There is no doubt that using an excel spreadsheet can be extremely useful. A spreadsheet can help you keep track of just about anything, from a daily budget, to a yearly calendar and mortgage calculator.
Many people go looking for excel online in the hopes of getting it for free. Unfortunately this is not possible. If you find a free Microsoft excel download you will find that is in fact a trial. If you want a free spreadsheet program why not try open office?
Open office is a reputable program and many excel templates can be used with an open office spreadsheet as well. Templates are a great idea for both the novice and experienced exel user. Templates are available from a number of sites for free. Most will work with both Microsoft excel 2003 and 2007. The main categories you can find free templates for are:
• Calendars and Schedules
• Invoice and Inventory
• Education
• Budgets
• Timesheets and HR
• Project Management
• Loan Calculators
• Mortgage Calculators
• Financial Statements
• Exercise/Health
• Quality Control and Statistics
You can also find templates for printing musical staffs and graph paper, a gas mileage log and calculator and even a blank Sudoku grid! There is almost no end the uses you can find for excel.
If you aren’t familiar with using excel there are some excellent tutorials available online that will walk you through its uses, from the basics to more complex applications. Following an excel tutorial will get you used to how the software works whichever version you are using. As with any software program the more you use it the easier it becomes.
Most people find that once they start using excel (or the open office equivalent) they wonder how they ever did without it. Whatever version you have or choose to use, the more you learn about its uses the more versatile it becomes. Excel is very simply a great way to get organized, stay organized and keep a track on things that are important to you.
