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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 Neoffice calc (open...Submitted by Ed (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 3:34am.
I use Neoffice calc (open source Excel near-enough-alike) to provide feedback for my current weight loss project. I've got a set of Tanita body-fat monitoring scales and plot weekly weight and body fat measurements against projections based on the initial readings. I have concluded that the body fat monitor part is not very responsive because although my weight has gradually fallen over the past couple of months my estimated body fat levels have not fallen in line (I've been sensible so any weight loss is almost certainly fat). » POSTED IN:
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