Ah-HA!

I knew it.

I've had a blog post draft kicking around for a while entitled "The spreadsheet people are among us." Basically, I believe that there are millions of people using Excel to capture their findings when researching complex purchase decisions, but we're all too ashamed to fess up to our anal retentiveness to talk about it publicly. And now there's proof!

I recently upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 (better late than never...). Upon firing up the "new" Excel, I noticed this:

Apparently, Microsoft's research revealed that so many people were using Excel to gather information for making complex decisions that they put the official anal-retentive cell formatting colour scheme right smack in the middle of the main, default toolbar/ribbon.

Having used ChoiceBot for over a year now, I can't imagine using an app that doesn't actually do anything with my colour-coding, though. That would be kind of like using a pen and graph paper instead of a spreadsheet program to work on a bunch of numbers.

Irony... get it?