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   16 July 2005, terribly early in the morning

The infamous US 'no-fly' list is an excel file? You've got to be joking. People have to work to be this incompetent.

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  1. That has to be the most common usage of Excel: making lists!

  2. It is – Joel says:

    When we were designing Excel 5.0, the first major release to use serious activity-based planning, we only had to watch about five customers using the product before we realized that an enormous number of people just use Excel to keep lists. They are not entering any formulas or doing any calculation at all! We hadn’t even considered this before. Keeping lists turned out to be far more popular than any other activity with Excel.

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