Anything cool you have done with excel?
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At one point I used it for a dirt simple analysis on where I should go for vacation. Pulled up a list of ~30 Marriott resort properties and had columns for points cost, round trip flight cost, and hotel rating. Did a shaded red/green color coding across the criteria and funneled the list down to three properties which were dark green across the board.
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I wouldn't really call it "cool" per se, but in my 20s I built a very detailed multivariate retirement projection spreadsheet.
If memory serves, I modeled geo pay differential, inflation, investment growth rate, comp growth rate, social security, pension projection, HSA, family expenses, tax rates, and a few other data points I'm probably forgetting.
I had it set up so I would just update a few data points each month (e.g. family expenses, comp, investment rate, and a few others) on the first tab and it would spit out retirement scenarios based on year of retirement.
Alas, this was before the days of OneDrive and stuff, so it was lost when that computer but the dust and I never rebuilt the spreadsheet.
And here I am, still trying to figure out how to freeze panes without fcking up the whole sheet 🤷🏻♀️
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