I always assume

That people who have held executive or office type positions have the same or more excel experience than i do.

I only learned how to get around more functionally in excel about 3 years ago. Xlookup has become my favorite go to fuction. I use that on nearly everything.

So now that I'm training someone from a desk position to do my job, I was surprised to see their experience with excel was far less than mine. And teaching excel functions is hard when someone has no experience at all.

So I'll have to quit humbling myself lol

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WindTherapy · 56-60, M

Decades ago I used to teach some basic Excel courses for the local community college. I used it in my work a bit as well. But I only used some of the more basic functions. It has evolved over the years and is a very powerful tool once you learn to harness it. I seldom work with numbers in my current roll so seldom use it today.

My daughter is working on her PhD and has some pretty extensive workbooks with charts and graphs. It's pretty impressive even though I don't know what all the data means. 😂

FoxyGoddess · 51-55, F

@WindTherapy my daughter also helped me learn quite a bit of excel as well!

It has come a long way since I first used it as well!