What is Excel?
Microsoft Excel is a program to perform all kinds of calculations.
It comes incorporated in the Microsoft Office package.
Excel has its field of action more recognized in companies for ease of work in finance, organizing data etc.
But I assure you that in your daily life you can also use Excel to organize your data, budgets, schedules, etc.
Even if you have a very basic knowledge of this tool, you can take advantage of your day to day.
What can you do with Excel in your daily life?
Who says that a family, or you can not take your data as a company?
Excel is a good option to take into account in your day to day, and you can use it in different ways, for example, to:
Control household expenses on a daily, monthly, annual basis.
Identify the types of expenses and estimate what you spend on electricity, telephone, food, travel, etc.
Keep track of your bank account.
Analyze mortgages, loans, credit cards.
Control your savings for retirement.
Set all invoices to be paid, to have forecasts.
Create a budget of expenses and estimated income in the month, year and control their deviations.
Have a list of contacts with their names, phone numbers, addresses, birthdays ,.
Make a list of emergency phones to leave stuck in the refrigerator.
Manage your collections of books, music, movies.
Aim what you have to buy in the super.
Monitor what you have in the cupboard, even if you dare, control the expiration.
Take control of a diet
Record your weight according to a diet.
Have a schedule of family activities.
Shifts cleaning house, washing dishes ... etc ...
Examine the qualifications of your children's school
Organize an event such as a wedding, guest lists, list of locations on tables, schedules of party activities, list of chosen music, gift lists etc.
What comes to mind…
As you see in the day to day Excel also helps you.
In addition, it will allow you to analyze all the information that you are incorporating with different types of filters and calculations.
You will even have at your disposal recommended graphics according to the information you enter.
What can you do with Excel in the day to day of your business?
This is where Excel stands out much more.
If you have a business or a project, Excel will help you sort your information, analyze data or keep accounts clear, using simple formulas or complicate them as much as you need.
Control the income and expenses of the company on a daily, monthly, annual basis.
Codify the different types of income and expenses to analyze detailed information about them.
Generate updatable price lists.
Carry VAT books Sales and purchases.
Have a database of customers and suppliers.
Carry a catalog of articles with all their characteristics including images of them.
Analyze sales by customers, articles, sectors, provinces, sellers etcc. It all depends on the data you report.
Reconciliations of bank accounts.
Loan control
Quota calculations
Set all invoices to be paid and receivable, to have forecasts.
Closing of cash form.
Cashflow control.
Budgets for customers.
Budget control of your company.
Salary settlement.
Issuance of collection receipts.
Inventory control.
A long etc ...
Summary of what you can do with Excel
Whether you are a domestic user or use Excel professionally, this tool provides you with a series of options that you can take advantage of and adapt to your level and needs.
The main functions of Excel:
Organize the data, whether numeric or text, in sheets or calculation books.
Apply formats to see the data in contexts that help you make decisions.
Sort the information the way you need it.
Perform searches within the data you enter.
Automatically analyze the notes, with predesigned formats and that will suggest according to the type of data loaded.
Apply various calculation functions from simple sums to everything complicated that you want to do.
Use automated bars, colors and icons to highlight trends and patterns in your data.
Graph the data very easily, since Excel can recommend the diagrams and graphs that best suit your possible analysis.
Share the spreadsheets in the cloud, with collaborators, contacts, interested parties, etc., facilitating the work together.
As you can see, this application can help you organize and control your data in many ways.
Do you dare to try Excel in your daily life, in your business or at home?