# Excel help please **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [April 17, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849 "2006-04-17T03:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sebus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sebus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/1 "2006-04-17T03:37:31Z")
anyone here use excel at work and know what the fastest way to learn it would be ? video training recommendations, books ? ---
**Author:** ![MTsoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/2 "2006-04-17T04:21:01Z")
There isn’t really any skill involved. It’s basically putting numbers into a cell, dragging it to make more, using a few commands (by looking up in the Help section) for dynamic stuff. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/3 "2006-04-17T04:57:36Z")
it’s pretty easy, but the easiest way of learning, i guess, is to use excel frequently ---
**Author:** ![Butters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Butters](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Butters)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/4 "2006-04-17T11:00:39Z")
There’s a crap load of forumlas and stuff tho, there’s some kind of glossary or something built into the app I think… ---
**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 12:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/5 "2006-04-17T12:41:03Z")
What about VB? Gotta know that if you wanna make some groovy stuff in excel, I made tic tac toe once 😛 ---
**Author:** ![simplistik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/simplistik/32/7747_2.png) [@simplistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/simplistik)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/6 "2006-04-17T12:58:00Z")
What are you tryin to do? Unfortunately I have to handle it often ☹ ---
**Author:** ![skOOb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@skOOb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/skOOb)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/7 "2006-04-17T12:59:12Z")
I just hit F1 in excel when I need to learn something. That would be your best bet. If you want to start gettin ‘groovy’ with it, I would suggest learning the VB part of it like seb says…and searching the web for “groovy excel shortcuts” ---
**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/8 "2006-04-17T13:11:07Z")
What is it you wanna create in excel? ---
**Author:** ![sebus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sebus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/9 "2006-04-17T13:55:00Z")
well my wife got a great job at an insurance company where she will be using Excel. For several weeks they are training her in Excel but she would like to learn it on her own time also since she never used Excel before. ---
**Author:** ![hl1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hl1/32/849_2.png) [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/10 "2006-04-17T13:59:17Z")
Open it up and play around with it. I had never opened Access and had hardly used Excel for anything more than a simple graph for a science project or two, however, I took a test to get out of my tech credit for high school (the credit is for a class that basically teaches you office/windows). I got a 97% on excel. Just open it up and play around 😃 ---
**Author:** ![simplistik](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/simplistik/32/7747_2.png) [@simplistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/simplistik)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/excel-help-please/185849/11 "2006-04-17T15:13:43Z")
As always I’d recommend Lynda video tutorials [http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=78](http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=78) I’d also recommend TotalTraining… but I think they only do creative programs… at least as far as I can remember.