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Skill Level: Competent
Unlike it's suite mate Word, I LOVE Excel and use it with gusto. It is by far Microsoft's best product.
I spent most of my post-college life totally ignorant about spreadsheets and Excel. Whenever someone sent a .xls to me, I'd fight with it for 5 minutes and then cut and paste it into Word, where I'd butcher it until I didn't understand any of it.
It wasn't until I became the Executive Director of Friends of Mount Sunapee in 2004 that a good friend taught me how to use Excel to manage our organization's meager budget. That moment opened the door for me to become much more financially competent in my personal and professional life, and it opened a door to my understanding of more complicated financial management software like Quickbooks.
Now for Joomlashack I've studied under the Excel God/Sensei Mr. Barrie North, and I've gotten very competent using all aspects of Excel. We build budgets, projections, and even charts to see how our businesses are doing. In fact, I find Excel so useful now that I don't really need Quickbooks and all its heavy, slow features.
Looking back, I realize Excel would have helped me pass my college ecology class, which was all equations. Why don't they teach you stuff like Excel at liberal arts college?
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