Excel

Exploring the wonders of Excel has been a remarkable experience. Although my familiarity with the application was decent, I managed to expand my knowledge of the program with the newly offered tools and features. Excel 2007 offers several features that I was simply not aware of. The excel themes and styles allow the user to quickly and easily format the data with a peculiar design that matches the purpose of the spreasheet. This feature allows users to personalize worksheets with professional or standard looks. The most practical feature I learned from class however was the rich conditional formatting. This feature enhances the analytical features that excel as an application offers. Relationships, trends and exceptions are easily recognized and can be visibly formatted to be more noticable. Beyond multiple analytical features this application offers, I was surprised to see a security function for cells and worksheets. Changes within a worksheet can be either set to be tracked or easily prevented by granting access to limited users.