Microsoft Excel
 

My brain is hard wired for language. I've always appreciated the logic and certainty of mathematics, just not my thing.

Microsoft Excel is, however, the bomb. I use it every day and a few months ago went through all the Microsoft courses to learn everything it can do - it is frigging awesome.

Once you get comfortable with the formulas and what they do accounting, auditing, and statistical tasks are a snap and (almost) enjoyable.

I became so enamored with the graph and chart generator the home office had to ask me to quit flooding them with stat tables and prediction graphs.:o

The program has made a large part of my work much less of a headache.

where, how?

My first spreadsheet program was DEC-calc.

It was very slow, among other things. Want to add a row? Hit the button and go to lunch.

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...e-97a71c2e8a4a

Applies to Excel 2013 - not any big changes for 2016, they don't have much for 2016.

Excel for Dummies excellent as well - I use it all the time and go back to the above when I need to.

You can get Microsoft Certified - I might eventually but don"t see the point at the moment.

I am taking MCAS Windows at New Horizons until November.

thank you

I live to serve. :p

Never thought I would enjoy the mundane mathematical part of my job, but once I learned everything Excel can do I found a certain artistic bent to it.

Go figure.

I always loved numbers, lines, grafts, flow charts, geometry, maps, anything that could be visually learned or logically linked.

I think we are all fans of Excel but speaking for myself, I am not very good at it.

I doubt I am either - but I am now confident enough with it that I no longer scream at the computer.

"SUM, you stupid motherf&%ker, SUM!!!"

That's a big change I've noticed in myself. I yell at the computer now. Never used to.