Question

Explain why learning Excel could be useful outside of the work environment.

Which unit concept did you think was the most difficult to learn? Describe what you needed to do to clarify that concept. Add the helpful information or video link if applicable.

Answer 1

One of the best reason is to organize yourself. You can set a goal, make plans & create a proper dos and don’ts to avoid your mistakes. You can make a schedule for your day to day life to make it more clear you can just organize it according to your lifestyle, you will know what ideas are worth for you and with which priority you will need to implement them.

You will have great advantage of using it as a money organizer instead of doing your tedious work of calculation of your daily house expenses, you can create monthly expenses reports, You can track all of your spending and allocate your allowances wisely.

Excel is not just a software it help you do some stuff better than doing it on your with pen and paper.

For example you are calculating some tax deduction using a formula every time you have to calculate it for every values again and again, But here excel gives you an upper hand u just have to choose the formula apply ones & you can reuse it for any values and best of all it can arrange it in columns so you won’t have to make it on paper and avoid you efforts so you can easily analyse your data.

There is more than things excel provides and that what it something complicated like

• excel formulas how annd when to use them.
• Pivot Tables and how to use them.(external link is provied for more)

But actually it is a slow learning phase so you don’t have to worry that much about it just yet, you just have to gradually increase you use you will get to know more about it and you will find it new ways and methods which are already provided by excel. More you use more you try stuff you will get to know more. Good luck!

For the external links

1. Basics of excel

https://www.goskills.com/Excel/Resources/Why-learn-excel

https://www.goskills.com/Excel/Resources/How-to-master-Excel

2. For more advance and hard concepts (It totally depends on your use and how you use)

https://chandoo.org/wp/top-10-excel-struggles-and-solutions/