Microsoft Excel has roughly three-quarters of a billion users around the world. That makes it one of the most popular apps of any kind.
Most people think of Excel as an app for crunching numbers but there’s much more to it than that. What can you do on Microsoft Excel? Let’s find out.
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Typical Spreadsheet Functions
The most obvious thing Excel can do is work with numbers. It can perform calculations, run statistical and mathematical functions, do financial simulations, and other modeling functions. If you can think of a calculation or application involving numbers, Excel can probably handle it.
Dashboards and Reports
Not only can Excel perform those calculations, but it can also make the output look great. Excel dashboards can give you a snapshot of various pieces of information about your business in a single easy-to-read sheet. Those reports can even pull data from the web to update themselves automatically.
Create Custom Apps
If you really want to master Excel, learn how to use the programming language built into it, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). VBA lets you create custom apps built on top of Excel. They can tie into other applications, like Word and Access, or connect to web services to pull in data. You can also use a C# create Excel file tool to automate building new spreadsheets.
Manage Databases
Excel isn’t only about working with numbers, it can also work with data. You can create an entire database system within Excel and use its lookup functions to work with that information. If you need a more advanced database, Excel will work as the front-end interface for a Microsoft Access database. This way, you can have the more advanced features of a full-fledged database app while still using Excel to slice and dice the information.
Create Documents
Don’t overlook Excel for everyday document creation though. If you need to create a document that has a lot of tables or other bits of information that need to be aligned in columns, Excel is hard to beat. You’ll have much more control over the layout for this type of information than you would with Word or another word processing app.
Drawings and Art
It’s unlikely the people who created Excel ever expected it to be used to create art but that hasn’t stopped people from finding a way. People like Tatsuo Horiuchi, the Michelangelo of Excel, create literal works of art in the app. Looking at some of the artwork, you would never think the same app that accountants use to crunch numbers also created it.
What Can You Do on Microsoft Excel? More Like What Can’t You Do. So what can you do on Microsoft Excel? These are some of the most useful and inspirational ways you can use the app but there’s no end to the different ways it can make your life easier.
Spend some time with it to see what you can come up with for yourself. Was this post useful? Be sure to check out the rest of our blog for more helpful articles about how to get more out of your tech gear.
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