Microsoft Excel without math: Five ways writers can use spreadsheets

by Mark Tosczak on August 11, 2008 · 0 comments

in Writing

If you’re a writer (by which I mean that some major part of your personal or professional life involves putting words together), you probably spend a lot of time in a word processing program such as Microsoft Word.

If you’re like a lot of writers I know, you’re also probably somewhat math-averse, and as a result you probably stay away from spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. Well, you shouldn’t.

Excel is a powerful tool for all sorts of mathematical and quantitative tasks, but you can do a lot more with it than number crunching. Thanks to Excel’s power to sort and filter, it can be a very powerful tool for writers and editors.

Here are some ways you can use Excel:

  1. Record daily word counts.
  2. Write a list of ideas (for articles, blog posts, etc.).
  3. Keep track of your to-do list.
  4. Create an editorial calendar.
  5. Keep track of project tasks and their statuses.

So, how do you use spreadsheets?

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