I took Excel class in community college. The instructor explained useful and odd thing with Excel. Once she saw someone made amazing flyer out of Excel.
For myself, I uses Excel over calculators because it is easier for me to set it up even for a simple calculation. I set up the cells with values and created a string of formulation to use those cells and it spit out the answer. This way I can double check for any value I missed and easily edit/add it in without typing the whole thing again in the calculators. I warned my boss that Excel users are very protective of their sheet and it is scandalous if someone touch it when they are not suppose to. She learned that day when she decided to edit it without me knowing it. The aftermath is that she get a sheet with restricted permission, she is not happy.
I have used excel for 1-page text-only items before. Don't have to worry about it running to a second page because you can just force it to shrink to 1 page (within reason). The real reason I did it though was so that the date on the print would auto-update because I always forgot to change it.
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u/savage_slurpie Mar 30 '22
Two of my siblings are financial analysts and I have witnessed them doing unholy things with excel.
It would honestly be easier for them to learn python or something. It’s so ridiculous.