This weeks assignments and topics were more interesting than some of the previous. We learned about Excel and it's many uses. I'm pretty familiar with excel, but I always seen to forget the command aspects that it has to offer. The commands in excel are super powerful but so underutilized in todays business.
For an explanation to a new user about what we learned in this segment would be as follows. Imagine you had rows and rows of data, but no way to calculate it. Excel offers the ability to manipulate the data to give such outputs as averages, summations and even amounts of days. To do this, you would need to learn some simple commands and have a basic understanding of math. If you can do this, the skills you have would be highly desired by businesses just about anywhere.
I find for my self, the largest piece of information that I learned was getting a refresher on the commands. I learned them once in CGS when I was a freshman, so it's nice to learn it again, because I never get a chance to actually use them. On top of this, the commands offered in excel are very powerful for computing large amounts of data. I could see this being very important in many different fields of jobs. Of instance, I was interning at a law office over the summer and I had to use it, good thing I was somewhat familiar with it.
A website that I found an easy reference is this (http://www.vtaskstudio.com/help/action_excel.htm) excel command site. It easily lists the commands and also shows you how to use them. Also, by showing this website, it further proves the easiness of this program. Excel is fairly basic, but in the right hands, could accomplish what ten people would have to do.
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