The Grid-Paper Book That Still Feeds Companies 😎

Excel is not a shame, but a gateway to the analytical craft. In most offices, live accounting and decisions still start with simple tables: budgets, plans, requests, reports — everything goes into cells, like grain into bins.

Ask anyone at your workplace:
"Do you know Excel?" — and nine out of ten will nod.

Ask the same about BI and SQL — and the silence in response will be louder than fanfares. Excel remains the language in which business talks to numbers.

The problem is that nowadays everyone is shouting about neural networks and foreign stacks, and the apprentice is ashamed of their "grid-paper book" 🤷‍♀️

It seems like Excel is the last century, a notebook, not a tool. But in truth, it is a workhorse: accessible to almost everyone, bends to the task, carries plans and reports day after day. Through it, it's easiest to explain logic to business: the formula is visible, the number can be touched, the scenario can be changed without developers 💪

My idea for the first month of our journey is to reveal in posts what you need to make Excel such a faithful workhorse: data hygiene, basic functions, pivot tables, first dashboards. And in early February, I'll release a big article with an Excel learning plan — a map you can follow from zero to confident craft, without wandering through the course fair in vain.

Are you friends with Excel? And what still doesn't come easy or you just don't like about it? Write in the comments 👇

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