Excel Project

The Excel Project was a very interesting project. It had great benefits to applying what we learned in the real world. Overall this project gave me skills that I will be able to apply for the rest of my time using Excel in an business environment. Although Excel is an, at times, confusing program the Excel scavenger hunt really helped in learning the tools necessary for completing this project.

In the project I learned how to do a multitude of things. Things such as fitting the cells, centering the cells, adding columns and so much more. As the project progressed it definitely got harder but with a couple of tricky things I really had to pay attention for. In this program the details really matter. The one thing that really through me off was remembering to format the cells appropriately, whether that be number, currency, percent, etc.

One of the tasks that I found most difficult was the percent increase heart rate. I figured out what I thought was the formula but for some reason  it didn't work. I worked at the formula several times until I realized that I was forgetting one small detail, that the format had to be as a percentage. This just reiterated how important it is for you to pay attention to even the smallest details when working Excel.

My favorite part of this project was learning how to make the Excel page print on one page in width, that was something I have had issues with in the past and I will definitely find useful in the future.

Overall this was a great project, with useful and applicable knowledge gained!

Screen shot of  my Average Increase Pivot table!