I was wondering how Manish, my MIS guru would feel in the situation I was in for a lot of my time today… When Manish used to work on Excel, he would never EVER use the mouse.. he would remember all the shortcuts… and we could hear his keyboard keys clicking in perfect harmony for most of the day…. and I would never feel any less amazed at how and what he would do to make excel work like magic…I owe a lot of my excel skills to him… and I see him getting a lot of accolades with his amazing data analysis skills… I learnt how powerful a tool is EXCEL…

and today… I was doing a Knowledge Transfer to someone who has spent a good 7 years in the industry… and had no clue, absolutely no clue to how excel works… even the smallest of things like selecting cells and copying and pasting information… phew… and I was to pass on my Pivot and Data generation skill on that 10MB, 15000 row excel sheet to the person… I struggled with filters, cell selection, moving around in different worksheets on the same file and what not !!! I could not believe I was in that situation…

A true test of patience it was today… and I know its not yet over… there is more to come, because I have a feeling that as soon as I leave the supervision part, the data is going to be messed up !!!

Phew… Uncle God… you listening right? This is critical… I have worked hard on that data and brought it to look like information… cannot afford to lose it…

anyway… back to Excel… and sea of cells…

Ta Tu…