From the course: Excel Spreadsheet Design: Extreme Makeover
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Why is spreadsheet design so important? - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel Spreadsheet Design: Extreme Makeover
Why is spreadsheet design so important?
- [Narrator] What on earth am I even looking at? Imagine having worked for three months on a spreadsheet, only to hear one of your stakeholders utter these eight deflating words, luckily or unluckily for me, I don't need to imagine it, I've been there. In the early thousands, I developed a whizzbang inventory management model, but my stakeholders didn't quite share my sentiment. Deep down, I knew that there was nothing wrong with the content, but the design of my spreadsheet, stank, big time, whilst this gut wrenching experience really hurt at the time, what a taught me is that spreadsheet development is just as much a creative process as it is a data crunching one. This is where an Excel extreme makeover can make all the difference. An Excel extreme makeover is heaps of fun, but it can take some time to get it right. So before we get too far into our journey, I'm sure you want to know why we should go to all this…
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