What is the strangest Excel spreadsheet you have seen?
The examples we are given are usually for tracking inventory or expenditure. Have you any more unusual examples of how Excel spreadsheets have been used?
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I’ve used them to map dollhouses, and to create level maps for computer games, for population models, economic models, experience models, for military simulation scenario data, to make maps of game worlds I was exploring, to translate data files and bank statements, and to read and process various sorts of CSV files.
Well, actually, I stopped using Excel itself a long time ago, around the time Microsoft started using symbols rather than text for controls in MS Office, and when they started wanting you to subscribe to Office. I have used Open Office or Libre Office instead.
There’s one artist who’s using it to create illustrations.
I knew of one woman who plotted her periods on them and the different guys she slept with on another axis, and graphed them.
I had one for calculating alcohol% in home brewing beer.
Excel is, IMO, the most flexible of all the Windows programs, except, maybe, for Access which I’ve never learned.
Since you gave the all clear @LuckyGuy, I am watching the video. And yes….creating spreadsheets really is relaxing for me! Especially when I’m trying to figure out how to do something I’ve never done before.
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