Excel is the best program to use.

I’ve been writing a monthly newsletter now since February, 2006, and in doing a quick review of them I have noticed something that is no surprise to me. I seem to have the most tips for Excel. It has become quite apparent to me, after providing software training for several years now, that the subject I teach the most often, by far, is Excel. You may not think you need to know this program because you don’t have a need for complex spreadsheets. Even if you just want to keep an inventory list, Excel is the best program to use. Not only can you quickly do complex calculations, but you can instantly sort, filter, create a chart, or even just keep lists of things.

I use Excel myself to: create invoices, record my income and expenses, track our monthly/yearly household expenses, and, just recently, I have a workbook with my favourite authors and the books of theirs I have read (I got tired of getting books from the library and realizing, when I started reading one, that I had read it a few years ago).

Sure, I could have done some of it in Word but I like the flexibility of Excel. On every worksheet, in every workbook, (version 2003 and prior) you can have 65,536 rows and 256 columns of information! That is over 16 MILLION cells. By formatting the individual cells, the possi-bilities are limitless. In Office 2007 each worksheet holds 16,384 columns and 1,048,576 rows! That is over 17 BILLION cells. Scary…

Donna Harwood, The Office Tutor

www.theofficetutor.com 905-898-1415

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