Best Way to Learn Excel?

latestgood
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:23:54 +0000

If you never worked in finance sector, I’ll be very careful using proficient and excel in a same sentence. At this point in your life, it’s best for you to learn the basics and know the general idea of excel. Everything else, you’ll learn through your job.

Before my internship in a finance department, I felt that I was a above average in terms of excel skills. Many of my friends and families would ask me first when they had questions about excel. After all, I’ve been using excel I was in a middle school. But, I was wrong big time.

There are so much things you can do with excel and there’s no way for you to know everything. Just learn the basics and understand the general idea of excel. Training will be provided through your job but if don’t have a strong foundations in excel, you simply can not keep. To give you an example, average people type 35-50 words per minute and only few can type 100 wpm. I saw my self as 50-60wpm in excel in the finance department; in the finance department, everybody was typing 100wpm.