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How Excel Can Ensure Accuracy Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet for analysis and development of tools that provides

the tools necessary to manage critical business data and make the most of your information. Excel gives you the tools to easily access, process, analyze, share and display the information you need to run your business. Excel can be used to create spreadsheets and wages, generating invoices, tracking actions and help complete the list of inventory control, etc. By learning more about Microsoft Excel and utilizing the most basic features of Excel, you can better manage, analyze and share your data. Clearly, preparing spreadsheets can be extremely timeconsuming and full of opportunity for human error. In fact, when solving complex and repetitive mathematical calculations, manual calculations promote risks of potential human error. However, with Excel, the problems which possibly arise from the old manual way of calculating can be avoided. Below are a few of the commonly used features in Excel that promote productivity and efficiency : 1. Formulas Removing the element of human error from manual calculations is an important advantage provided by programming an Excel spreadsheet to perform automated calculations using simple or sophisticated formulas. Formulas such as sum, count and average will ensure your totals are automatically updated whenever the data is changed.

2. Linking Cells

When information flows through to several different places within Excel, there is no need to manually enter that information multiple times. By linking cells in Microsoft Excel, you can update one cell and have the changes applied to multiple cells. This is another great way to human error and save on

processing time.

3. Macros

If you perform a task repeatedly in Excel, you can automate the task with a macro. A macro is a series of commands and functions that are stored within Excel and can be run whenever you need to perform the task.

In conclusion, no matter what your data processing needs are, Excels ease of use and its power and flexibility for analyzing and sharing information surely provides a way to facilitate your tasks. A key benefit the software has to offer is accuracy. Remeber, humans, by nature, make mistakes. Excel, by nature, does not.

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