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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 wrote a VBA program...Submitted by Micah (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 2:56am.
I wrote a VBA program in Excel to cheat at TextTwist on Yahoo. I found lists of 4, 5, 6 and 7-letter words and then used a permutation algorithm to generate all possible combinations of the original letters the game gives at the beginning of a round which I then looked up against the 4 lists. This was beneficial for me as it made the game less interesting and therefore much less of a timesink. » POSTED IN:
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