Category Archives: How Excel is used at Work

I use Microsoft Excel at work to calculate my drink prices. I am a bartender and if i want to introduce a new drink at the bar i first have to calculate how much it costs to make it. I input all that information in a spreadsheet nice and clean, then i can calculate the price i can charge for this drink and still make a profit!

chris rodriguez

I know that Excel is a very powerful and useful tool that can be used at the workplace, at school, in any kind of business. I never had a necessity to use it at work. I know that excel is used for more than what I use it for. Complicated calculations and analytical operations are the advantages that I know about, as well as simple view of the spreadsheet.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell that I am proficient with excel, yet eager to learn. Right now I am using it for scheduling my days. It makes it easier that I don’t need to draw a table, and corrections are easy. Another thing I do on excel is I organize the data, such as phone numbers and other information about other people(contact info).

I use excel at my work mainly to produce reports and analyze data.

I mostly use subtotal formulas to create tables that can be adjusted while keeping the ‘final’ section correct to the adjustment.

I am a Real Estate broker and Excel is a big part of my job tools. Every time I have an economic proposal, I used excel and plug the numbers (the rent, projected sales, real estate taxes, veritable rent, etc) and see if the investment is feasible. Even though excel is part of my professional life, I still need to get familiar with many options/formulas that I don’t know and my goal is to get proficiency in excel. I hope this course can help me improve my excel skills.

Francesc Fernandez

Excel has a lot of options and there are so many ways to use, but when I had an interneship in the CPA firm once I used Excel to count the ballots  for NYC short animated movie festival and to find out who got the reward.

Irina Shulgina

I have two instances of working with excel that I’d like to share with everyone. First, while I was interning at UBS Financial Services for a Wealth Management group I spent a lot of time working with excel spreadsheets for assignments ranging from creating model portfolios to organizing mutual funds. The experience really opened my eyes to how useful Excel really is and how vital it is to be proficient in Excel.

Prior to that, and actually to this day, I work as a bookkeeper for a nutrition company where I use several different programs including excel. Though excel is not the most major part of the job, without sufficient understanding of manipulating spreadsheets I would not be able to complete my work on time and that’s never good.

Posted by Kazimieras Buozys.

As I am an international student in the United States, I am not allowed to work outside school. I was so lucky that I had been employed in my previous college as the university center front desk reception, and my job is all about Excel. I have to create all my working partners’ working schedule. The reason that I love Microsoft Excel so much is I can upload them to my Google account as a google doc directly. Then, I can share my specific google Doc, with some specific people in my email contact list. I can save a lot of time on selecting everyone and sent him or her the document. Also, when I want to edit the excel document, I can just simply edit it on my own laptop and upload it again to the google doc, then the file will be automatically replaced.

posted by King Yu Chen

Excel has many functions. It can be used for scheduling. One of my favorite feature of excel’s scheduling  is that it can be color coded.  Excel is also designed to automatically reflect changes.  You can create daily, weekly or monthly worksheets documenting anything from meetings to conferences.

D. Ramroop

My dad runs a business and Excel/spreadsheets are very important to keep track of employee payrolls and taxes for the company. Turbotax is an excel software that keeps track of tax for you which is very helpful for any business. All together, Excel can organize a company’s data and make it easier to look something up. Compare that to having a drawer full of folders!

-alex a.

One way that I have seen people use excel is by keeping track investment portfolios. A model is created by the use of VBA (Visual Basic Application) which allows neat visual comparison of the performance of the portfilio with other benchmarks like the S&P500.

Tamjid Chowdhury