As usual, there are plenty of Twitters about people’s love/hate relationship with Excel. But what are they using Excel to do? Some pretty interesting things, by the sound of it. And sometimes the Twitters reveal a little too much information about their use of Excel.

The list of happy hours seems like a productive use of Excel though. Do you use Excel for anything unusual?

Excel Uses and Misuses

• Detailed schedules on official 2008 Olympic games site are presented in MS Excel files. http://en.beijing2008.cn/schedule/
• first box getting packed for the move. I’m using your Excel spreadsheet method for keeping up with boxes
• creating a detailed excel file containing my customers and their instructions.
• Going to try and do an excel based flight planner this time.
• is building excel model for analytics case competition
• just got emailed an excel spreadsheet with all happy hours in sf!
• For vacation I suggested we make packing lists in an Excel workbook with a summary sheet split into categories. Does that make me a nerd?
• there are 18 ways to get TV for three people. and that’s just from Dish. I need Excel for this decision. what exciting times we live in.
• What do you use to keep track of candidates you have sourced? We have an excel spreadsheet which is not working well! HELP!
• Wondering why I’m staring at an Excel spreadsheet filled with hydraulic gradients and slope failure analysis at 10:45pm…
• Working on our latest project - the massive 800CD track-by-track Excel database.
• writing an excel add-in to visualise the data our websites use.
• someone at my job used excel to create a web page. Try looking at that in notepad!
• wait til I show you my weekly meal plans and Excel workbook grocery lists (laid out in the order of the store!) sexy!
• if you want a job do not send me your resume as an excel file, or docbook. XLS is not an acceptable format for documents, EVER
• I love it when I get to do *my* work while being paid to do *another* job. = typing up Casting Director addresses in Excel spreadsheet.

Thanks for Sharing

• “Hi! Do you want to help me learn Microsoft Excel? It’s a key part of my job, I don’t know it and I was hired anyway! Awesome!”
• Doing overtime with Microsoft Excel because I said I knew how to use excel when really I don’t.
• Excel stole my mathematical ability. It didn’t gain much.
• If you have a real complicated looking excel sheet on your desktop, it really looks like you’re working hard.
• Listening to Dizzy Gillespie and working in Excel, I feel the two cancel each other out

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