Excel

You mean there are books for EXCEL? It is not that hard and there are some pretty good help pages. I must admit, it can get pretty complicated and unless you know what you want to do, you have no idea how much it can do. I have downloaded other people's spreadsheets - the more complicate the better and I have torn them apart command by command to understand what they are doing. I then write up my own little user's guide in my ow words. I have seen some of the things on TV that teach this stuff and I must admit, I don't have the patience, I am a jump in and do it. I am also too cheap to buy a book.

When I was in college (I graduated in 1996) I learned Word Perfect and DBase. These were already obselete by the time I graduated and I got my first job in the fall of '96. I learned Excel on my own at my first job. It is pretty user-friendly but I am also pretty good at figuring computer programs out.

I asked questions of friends, also I used the help button/link that is provided in the program. it is a great teaching tool. Also just getting into the program and playing with it helps a lot also.

I learned excel all by myself. I bought a book about Excel and partly learned from it. Most of the time I learned from the Help section of Excel itself. I think that there are people who are inclined to computer technology and they easily learn by intution. Just like me, I am happy that whenever there is new application out in the market I could easily learn it especially if the application has user-friendly interface.