{"id":209,"date":"2012-01-14T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/feeding-your-monster-spreadsheets\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:03:57","slug":"feeding-your-monster-spreadsheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/feeding-your-monster-spreadsheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Your Monster Spreadsheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"d942c2121bfbd137a3b44056a000f09c\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Top -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9531091850463532\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"6574318169\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002NZK5TG\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=exceltheatre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002NZK5TG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=B002NZK5TG&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=exceltheatre-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px; border-style: none !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=exceltheatre-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002NZK5TG\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>How often has this happened to you? You started out with a simple Excel spreadsheet, to track one or two key items. Before long, that spreadsheet has turned into a monster \u2013 dozens of columns (or more!), and you&#8217;re constantly entering data.<\/p>\n<p>Those spreadsheets remind me of Audrey, the hungry plant in <a title=\"Little Shop of Horrors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002NZK5TG\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=exceltheatre-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002NZK5TG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Shop of Horrors<\/a>. You can almost hear your spreadsheets shouting, &#8220;Feed me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vail Daily columnist, Richard Carnes, describes his year-long experiment with a &#8220;simple spreadsheet&#8221; that grew much bigger than he had originally planned. You can read about his food tracking spreadsheet here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vail Daily columnist Richard Carnes: A spreadsheet for life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/article\/20120104\/EDITS\/120109968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vail Daily columnist Richard Carnes: A spreadsheet for life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At least he knew when to quit!<\/p>\n<p>_________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monster01b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-728\" src=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monster01b.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding Your Monster Spreadsheets\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monster01b.jpg 450w, https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/monster01b-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often has this happened to you? You started out with a simple Excel spreadsheet, to track one or two key items. Before long, that spreadsheet has turned into a monster \u2013 dozens of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spreadsheet-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadsheet-day.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}