I need to know something regarding your workplace, specifically, how you work with Excel (or other spreadsheet applications).

  1. Generally, what do you use Excel for? Keeping track of something (inventory, contact information, etc)? Performing a calculation? Graphs?
  2. How often do you use it a day? And is it just repeated use (maybe same problem, different data set)? Or solving different problems entirely?
  3. How many Excel spreadsheets do you share with coworkers or groups? How do you share it (just passing around files, or a network drive, a versioning system, Sharepoint, etc.)?
  4. If you're working with a set of data, is that data ultimately stored in Excel? Or do you import it or copy it in from somewhere else?
  5. Have you used a spreadsheet that had "macros" or scripts running on it? If so, what did the script do within the spreadsheet?
  6. If a particular spreadsheet were to completely disappear, how critical would that be to business function?
  7. If you had to choose, what would you say is Excel's best feature? And the one you couldn't live without? And what would be its worst?

Thanks for your time.

#3942, posted at 2012-01-13 02:37:41 in Look down, look down...