Hi Dave ~
Actually it came from the Excel Help menu and if I look closely it could
very well relate to how you descibed it. I was looking for assistance on
fomulas and this is an example:
....
=OR(A5<"Sprockets",A6 = "Widgets") Is A5 not equal to "Sprockets" or A6
equal to "Widgets"? (TRUE)

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Not excel specific, but I've heard lots of teachers/trainers use widgets in
their examples.

A team can make x number of widgets per hour and they work 18 hours. How many
widgets did they make?

It's not important to the instructor what the object actually is. It's just a
placeholder to help learn math (or excel or whatever).

Any chance that's where you've heard it?

Oski wrote:

What does that mean in relation to excel??

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Dave Peterson