One of the members put a very good question to me at the last meeting.   "We've see a lot of tools and commands you can do in Excel, but what can you USE Excel FOR?"  

Our mission says:  ... each SIG meeting will be designed around starting and finishing a problem within the meeting. ...  We have not done this lately; time to return.

Introducing the "One Hour App": a section of the meeting where we build a simple, real world application from scratch. starting with some basics.

I need some ideas from members for projects that are 
     a) well defined, 
     b) have non-proprietary data that can be published 
     c) can be made workable in 60 minutes, and
     d) are interesting, non-trivial, real-world problems.

Ideas that I am kicking around are:

	Investing in Stock or Funds:  If I follow a rule for when to get in and when to get out, how well would that have worked over the last 3 years?
	Time Sheets: to track time by Project, Task, and Person.   Consolidate by Project and Client.   Link to related documents.
	Surveys:  Create an Excel based questionnaire form.    Use drop down boxes,  and tests for completeness.   Have people fill it out via Email.   Add their completed questionnaire to a "database" for analysis.   Analyze the results graphically.    Use Pivot Tables to compare results demographically.

Please forward other ideas to me and we will get them on the schedule.