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I am working on a school project and need different Excel applications used
in different industries and if possible names of companies.

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I work in the telecom industry.

My department uses excel for a whole boat load of different things.

From doing equipment pricing/costing, to help with calculations during
engineering.

One of the common functions that I use it for is to take data from disparate
sources and to combine them into a workbook that others can play what-if
scenarios. We take data from the AS/400 (MACPAC), mainframe (engineering
files), UNIX (dumps of customer telephone switches) and combine them into a
single source.

I also take data from systems that others can't access and reformat it into
workbooks (excel is THE language of business--don't let anyone tell you it's
powerpoint <vbg).

And there are a lot of adhoc reports that get generated everyday. Just using
excel's Data|filter|autofilter can make looking for information pretty easy.




Mary C. wrote:

I am working on a school project and need different Excel applications used
in different industries and if possible names of companies.

Thank you.

Mary C.


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Gord Dibben
 
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Mary

I spent many years(now retired) in the Pulp and Paper industry.

Excel was/is used extensively for arranging/manipulating data gathered by
Process Information systems.

Excel is a very good tool for monitoring data to look at trends in the various
processes, both real time and historical.


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:00:54 -0600, Dave Peterson
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I work in the telecom industry.

My department uses excel for a whole boat load of different things.

From doing equipment pricing/costing, to help with calculations during
engineering.

One of the common functions that I use it for is to take data from disparate
sources and to combine them into a workbook that others can play what-if
scenarios. We take data from the AS/400 (MACPAC), mainframe (engineering
files), UNIX (dumps of customer telephone switches) and combine them into a
single source.

I also take data from systems that others can't access and reformat it into
workbooks (excel is THE language of business--don't let anyone tell you it's
powerpoint <vbg).

And there are a lot of adhoc reports that get generated everyday. Just using
excel's Data|filter|autofilter can make looking for information pretty easy.




Mary C. wrote:

I am working on a school project and need different Excel applications used
in different industries and if possible names of companies.

Thank you.

Mary C.


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