Microsoft Excel Wizard
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The older I get, the dorkier I become. At this point of my life I think I'd trade athletic or musical skill to become an excel wizard. My excel skills are lacking, but I'm constantly amazed at others spreadsheets that look like the were designed by 2nd graders.
I struggle with pivot tables. I wish I could retire now, at 52. My younger employees help the old man out quite often.
The second that I see somebody try to do something complex in excel that could be done with low to moderate skill in SQL, SAS, etc., depending on the desired output, he/she gets a PIP
Yep, sometimes people try to overcomplicate things in Excel when a simple SQL query or a quick SAS script could do the job faster and more efficiently. It’s all about knowing when to use the right tool for the job. I’ve been guilty of trying to do too much in Excel before, but after taking some Free Microsoft Excel Tutorials online, I realized how much more efficient I could be by combining Excel with other tools like SQL. The tutorials helped me understand when Excel is the best choice and when to switch to something more powerful.
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I figured I would interject this here:
As a Gen X guy starting in the workplace mid 90s I watched both myself and my peers (including some but not all boomers) learn word and excel and power point from scratch and saw our skills and productivity really flourish into the early 00s.
Then I watched the now oldest millennials coming out of college even more proficient than most of us with MS Office stuff, showing us even cooler and quicker ways to do things.
But since about let’s say 2019ish, I have now noticed the youngest millennials/ Gen Z folks are coming in with dog crap for Microsoft office skills and shockingly bad at putting together our tables and reports we need. I am having to teach 23-24 year olds excel and word things all the time. Now what they are much better at is the apps we use for data collecting and other such things. But, man, by and larg, it is shocking how currently you can tell a lot of the younger generation is not at all learning word and excel beyond the most basic level graduating college. I don’t see those two programs becoming obsolete or not needed anytime soon at a lot of work places…
As a Gen X guy starting in the workplace mid 90s I watched both myself and my peers (including some but not all boomers) learn word and excel and power point from scratch and saw our skills and productivity really flourish into the early 00s.
Then I watched the now oldest millennials coming out of college even more proficient than most of us with MS Office stuff, showing us even cooler and quicker ways to do things.
But since about let’s say 2019ish, I have now noticed the youngest millennials/ Gen Z folks are coming in with dog crap for Microsoft office skills and shockingly bad at putting together our tables and reports we need. I am having to teach 23-24 year olds excel and word things all the time. Now what they are much better at is the apps we use for data collecting and other such things. But, man, by and larg, it is shocking how currently you can tell a lot of the younger generation is not at all learning word and excel beyond the most basic level graduating college. I don’t see those two programs becoming obsolete or not needed anytime soon at a lot of work places…
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