I am learning excel right now because of the same reasons as you. I
bought a book on formulas and a book on VBA (go to Amazon.com or
something, they were 600 and 800 page books and I got them for about
$50 together shipped!). Just brief through the books to get a good idea
of where everything is (in the book) and scrape the surface of how
everything works. Always read the Tips too.

Other than that you should apply it. I joined 3 Excel based forums and
I check out all different questions and try to post an answer or a
whole spreadsheet as an example. It's good for practice. OR you could
join a newsgroup, I like the forums a little better, though, because
you can download any .zip files people have uploaded to the forum (who
is a registered user, at least) and I hate having a million e-mails
about who posted to a thread that you did.

But whatever you do, practice is the key. Big time. I can't begin to
tell you HOW FAST I've been learning this program (ESPECIALLY VBA).
Don't get me wrong, I've had a course or two on programming (but the
last one was 1 year ago...and it was 2 courses), but I have TONS of
learning to do.

And motivation....high motivation is excellent. My incentive? More
money for higher education, like what you're doing this for. Just have
fun doing it...I know I am!


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