Week 11 – using Microsoft excel

Hey everyone,
The tutorial task was basic to advanced tasks using Microsoft excel. To be honest I can’t say I’ve used too much of this program, learnt a little of it in high school a few years back and can’t really recall much. This year I have only used in once, I had a whole bunch of figures from a psychology assignment and I wanted to work out the averages and put it into a chart. To be honest I think working it out on a calculator and making a chart would have taken around the same amount of time anyway. Like the Microsoft word task last week I found the beginning tasks very easy, just simply adding data into cells which is simple. Then the formulas weren’t too difficult, I already had some basic knowledge in that area, I had never just written the formula though, I had always selected the formula button from the toolbar that does all that hard stuff for you. The graphs weren’t too difficult, as I said before I had already used this tool this year in another assignment. Now macros, I was LOST. Makes sense now, sometimes I open up excel files at work and it asks me to enable/disable macros and I had never knew what that meant. I now know it allows you to record certain functions in excel which can result in saving time at a later date. I did find this section a little difficult because I was not familiar with this at all, it was all new. I don’t think this software would be as useful to be as Microsoft word, as I said before in the whole year I have only used it once and I really could have gotten around that by using something else e.g.) calculator and making a chart in word. If I were to use it, I think it would only be good for personal reasons like personal finance or if I happen to have a small company and wanted to keep track of things such as wages, costs, hours ect….. I think it would benefit students doing subjects like accounting… more business orientated courses :)