Did the nekidapette get the job or not

[AllosaursRus]

Thanks for everyone's help. I really appreciate it. See, I don't like computer games really, of any kind, so I really don't find much to do with them 'fun'. lol I'll just have to grunt my way through it. It's just one of those things that I will just learn to use even if I don't like it, but that's ok. We all have those kinds of things and if I want to ever use the skills I DO have, I need to be able to learn the tools to make those skills applicable practically.

Again, thanks folks, for the ribbing too...*cough* thundley *cough*. 

I know whacha mean!!! I hate work period! I'd rather be fishin'! Seems I can't get away from it though. LOL

[Karin]

jtyangel, I use Excel about 80% of my day.  What you could do to give yourself practice is put your household financial stuff on it.  Recreate your checkbook on it, putting in the plus and minus formulas.  You could also build a spreadsheet, working off of receipts, to see where your money is going.  Give each item a classification, like Food, Clothing, Entertainment, Toiletries, etc. in a column and then sort them on that.  Add in a sub-total. 
You are always welcome to PM me if you get stuck.   

[diesel driver]

I have Office 2007 and have never used any of it. 

I feel dated.

I'm still using Word 2000, but the only thing I use it for is to print letters and envelopes....

I use Intuit Quickbooks for invoices and statements....

[diesel driver]

Don't be intimidated. Not one person in a thousand who uses Excel can take advantage of all its capabilities, nor do they need to. It's a massive program, with more nooks and crannies of specialized information crunching features than anyone can use. The fundamentals - creating spreadsheets, sorting data, using formulas, selecting data to display in various ways, techniques for moving data around the spreadsheet, and graphs / charts - are actually very simple and intuitive. You can probably learn them on your own with a few hours of trial and error, or have any college student who's in a hard sciences curriculum get you started. Just don't feel overwhelmed that you need to learn the whole enchilada, because no one does, and you have no need to do that.

My little brother knows and uses Excel a GREAT deal (he's the "computer guru" for the local county government), and I doubt even he knows all there is to know about Excel....