Unfortunately, I don’t use Excel at my workplace but I have some basic knowledge of how to use the program.
This is someone sharing his experience with Excel:
“My experience with Excel in the workplace is that most Excel applications are developed by people whose job description includes something like ‘develop spreadsheets for use by accounting and administration departments in the company’.
For those in office support, admin asst positions, etc, the job description is pointed more towards data entry in Excel applications developed by the folks in the first group. More like a ‘database management’ thing.”
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120827110457AAXTvTx
I also found some good info of why Excel is so important in the workplace:
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Importance-Of-Excel-In-The-Workplace&id=724646
Elena Turcan