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For MS Excel, how technical is technical?

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    For MS Excel, how technical is technical?

    During one of my interview, someone asked how technical is considered as technical when it comes to MS Excel. Just want to see what you guys think/feel. There is no right and wrong answer.

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    Re: For MS Excel, how technical is technical?

    I would ask for clarification on the question. How technical is the use of Excel? How technical was the development of the product by Microsoft? How technical is this one workbook I made back in High School that graphed how boring the class was? How technical is the phrase "MS Excel"?

    To quote Pres. Clinton, "It depends on what your defniniton of the word 'is' is."

    If the question is whether or not Excel is easy to use, then yes. It is easy to use. Many millions of people use it every day to store their data and do simple calculations. But there is a learning curve to Excel, as with anything. It is a many faceted tool that can accomplish amazing things, and that is without the use of VBA. Add scripting to the mix, and you can really get some work done. But taking Excel to these limits takes time to learn, motivation, a certain level of intelligence, creativity, and critical thinking.

    The word "Technical" has become just a buzz word to mean anything that requires a skill-set. The higher the level of skill required, the more "technical" a thing is. In that, Excel can be non-technical (ie storing letters and numbers), or very, very technical in that it can be used to create a fully functional workbook that can process large amounts of data and return usable information.

    So, in short "For MS Excel, how technical is technical?". The answer is 42.

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