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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.
The program has made a large part of my work much less of a headache.
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went through all the Microsoft courses
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where, how?
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05-30-2016, 04:09 PM
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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.
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05-30-2016, 04:37 PM
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where, how?
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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.
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05-30-2016, 05:07 PM
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I am taking MCAS Windows at New Horizons until November.
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Originally Posted by catswiththum
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.
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05-30-2016, 07:25 PM
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thank you
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I live to serve.
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.
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I live to serve.
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.
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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.
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05-31-2016, 08:09 AM
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I think we are all fans of Excel but speaking for myself, I am not very good at it.
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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!!!"
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05-31-2016, 08:13 AM
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That's a big change I've noticed in myself. I yell at the computer now. Never used to.
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