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Most Widely Used Applications of Excel
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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Hi,
The problem with this question is that there are at least 750,000,000 users of Excel and each one probably uses it in some unique way in there particular industry. Hopefully someone will be more helpful than that. -- If this helps, please click the Yes button. Cheers, Shane Devenshire "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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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. -- Dave Peterson |
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I once read somewhere it was shopping lists.
- Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services, Inc. http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/ _______ "Dee" wrote in message ... 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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I bet lists of records/tapes/cd's used to be popular, too. With MP3s and the
like, not so much. Books and DVDs, too??? Jon Peltier wrote: I once read somewhere it was shopping lists. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services, Inc. http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/ _______ "Dee" wrote in message ... 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. -- Dave Peterson |
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I use it to make word search puzzles.
Most people have a calculator handy when they need to do some quick calculations. I *always* have Excel open and running and use it for my quick calcs. -- Biff Microsoft Excel MVP "Dave Peterson" wrote in message ... I bet lists of records/tapes/cd's used to be popular, too. With MP3s and the like, not so much. Books and DVDs, too??? Jon Peltier wrote: I once read somewhere it was shopping lists. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services, Inc. http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/ _______ "Dee" wrote in message ... 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. -- Dave Peterson |
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Thanks for your responses - both the serious and the not-so-serious ones.
Shopping lists indeed! :-) "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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