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It has beena long time since I have used excel at the work place and even then it was very basic. I worked as deta entry of forclosure company, so my usage of excel was limited to creating spreadsheet.I personally using excel in my daily life to keep track my family’s expenses, and keeping contact information. It is very interesting to read the post of other students, and understand the vast usage of excel.

Now that I am looking for a job it seems that excel is a very important part of the work place. I am eager to learn how to use excel in depth.

Hava Adziashvili

“Microsoft Excel is known for  its spreadsheet capabilities. However, Excel is capable of more than simply  accounting functions. Excel can also help users with statistical, engineering  and higher math calculations. The software can also use that information to  create charts and graphs that can make analysis more effective.”

“Excel can hold and manage large amounts of data; at least 65,000 rows. Cells can  be formatted and highlighted to show results that are outside of the stated  targets. Users can adjust the data to find out what happens to the final result  if input factors are changed. What-if analysis is used to test various scenarios  to reach the desired goals.”

Read more:  What Are the Uses of Microsoft Excel? | eHow.com

http://www.ehow.com/info_8171011_uses-microsoft-excel.html#ixzz25AmLer93

-Phil Loprete

Here is my experience in Excel. I have worked in a restaurant before, and I know that their cashier system is a form of excel. The systems could keep track on how the restaurant earns daily and even could keep track if any things have been damage or lost daily. The system could also keep track on what food people had ordered.This system could be great if we could set up in our home and keep track on our grocery.

As far as I know Excel is a very useful tools in the real life. Professor use excel to take attendance and forming presentations in class. Excel is easy to use and keep tack things daily.

Accountant and Entrepreneur use excel to keep track on their sales and budget. Excel could help them to analyze important data and preset formula to work out complicated balance sheet.

Students use Excel to do their homework and also analyze data on Excel.

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

I have never had to use Excel at work, but I had the opportunity to learn some basic features of this program. This is a very helpful tool at work because it gives the opportunity to organize data at a faster and effective way.

Being Accounting my field of study I am glad I am going to get a better understanding on how to efficiently use Excel. It’s a good program for scheduling, calculations, financial reports, journal entries and a couple other things that are necessary in the organization.

Cristina Rosario