For this week’s blog I will be focusing on Excel and its many uses in the business world. Version 1 of Excel was originally released for a Macintosh in 1985, followed by a windows version in 1987. Excel is a spreadsheet application that can function in many ways, such as, a simple day-to-day planner or meticulous in depth business analysis tool with graphs, tables, and complex formulas. Before the introduction of this application, accountants, bankers, investors, and any other person, from students to corporate lords, had to write all of their numerical data on paper. Imagine if there were a calculation error or a missed entry in a multi-thousand cell excel sheet; you would have to flip page-by-page laboriously searching for the error. However, since the introduction of Microsoft Excel, you can now search an entire document instantaneously just by hitting CTRL+F (find), your calculations will be perfectly computed, and your graphs and charts (once hand written and inaccurate) will now be colorful and free of errors. Excel not only changed the way business was done, it revolutionized it by making data more accurate, easily sharable/accessible and did so in a user friendly, aesthetically pleasing format.
One of my teachers, Eric Olson, said: “To me, Excel is the Swiss Army knife of the software world. I cannot imagine having a computer without it!” I couldn’t agree more with this statement; so I decided to make a fun image below to visually illustrate the capabilities that have been jammed inside the Excel application.
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