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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 used Excel in college...Submitted by Justin Bajema (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 8:03am.
I used Excel in college to design a somewhat complex mechanical linkage for a class project. I had all the links on a graph and then used a macro to animate the graph so that I could see the linkage in motion and see if there would be any interferance problems. The spreadsheet actually turned out to be very useful when we were actually building the linkage. The length of one link was off, so I was able to use the spreadsheet to see how that would impact the entire linkage and how to adjust the other links so that the linkage would perform as intended. » POSTED IN:
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