Google "excel templates business processes free".
This gave me 2.260.000 results.
Are you sure this doesan't exist already?
Tommy

And here I thought this was a place where Excel Templates could meet other Excel Templates with similar interests! :(

@vanhees: obviously there are many free templates floating around, what I propose is a web site that allows you to judge their quality.

I guess the bigger problem is that in most cases will be provided with templates from reliable sources: they get them from their colleagues, or the teacher of the business development course, or the dietarian who advises them etc.

Still, I guess my idea is just a variation of the general social network principle. Perhaps I can get the Excel community as a cheap spinoff from another social network I will eventually create.

@cRitter: I know, I thought about that too, when I reread my headline ;-)

Understand your point Bjoern.
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Tommy

A possible model would be a site like
http://www.codeproject.com/

They have several languages (C#, VB, etc.) and a hierarchy of project types, but the basic articles consist of someone's code and a brief tutorial article. The articles provide a good overview of the goal of the code so you can find things that suit your needs and they also provide keyword-rich content for search engines.

I haven't used Excel for anything more than arithmetic since the late 90's, but if there's still a lot of people using it this could be a beneficial site. I'm not sure about the business potential, but it might get enough traffic to support itself on ad revenue.

I'm sure you've probably see http://www.MrExcel.com
It's not social networking site, but a good reference for a fellow Excel-ist

actually, to the utter astoundment of myself and anyone who knows me, i've become a bit of an excel wizard in my current job. and actually, the excel online community has never failed me, and i ask some fairly obscure questions.

from excel, if you click the little blue question mark button, and then click "can't find it?" at the bottom of the search sidebar, it will take you there. previous Q&A's are searchable (of course), and it's quite wide & deep at this point, with links out to other resources.

haven't gotten too much into the template thing, but if i had the need i'm sure i'd go there and find it somewhere.

Thanks for the pointers! I don't know very much about Excel myself, unfortunately, so your input is very valuable to me.

I didnt get the need really if this is for programmers using "Excel" format or judging a quality template work?

THough i deemed there's need to allocate large amounts of memory when exporting reports is particularly troublesome to small businesses is more primordial (to pre-unlimited size attachment days) before.

I know am getting offline but What about "open office" excel type familiarity would it solved this microsoft dependency?

There are some learning object repositories out there like MERLOT http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm Might be an interesting model for you excel templates

@Saigon: I wouldn't target programmers. I just think that there are lots and lots of Excel applications. So rather than program lots of Web 2.0 applications, perhaps many problems could be solved with more reliable access to such Excel applications.

When I say Excel, I also mean Open Office and Google Spreadsheets.

Good idea. The problem is sorting out the rubbish that is on offer.