Why do you use Excel?
If you ask most of the billion Excel users around the globe, most of them will say they use Excel for these two main reasons:
- As a convenient place to store information – more structured than using post-it notes, but flexible enough to evolve over time
- A convenient way to exchange information – because everybody else uses it
If you are an Excel power user, you'll add a third reason:
- You use Excel to process important information. And your organization depends on the knowledge you have in your head to get the process right
In working with Excel, you and your colleagues are using it as the core engine to drive your business. Let’s look at a couple of real-world examples.
Excel as the engine room of the business
There are many important jobs in every business (I’m using business as shorthand for any organization). But those jobs will grind to a halt without a way of capturing, processing, and...
