Many people are simply unwilling to navigate away from the home tab to go looking for interesting features & capabilities.Some people feared they wouldn’t be able to change it back if they didn’t like the result Many people are hesitant to create / insert new features, even a chart.Many people aren’t familiar with the variety of data analysis features that Excel has to offer.Of course several patterns and themes were observed, but here are a few that caught my interest and really resonated with me and with several others on the team:
We went in small groups to someone’s work environment (whether that was a large corporation, a small business, or even a home office), watched them use Excel, and talked with them a bit about what they were doing. This blog post is brought to you by Chad Rothschiller a Program Manager on the Excel team.Īs part of our planning work at the beginning of the Office 2013 project, we (the Excel team) participated in several customer visits.
