party) and tracking the budget and investments. Oh, and trip planning. I used to use it for GTD-style context list management, but switched to paper a few months back. I also use it to lay out and print custom grids for tracking time/projects. Not very sexy I know :) And I have seen Excel used to model satellite payload and terminal resources in a future constellation deployment. I also saw the guy who was doing it beat his brains out trying to make it work on both Excel for Windows and Excel for Macs. All because one manager uses a Mac (the military just uses PCs). As soon as the project was done the developer quit and went to a startup. » POSTED IN:
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