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Who uses Excel the most?
I'm teaching a college course and would like to convince my students that
Excel is used by "regular" business users, that is, accountants, salesmen and production workers, as opposed to programmers. Is there any data on how large the market segments for Excel are? |
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Who uses Excel the most?
Stephen wrote...
I'm teaching a college course and would like to convince my students that Excel is used by "regular" business users, that is, accountants, salesmen and production workers, as opposed to programmers. Is there any data on how large the market segments for Excel are? Microsoft doesn't publish anything. Try Eusprig. Also, there are many academic studies of spreadsheet use, errors and risks. But if you REALLY want to convince your students that people EMPLOYED as programmers with the word PROGRAMMER in their job description usually DON'T use Excel, assign them the task of either finding 10 online job descriptions for PROGRAMMER or SOFTWARE ENGINEER that REQUIRE knowledge of Excel or explaining why they couldn't if Excel is only used by programmers. Another option would be looking at the online course catalogs of the top 10 business schools. How many schools offer courses on spreadsheet modeling? Would your students really try to make a case that the high- powered MBAs coming out of these business schools who took those classes would be mere programmers? |
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Who uses Excel the most?
Ouch.. mere programmers...
"Harlan Grove" wrote: Stephen wrote... I'm teaching a college course and would like to convince my students that Excel is used by "regular" business users, that is, accountants, salesmen and production workers, as opposed to programmers. Is there any data on how large the market segments for Excel are? Microsoft doesn't publish anything. Try Eusprig. Also, there are many academic studies of spreadsheet use, errors and risks. But if you REALLY want to convince your students that people EMPLOYED as programmers with the word PROGRAMMER in their job description usually DON'T use Excel, assign them the task of either finding 10 online job descriptions for PROGRAMMER or SOFTWARE ENGINEER that REQUIRE knowledge of Excel or explaining why they couldn't if Excel is only used by programmers. Another option would be looking at the online course catalogs of the top 10 business schools. How many schools offer courses on spreadsheet modeling? Would your students really try to make a case that the high- powered MBAs coming out of these business schools who took those classes would be mere programmers? |
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Who uses Excel the most?
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One way would be to get your students to get 10 job advertisements for accountsants, managers etc and see if they requirements specify Excel (or Office Skills). You could also ask your Admin. Dept. if the students could have a visit and see all the staff using Excel. -- Hope this helps Martin Fishlock, www.nyfconsultants.com, Wolverhampton, UK Please do not forget to rate this reply. "Stephen" wrote: I'm teaching a college course and would like to convince my students that Excel is used by "regular" business users, that is, accountants, salesmen and production workers, as opposed to programmers. Is there any data on how large the market segments for Excel are? |
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Who uses Excel the most?
So you're convincing your students of something you can't substantiate!
John "Stephen" wrote in message ... I'm teaching a college course and would like to convince my students that Excel is used by "regular" business users, that is, accountants, salesmen and production workers, as opposed to programmers. Is there any data on how large the market segments for Excel are? |
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Who uses Excel the most?
I thought "regular" business users used PowerPoint, not Excel, while "real"
programmers use dot net. I don't know where that leaves the rest of us... - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Peltier Technical Services, Inc. http://PeltierTech.com/WordPress/ Don't miss it! Only two weeks away! Advanced Excel Conference - June 17-18 2009 - Charting and Programming http://peltiertech.com/Training/2009...00906ACNJ.html _______ "Stephen" wrote in message ... I'm teaching a college course and would like to convince my students that Excel is used by "regular" business users, that is, accountants, salesmen and production workers, as opposed to programmers. Is there any data on how large the market segments for Excel are? |
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