What Can You Do with Excel?

Although Excel is a full-featured program that offers everything from simple math calculations to complex and sophisticated operations, you might find that you start using Excel to solve a simple problem or create a project. From there, as your familiarity with Excel grows, you ll be likely to try using it for other operations as well. Here are just a few ideas of tasks you can try in Excel:

• Track accounts receivable and payable for your small business.

• Create data lists to store your customer information.

• Create and track sales projections and results.

• Create and maintain a donor list for your small nonprofit organization.

• Handle all your standard business documents, including income statements, balance sheets, cash-flow reports , and more.

• Import XML data as the basis for comparison reports.

• Develop budgets for the various departments in your company.

• Produce cost-analysis reports.

• Publish financial information to the Web.