<p>Joel often talks about using MS Excel for lightweight project management, but I'm curious about actual implementations of this idea. I've seen some templates that seem to clone MS Project via macros, which would be overkill for a lightweight project. Anyone have any useful templates?</p>

You have some pretty advance template with
Pipetalk Scheduler
alt text http://ep.yimg.com/ip/I/pipetalk_2055_216386
However, since it seems to be a
little too much
, I just transfered that to the
worst UI thread
;)