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  • 1.  What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 08-29-2022 16:56
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    Hey everyone! My name is Jayne, and I'm on the Customer Success team here at Vena.


    For me, I built a custom fantasy league template for my favourite reality TV show, Big Brother, which I'm the commissioner of. I used Excel to automate the scoring system and get my friends and colleagues involved! I've attached it to this post if you'd like to take a look! Who do you think is going to win this season?!


    How does everyone else use Excel outside of work? Let's see some of yours!



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    Jayne Ingram
    CSM
    Vena Solutions
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  • 2.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Posted 08-29-2022 17:18
    I love this, Jayne!! Can't say I'm as big of a Big Brother fan as you, but this would be handy if I were to ever do this for my guilty pleasure show, Bachelor in Paradise!

    As for my nerdy Excel use, I used it to track all the money I've spent on my adopted greyhound! I was really good about tracking all of his expenses for the first two years, but ended up falling off the wagon. But I do remember spending an embarrassing amount on dog collars, bandanas, and clothes for him! So instead of my TobyExpense.xlsx file (and another weird Toby Excel I had... long story short, Toby came home with hookworms and I tracked all of his "bio breaks" 😂), here's a SuperCuteTobyPic.jpg instead 😉

    Can't wait to see everyone else's responses!

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    Irene Tang
    Community Marketing Manager
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  • 3.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 08-30-2022 16:57
    I've been using Excel to track and analyze the books I've read since early 2020.

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    Jimmy Huynh
    Content Marketing Specialist
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  • 4.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 09-01-2022 11:41
    I didn't create this one but being a Fine Arts major before entering the wild world of marketing I here for all the Excel art ;)

    A drawing of the Mona Lisa in Excel


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    Sarah Carter
    Marketing
    Vena Solutions
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  • 5.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 11-29-2022 14:33

    Love the Excel art Sarah!

    I'm not super artistic but I remember the first time I saw someone do this I was impressed even though it was just 8bit.



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    Colton Gray
    Business Development Team Lead
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  • 6.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 09-01-2022 13:28
    Team #ExcelWedding over here! ​​I used 10+ sheets to plan and execute my wedding that was in July – budget, guest menu selections and dietary preferences, songs, photographer shot list, venue search pros and cons... the list goes on!

    My husband is a fellow #ExcelNerd and we were keen to show each other our favourite formulas and formatting tricks 🤓​​

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    Jennifer Piggott
    Campaign Manager
    Vena Solutions
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  • 7.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 11-28-2022 14:15

    What a great question! LOVE the BB tracker (what a wild season too!)

    - As a foodie, I use it to track restaurants I've been to by dish, rating and price range, etc. and have a separate one for recipes with time / effort,   

    - Also heavily used it for wedding planning #ExcelWedding for the win!

    - ​Set up a wellness habit tracker for our internal team

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    Tatiana M
    Vena Solutions
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  • 8.  RE: What are some fun, nerdy ways you use Excel in your personal life?

    Venanite
    Posted 11-29-2022 15:04

    Jayne - Love the BB tracker idea!!

    Personally, I use it to monitor my expenses (boring, I know) as well as keeping a log of all my friends/families/loved ones birthdays and I add to it every time I find out about a new birthday. I set calendar reminders at the start of every year, but needed to have a single source of truth ( ;) ) that I knew wouldn't delete randomly!! Highly recommend!

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    KASH Palkowski
    BDR
    Vena Solutions
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