Ok. This is quick and short.
What is the most weird, unusual, out of the world thing you have used excel for?
I will go first.
- I have used excel to generate and clean a list of tags for this blog.
- I have used excel to keep track of which movies I have seen in the IMDb Top 250 list.
- I have used excel to simulate monopoly board game, just so I can play it better than my wife 😉
- I wrote a small macro to send updates to twitter.
- I used excel to create stunning screen mockups and wowed my managers and clients.
While none of the above are batshit crazy, they are unusual and opened new avenues for exploration and learning for me.
What about you?
What unusual things you have done using excel? Share using comments. I am all ears.
2 Responses to “Celebrating the Lookup Formulas – VLOOKUP Week @ Chandoo.org”
How did you arrive or formula when you ask me who made more sales Jackie or Jamie?? I could not figure the formula out yet??
@Frank
You need to sum up the sales for Jackie and compare them to the sales of Jamie over the same period.
The practical parts depends on how and what data you have and how it is arranged.
But it will either involve a Sum, Sumif, Sumifs or Sumproduct to accummulate the sales for each within a specified date range.