Conclusion

Microsoft® Excel® is clearly a resource that can be used in many careers, and is valuable for professional and personal purposes. This textbook has focused on introducing the fundamental skills necessary to get you started in using Excel and to a solid intermediate level of proficiency, confidence, and comfort using the program.

While this content refers to Microsoft® Excel® current full-installation versions, the skills you learn and practice here are also consistent with open-source and other variations of spreadsheet programs, like those in Google, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, etc. You can also scale your work on Excel to use the lighter versions with some of what you learned and practiced here.

There is absolutely tons more to learn for you to move past intermediate-level workplace skills to more advanced industry-specific skills, business informatics management, complex data analysis and modeling, interpreting and manipulating content from massive databases, etc. YouTube and other videos can give you insights, as well as other courses, books and articles. Be sure to check out Creative Commons for additional free courses, modules, practice exercises, and textbook content to help you out.

This particular book may later add another chapter or two to help expand some of this know-how on an introductory level. However, for now, this current content should easily prepare you for academic and workplace needs in entry-level to intermediate-level positions, in your own personal and entrepreneurial work, for geekery round-table-with-popcorn discussions (yes there ARE Excel-loving geeks out here!), etc.

ALSO, if you have constructive comments, suggestions of additional free links and info for learners, attributions I may have inadvertently missed (or messed-up) noting, and even how this content may have helped you out, please don’t hesitate to let me know at ljbtrainings@gmail.com.

Signing off!