My friend, Heather Mak, asked if I’d like to be interviewed for her new online magazine, Five Takeaways. What key things should people know about Excel? What are its Five Takeaways?
The magazine’s first article was about American Chinese food, and the second article focused on a giant island of garbage that’s floating in the Pacific Ocean.
So, they’ve covered take-out and throw out. How does Excel fit into that pattern? I guess you can use Excel to figure things out.
Heather sent me a few questions to help me start thinking.
- How exactly did you get into Excel? (were you there from day one?)
- What exactly does a Microsoft MVP do?
- Is there a typical description that you could give of a Microsoft MVP? It seems like an interesting niche!
- What are some novel uses of Excel that you’ve seen?
- Why do you think Excel is so great?
- What are some commonly encountered problems that people most often ask your help for?
- What would you say are the most basic/important formulas/functions of Excel that people should know?
I’ll give this some thought over the weekend, and see what I can come up with.
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I don’t ‘get’ that website yet. I’m still monitoring it, but I don’t feel any smarter after the first two that I read.