I have no idea if this is true, but I remember reading a few years ago that the
majority of excel workbooks don't contain formulas.

That means that they're used as flat file databases--typewriters with nice
columns (if you will).

I know that there were lots of excel workbooks where I used to work that were
tracking databases only. Yeah, autofilters were turned on and =subtotal()'s
were used. Maybe summary reports/pivottables, too.

Dee wrote:

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a resource page that would outline some of
the most common uses of Excel. In other words, for example, the main reasons
Sales Reps, or Customer Service Reps, or Manufacturing Industry, Service
business, etc. use Excel.

So, more of a general application description, such as Top/Bottom 10% Sales
Figures, etc. as opposed to Pivot Tables, vLookups, etc.

Thanks.

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Dave Peterson