![]() Unlike a lot of people advocating for the study and use of Excel everywhere possible, I suggest evaluating if you really intend to use what you are going to learn from these courses. This last course to me seems optional and is a generalization of everything learned with some great practical exercises to solidify the knowledge acquired. Beyond that stay clear of it and look into beautiful and powerful solutions like Tableau and many others.Ĭert Prep: Excel Expert - Microsoft Office Specialist by Jennifer McBee For example, todoist is an incredible tool for this.ĭata Visualization tool - If you totally need to add that chart or table to a Word document or presentation then Excels compatibility with Word and PowerPoint is great. ![]() TO-DO list - All right, you can use lists in Excel and editing them is pretty intuitive, I am sure some readers use it this way but for the well connected millennial there are many much better solutions that offer great integrations with calendars and mobile apps. Excel simply wasn’t created to accommodate even a basic Waterfall methodology, not to say the messy Agile approach, so give up and try something like Trello. ![]() I still remember the pain of nagging people to update that cell in the workbook before the next meeting. Project Management tool - This is the most widespread corporate misuse that had a resurgence with the introduction of Sheets as you can collaborate with your co-workers on the same spreadsheet in any browser. ![]() That is why we should establish early what Microsoft Excel is NOT: Sadly, Excel’s misuse became incredibly common since the early 2000s. While understanding the basics, going into deeper functionality is definitely not for everyone and for many it will offer diminishing returns because of how narrow are the advanced use cases. Unsurprisingly, Excel continues to be misunderstood as the Swiss knife of data for the basic user, which is fair to expect from such a popular tool but in the end, it was originally created for scientists and economists as the target audience and today it remains one of their go-to tools.Įxcel is not for everyone and that's fine. ![]()
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