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Re:What is your pick for the most mind bogglingly incredible... by 27182818284 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:57PM (#13878747)
Excel must be the closest thing to a swiss-army-knife piece of software. You find it everywhere from your Church choir's organization to statistics classes to DnD organization.

It opens versions of files from twenty years ago just fine today.

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Re:What is your pick for the most mind bogglingly incredible... by cm2012 on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @07:35PM (#13880964)
Excel is the most useful software in business, period.
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Re:What is your pick for the most mind bogglingly incredible... by sova on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:02AM (#13882661)
Did you catch the demonstration from a while back of using Excel to do 3D drawing _in_ excel? Here's a video showing this awesome and rather absurd ability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV6uiZj0FHM

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