Microsoft Excel is one of the most versatile and user friendly programs around. It’s the Swiss Army Knife of computer software. Even though Excel was originally designed for use in the business world, helping people easily manage data of all forms, some Excel jocks also use it for a variety of other tasks, many you might think are quite unusual. From designing roller coaster, to playing video games, to organization, Excel can do it all. Click through to see 20 of the most unique uses of Excel that you might not have thought of.

1. Nick Weisenberger
September 3rd, 2014
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2. Microsoft Excel is one of the most versatile and user friendly programs around.
Listed are 20 of the most unique uses of Excel that you might not have thought of.

3. This just might be the best (or most fun) application: Excel as a video game!
Arena.xlsm is a fantasy role playing game created entirely with VBA macros within Excel.

4. Some people take Excel programming to the extreme. One such example is using Microsoft Excel as a 3D graphics engine.

5. Want to manage your weight loss? Excel can easily help you add a weight goal and track your progress toward achieving it.

6. With some intermediate knowledge of Visual Basic, you can easily make this game in Excel called Conway’s game of life.

7. Are you trying to learn a subject? By creating a ‘bank’ of questions on one worksheet, you can instruct Excel to quiz you.

8. Moving even further into the Excel gaming realm, you could even build board games like Monopoly.

9. Are you building a website, designing a store, or building a home? Use Excel to build a mock-up of what you want it to look like.

10. Worried that your mother-in-law is going to be sitting next to her least favorite cousin? This won’t be a problem if you plan your wedding in Excel.

11. If you’re writing non-fiction and going to have the same style and format of pages, you can begin writing your book inside of Microsoft Excel.

12. Did you know that Excel could be used to make incredible paintings? Visit YouTube and see some of these masters in action.

13. Not interested in wasting time adding up scores during your heated Scrabble game? Build a scoring chart in Excel.

14. If you’re a wine connoisseur, Excel can help you create a quick database of wine listings.

15. Excel can be used to help you create a website. This is how I created the Observation Wheel Directory to track the world’s largest Ferris wheels.

16. If you are interested in tracking your home energy use, Excel will allow you to fully understand your electricity costs and work to reduce them over time.

17. That's right, someone actually sat down and made Pac-man run in Excel (Pacelman)
All actions are created by changing the fill color of each cell in the spreadsheet.

18. You can use physics formulas to design a roller coaster. This spreadsheet contains 8500 rows by 50 columns of data!

19. Apartment Comparison is another one of my custom spreadsheet creations to help solve a recurring problem – finding the right apartment.

20. Horseshoe League is probably the most unique sports related template out of all the ones I've worked on or created. Horseshoes can be an individual or team sport, similar to bowling.

21. Excel is great for keeping To-Do lists organized. One unique one I personally created was the newborn checklist for new parents.

22. Some pilots have started using Excel to provide training for pilots around the world on planes ranging from regional jets to Boeing 747s.

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