Last week Excel turned
30. As per wikipedia,
Microsoft released the
first version of Excel for the Macintosh on September 30, 1985
Let's celebrate 30
years of Excel by reliving your first memory of it.
I
will go first,
My first memory of
Excel is from 2004. I just finished my accounting degree and assisted my department in building a simple automated "Result Manager" using Excel 2007.
The current result was manual and many student had suffered from its status as repeated carried over courses in lower levels where still reported as "FAILED" at final year even when students had retaken and "PASSED" those courses. I wanted to help and ensure students are not delayed or denied NYSC so i decided to automate the current result, starting from scratch. This was when I first used Excel, fully.
I made a spreadsheet
with all the students details from Matric number to student names, courses and grades in details and worked on it all night. This was same year GLO started "mid night call promo" and most times when talking to my girlfriend at night for hours, while dozing off, I end up mumbling words like "CONCATENATE, VLOOKUP, IF, SUMIFS and bla bla bla...those words off-course got us "MATCHED". Her name is DUPE and I am DAPO. Collect like terms if you like.....
Thanks to her (and many other things), I got paid for the little assistance and had since been "locked up" with Excel. I have designed payrolls and created Excel based reports and dashboards using VBA by fetching data from SQL databases and other data sources. This love for Excel made my life sweeter as an applications/ERP consultant. Today, I implement the 3rd largest global ERP application "INFOR SUNSYSTEMS" and also provide deep training.
What about you? What was your earliest memory of Excel? Please share in the comments or send a mail to me at sorinola@findataconsulting.com.
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Be Excel-lent.
Oladapo Sorinola
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