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Got Excel?
Ah, tax time, what a joy. Wifey is a tax analyst (not cpa) and this leads to many fun discussions on my write offs etc. What is cool is she is an Excel wiz and anything I need formatted in a sheet she does a nice job. As I make my way from web dev to sysadmin I thought I would start tracking in Excel. What I am interested in is seeing if anyone needs cool Excel stuff done. My offer is to do it for free and I get the benefit of your experience and we both get nice presentable (as in I need a business loan) admin tools.
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I personally don't but you might want to give some examples...I'm having a hard time visualizing what "cool Excel stuff" is. I know you can do pretty much anything with it if you write VB code.
I've heard the complaint that Excel macros/VB/etc. tends to break moving from major version to version though I don't know how true that is.
To the cloud!
AKA Office 365
http://www.geek.com/games/turn-your-excel-spreadsheet-into-an-rpg-with-arena-xlsm-1544051/
Not by me, but still cool.
Google Drive ftw
I don't have any examples... kinda the point. But if you want to know her area of expertise, her job is to audit REMICs. If using excel is a bad way to go, then thanks for your input. In my previous life I worked as a IT field tech for a fortune 50 telecom for 8 years and was a Microsoft contractor at Boeing before that. I had to track a lot of stuff and I relied on excel, because most of the in-house tools sucked and wasted time.
One example I can give that was a real time saver in the DC was hooking a point of sale scanner to my laptop for asset management. All that info was placed into excel. I want to track IP ranges, billing, performance, attacks... everything.
That is cool... next time I need to change the subject with wifey I will point her this way.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php
lol
Ah, the story of modern IT. Agility in the field vs. central IT. A never-ending war :-)
Combine that with endless rounds of corporate downsizing and you are several rings deep into the inferno. It was a great job for the most part, I was second shift, had an unmarked corp van with permission to keep the surfboard inside. I surfed in the morning, then worked, my lunch time was during happy hour... but the best was getting to do all the projects because I was the night guy. I got exposed to a little bit of everything. Doing work for the "men in black" tracking stolen shipments of cell phones, etc.