It’s almost Oscar time again and there is no better way to beat the Sunday blues than to watch the rich and beautiful accept awards and provide “useful” political commentary on issues ranging from gun control to Darfur… all while you sit in the cozy confines of the living room where you can stuff chips and guac into your face without (much) shame.
Whether you love-hating these perfect Hollywood specimens at home, secretly hoping they trip over their impossibly high Louboutins… or with your buds at an Oscar watching party, spice up this year’s Academy Awards with the Excel Rain Man OSCulator (OSCAR + Calculator = OSCulator)… which is yet another Allyssa Tzavlakis creation!
The OSCulator is an easy to use Oscar winner pick-um game…. so let the betting begin! Here’s your chance to be a commish and bring the amazing OSCulator spreadsheet-based pool to your office chums, bowling league, intramural kickball squad or supper club.
Consider the OSCulator to be a great warm-up for the upcoming season of sports-related office pools… don’t forget, March Madness is just around the corner!
To use the free Excel Rain Man 2013 OSCulator:
Go to the Tips & Tricks page of www.ExcelRainMan.com and download the file called 2013 OSCulator.
A pop-up window will appear asking you to Open or Save this file. We recommend saving the file in a memorable directory on your PC (Desktop or My Documents).
Now find the 2013 Osculator.zip file that you saved, right click on it and select “Extract All…”. Once this is complete (note the Wizard is happy to walk you through this), we suggest opening the 2013 OSCulator Guide to walk you through your brand new 2013 OSCulator.
Direct the pool entrants to download the 2013 Oscar Ballots for free from the Tips & Tricks page of www.ExcelRainMan.com. Ask all participants to enter their Name where indicated on the form and make a selection for each Award Category using the available dropdown menus.
Your crew sends back their completed Ballots.
You (aka the Pool Manager) will keep track of their selections via the 2013 OSCulator. Let our OSCulator do the work of tallying up the results on OSCAR night so you can get back to your white zin and enjoy the rest of your evening.
Please note that both our PC and Mac friends can participate in the OSCAR Pool by filling out the ballots, but the 2013 OSCulator has to be run by a PC.
US Heat Map
If you are in need of a US Heat Map or just want to check out another cool Rain-Template, then you must download the FREE Excel Rain Man US Heat Map.
See our blog post or the actual US Heat Map for details on how this works.
Go to the Tips & Tricks page of www.ExcelRainMan.com to download the FREE Excel Rain Man US Heat Map. If you want us to customize the colors or the map more to your steeze… just Submit a Request and we can bepoke this heat map to your liking. Be sure to Enable Macros when you open the workbook.
Due to the use of Macros, the Excel Rain Man US Heat Map is only compatible for our PC crew. Sorry Macsters… let us know if you need us to customize something state-tacular for you and we will get up on it!