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sometimeagreatnotion t1_j98ytma wrote

Reply to LPT: Take a few days to familiarize yourself with a spreadsheet app (e.g., MS Excel, Google Sheets). The uses are endless for school, the office, life, and other people will think you're a wizard. by tophswanson

I think if teachers and professors started creating tasks/work that surround excel usage it’s a great way to learn by doing and showing the value of excel both in high school and Uni/college. Its such a key skill employers are looking for and not too difficult to pick up on your own.

It is amazing how so many people marvel or claim “you’re a wizard” when you can demonstrate basic and intermediate excel functions that help automate work tasks, and you’re like, “uh no I just watched a video to learn how to do it.” But also I’ve also been amazed at the resistance to learn how to continue using excel in more effective and advanced ways by co-workers.

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TheShaggyRogers23 OP t1_j98ve1v wrote

Reply to comment by turtleheadmaker in LPT: Condense a thought or an idea down to a single word, and make a mental list of these Individual words until they can be recorded elsewhere and cleared from the mind. by TheShaggyRogers23

TL;DR: When you can't immediately write down your recent ideas, reduce them to one-word summaries and keep a mental record of these words. Not only will this approach enable you to retain more ideas, but it will also allow you to navigate between them effortlessly.

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trymypi t1_j98qpid wrote

Reply to comment by pedrodteixeira in LPT: Take a few days to familiarize yourself with a spreadsheet app (e.g., MS Excel, Google Sheets). The uses are endless for school, the office, life, and other people will think you're a wizard. by tophswanson

I put a class together for exactly this last semester. Most students were pretty happy but one thought it would be better for me to have taught Photoshop haha. (There's already a class for this)

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Just-Take-One t1_j98p8b0 wrote

Reply to comment by sadiesaysit in LPT: Take a few days to familiarize yourself with a spreadsheet app (e.g., MS Excel, Google Sheets). The uses are endless for school, the office, life, and other people will think you're a wizard. by tophswanson

Excel Web is good enough for most users. You don't even need to learn any fancy commands, just simple mathematics is, again, good enough for most users. Google sheets will have all the same basic commands, just in a slightly different interface.

I've always found a personal budget to be a good learning tool. Write some expense labels on the rows, months in the columns, fill in a dollar amount in the middle and have a total column at the end. Formulas all follow the same general layout "=A1+B1+C1+D1". You can use mathematical functions too like "Sum" and "Average" etc which would look like "=SUM(A1:D1)".

Basically, just use it as a fancy calculator while you're learning.

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