Excel
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“I hate Excel but will use it when the business people need me to read a file or three.”
Dr. Psyche Interview, Culinary historian, writer · via Uses This 
“I also end up spending a good bit of time with spreadsheets pivoting tables and sorting and filtering in Excel.”
Trevor Owens Interview, Librarian, historian · via Uses This 
“In a previous lifetime I was in project management, so I'm pretty confident with Excel for my bookkeeping.”
Robyn Lees-West Interview, Textile taxidermist · via Uses This 
“I probably use Excel the most.”
Elizabeth Hargrave Interview, Board game designer · via Uses This 
“I also use Excel a lot to handle order spreadsheets.”
Isaac Childres Interview, Owner and designer, Cephalofair Games · via Uses This 
“I have to use the shit out of Excel for royalties.”
Maggie Vail Interview, Executive director (CASH Music), musician (Hurry Up) · via Uses This 
“I try to avoid Microsoft products whenever possible because I find them bloated and not particularly nice to use, but I've not found another spreadsheet solution that works as well as Excel, so that's a necessary evil.”
Louisa Heinrich Interview, Designer, founder (Superhuman Limited) · via Uses This 
“That machine allowed me to work with the highly complex Excel spreadsheets that compile, sort, analyze and graph my 25 years of atmospheric measurements (ozone layer, solar UV, photosynthetic radiation, haze, total water vapor and daily sun and sky photos).”
Forrest M. Mims III Interview, Freelance writer, photographer, science consultant · via Uses This 
“Excel rules legitimately everything around me.”
Rachel Adams Interview, Writer, recipe developer, co-founder of Dinner was Delicious · via Uses This 
“Most all of my prototyping takes place in Microsoft Excel.”
Chris Darden Interview, Board game designer (Dungeon Roll) · via Uses This 
“I work with lots of spreadsheets in an office environment, so Excel is a necessity.”
Chris Ilias Interview, Chef at Sweet Basil, Colorado · via Uses This 
“My middle 30" is my primary workspace for programming, Excel drudgery and any other tasks.”
Lou Montulli Interview, Rabble-rouser, software developer (Lynx, Netscape) · via Uses This 
“I'm not a big fan of fitting letters and numbers into tiny cells, but Excel is quite useful for working with budgets.”
Keith Ehrlich Interview, Filmmaker (Made by Hand) · via Uses This 
“I occasionally use Excel in case I need to do pivot tables.”
Horace Dediu Interview, Writer, podcaster (Asymco, The Critical Path) · via Uses This 
“I tend to build rough frameworks of my planning in MS Excel but as soon as I can I just migrate everything into Hansoft.”
Martijn Van Der Meulen Interview, Creative Producer (Sony Computer Entertainment) · via Uses This 
“Excel is the only one of its components I spend any time working in, usually when collating or cleaning data.”
Kieran Healy Interview, Sociologist · via Uses This 
“With tabular data I sometimes open something first in Excel to get a sense of the dimensions and categories, then drop into code to actually do any transformations I need.”
Matthew Mckeon Interview, Developer (IBM Visual Communication Lab) · via Uses This 
“I also use Microsoft Excel to track the business side of poetry - poems and manuscripts submitted on what date to which magazines/presses/agents.”
Sue Allspaw Interview, Poet, information security analyst · via Uses This
