Excel Project: Why Work Harder When You Can Work Smarter?!

Use "EXCEL" - One of the Most Powerful Applications in the Arsenal of Business Tools  

Hawiane Tidwell, 2012.

Excel is one of the most useful software tools available today!  VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet application which simply crunched numbers, provided bankers, accountants, financial managers and others with the power to work more efficiently with numbers.  Making it possible for users to not only perform simple, mathematical calculations like addition, subtraction, division and multiplication more quickly but to also do it accurately - even when handling a large amount of information. 

Hawiane Tidwell, 2012.

While Excel still provides the same functions provided by VisiCalc, Excel also provides users with so much more.  With Excel, one has the ability to perform much more complex mathematical functions which utilizes logic, financial and statistical formulas.  Excel also provides the tools necessary to analyze and comprehensively display information using charts, graphs, tables and pivot tables.  Excel is very user-friendly and provides a function library which makes it easy for users to find the needed syntax (correct format) for any formula.  Or users can press the "F1" key for access to Excel's built-in "Help and How-to" library.     

Hawiane Tidwell, 2012.

Over the last couple of weeks I have used Excel to complete a class assignment and it was obvious to me that Excel's functionality is one of the reasons why it is such a useful and popular tool.  Excel is utilized by many different entities (charities, schools, hospitals, banks, and businesses of all types - large and small, etc.) and also across all industries.  Excel gives entities the power of processing and analyzing data with just a few key strokes. 

Hawiane Tidwell, 2012.

I used Excel's various methods of displaying information to create all the images shown in this blog.  The first one is the result of a pivot table and the others are that same information displayed differently.  This is my favorite function of Excel because it is so flexible and it only takes a few seconds to display information in a very useful way - which is why Excel is also the top choice for anyone who needs to analyze and display information. 

Excel definitely allows users to work SMARTER and not HARDER...