About Excel

There are very, very few people on planet Earth who could ever say they’ve completely mastered every intricate little thing about Microsoft Excel.

It’s the world’s premiere spreadsheet application, and has been the industry standard for over 20 years, replacing the once-venerable Lotus 1-2-3, the first killer app for PCs in the 1980s. Microsoft Excel’s dominance as a spreadsheet is mostly with fact of how microsoft markets its products by giving freebies bundled when you buy desktops or laptops, now we can see Google’s sheets picking up in the market.

There’s a reason for that. Excel is more than a brand everyone knows: it is powerful. It does just about everything one could ask for in a spreadsheet. The Excel 2013 version onwards has 2 new features which powers excel twice its strength, available as part of add-ins are Power Query and Power Pivot.

I have found that it is “still far and away the most powerful, and now the easiest-to-use, worksheet app…it’s the first and only choice for manipulating numeric data.”

One thing almost every Excel user has in common: not knowing enough. There are so many ways to slice and dice numbers, give that data a new look, and more, it’s impossible to recount them all. Entire books are written on the topic. But it’s easy to master some of the more interesting and intricate tips that will make your time using the program a little easier, and will make you look like your office’s guru of high-tech spreadsheetery.

So bone up on any or all of these tricks to excel at Excel by requesting for a 45 minutes eye opener session together with your fellow colleagues or your own group of people.