Spreadsheets

[Relena Peacecraft]

In a valiant effort to nerdify this place even more than it may already be, let's talk spreadsheets! No, I'm not talking about some strange thing you do on your bed. I'm talking about things like OpenOffice/LibreOffice Calc, Microsoft Excel, or (maybe in 1992) Lotus 1-2-3.

Personally, I find that spreadsheets are an integral part of my life, and it'd be difficult to do without them. Even as I speak right now, I have six of them open, and that's probably lower than usual because I recently restarted LibreOffice Calc.

Most of mine are actually simple. I rarely need to do anything complicated with formulas, but I certainly do when whatever I'm doing calls for it.

Here's a sampling of some of the things I keep track of or calculate with my spreadsheets: Numerous personal financial things, cleaning schedules, TV series and movies, my weight (I've weighed myself almost every day for over four years), various trackers when playing games (like who has mastered each esper in FF6), automotive repairs and parts, my tire tread depth history, and a whole bunch of other things I have archived but am not using at the moment.

So, does anyone else completely go overboard in their use of spreadsheets?

[CimminyCricket]

I use spreadsheets to correct BoB's refusal to alphabetize his #eoff stats.

[Formalhaut]

BoB has probably came in his pants now at the very mention of this thread's existence.

[Quindiana Jones]

I wish I used spreadsheets more often, but I'm just too lazy.

[Pumpkin]

I use spreadsheets a lot

[Jiro]

I love spreadsheets but I don't tend to use them as much as I would like. More of a Word guy, unfortunately.

[Værn]

I use spreadsheets (OpenOffice) for things like =INT((RAND()*6)+1), =(SUM(A1: D1))-(MIN(A1: D1)), and =INT((E1-10)/2). (Had to add spaces to prevent smiles from disrupting my math.)
And if you know what those formulas are for, then you're probably a huge nerd :P

[Rantz]

I don't use spreadsheets all that often. For the most part I prefer to use text documents for at least the more list-like things you mention in the first post. There's a Table Editor plugin for Sublime I'm trying out that seems to work okay for a nice and lightweight way to structure things into tables, too. I just find most spreadsheet editors too bulky to keep constantly open like that, so they only tend to get used when I need them for something my text editor can't do.

[Loony BoB]

oh hi

[Shlup]

The spreadsheet I made to keep track of my Etsy store's finances is nothing short of a work of art.

[Loony BoB]

[Aulayna]

This thread makes me realise I haven't updated my budgetting spreadsheet in a few days... and now I'm itching to change it but can't for another few hours until it's my lunchbreak. Ahhh.

[Parker]

i bet chris wishes he knew the secrets of dude_access.xls


haha get it its because he's gay and desperate

[Mindflare]

Excel pixel art is cool, I guess?

[Denmark]

fm12 fcum second attempt.xlsx

i use Excel spreadsheets rarely. I have no use for them at work (or any other spreadsheet program). I occasionally use Excel at home to track stuff in video games, but only when I have multiple lists and I'd like to see them side-by-side (example is collecting items in Metroid Prime).

most of the time for just notes, I use notepad++.