Message #79844

[countrigal]

I use excel extensively in my job, though the rest of my co-workers use minimally.  I adapted an excel "program" to determine retired pay withholdings for claims we work, which requires look-up tables, embedded if statements, tons of hidden coding in the documents, which means that I have a fairly higher-than-normal skill level with excel.  Once I get these queries, statements, formulas, etc updated for each cost of living increase, then the rest of the workforce only has to know how to click on a cell, enter a date or data, and wait for the behind-the-scenes math to be done (working from mulitple source tables) and then take the answers from the Excel document to our awards program.  I happen to love Excel, only surpassed by my love of Access, for the functionality and depth of the program, while not requiring a HUGE amount of knowledge by the user to access that functionality.  I find both very intuitive.  But it may just be my mind....