My Experience With Excel

After working with Excel so much in class, I feel as if I am now well equipped to use the tools Excel offers to their full potential. Before taking this class, I had a very limited amount of experience with using Excel. Now, however, I know how to use formulas, cell references, conditional formatting, charts and graphs, and many of the other tools Excel offers. I had no idea Excel had so many built in formulas that can be used for a multitude of calculations. I also didn’t realize that you could make absolute or relative references to other cells in Excel. Excel is very useful because it allows you to easily manipulate and work with a large amount of data. It is a helpful tool for businesses and some academic fields because you can quickly apply formulas to large amounts of data with a small amount of effort. For example, a small business owner could use Excel to analyze their expenses and income using Excel’s built-in formulas and cell references. A teacher could use Excel to calculate grades for all of their students at one time. I plan to use Excel in the future if I have a large amount of data I need to organize and manipulate or if I need to make a chart or graph.