For yet another Excel abuse see Alte Bücher ziehen in neue Bibliothek um. The article is in German, unfortunately.

Quoting the article:

Für die Mitarbeiter der Spezialfirma bedeutet der Umzug einerseits schwere körperliche Arbeit. Aber sie müssen auch geistig fit sein und genau auf die Signaturen der Bücher achten, damit es am neuen Bibliotheksstandort kein Durcheinander gibt. Wo dort künftig welches Buch stehen wird, das wurde vorab festgelegt in einem virtuellen Regalbuch mithilfe einer Excel-Tabelle mit 75 000 Zeilen, erläutert Sören Kristensen.

So, essentially, someone has created a 75.000 line Excel sheet mapping from book signature to new rack and new position in the rack to help moving a library.

I would not call that abuse of Excel. I've seen much worse things done in Excel, pushing Excel (9x), Windows (9x), and the machine (Pentium class PC with minimal RAM) to their limits.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: Excel or Perl for simple statistics? by afoken
in thread Excel or Perl for simple statistics? by Anonymous Monk

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