Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures

Preface

I coined the phrase Either you work Excel, or it works you! over a decade ago to describe how the average user gets pushed around when building and using spreadsheets. Even advanced Excel users can fall prey to what I call the death by a thousand cuts experience, where tasks are accomplished slightly inefficiently or in a repetitive fashion. The cumulative effect of both is that you accomplish less, maybe think Excel is too hard, or perhaps tell yourself you’re not smart enough to use spreadsheets. I’ve heard it all over the years, and so I have included numerous automation and productivity tips in this book to dispel all of those myths and issues.

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