{"id":3425,"date":"2021-07-14T12:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:22:46","slug":"improve-your-excel-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/improve-your-excel-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Excel Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Estimators use Excel all the time but I am continuely amazed at the poor use of this tool. For example it is very easy to start a series of numbers and just highlight and click to have it continue to populate each cell. So if you solution to sequentially number a series is to go to the 2nd cell and have &#8220;1+A1&#8221; then it is past time to improve your Excel skills. Pivot tables are so easy and a great tool to create totals. It doesn&#8217;t take long to upgrade your Excel skillset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-09-at-10.30.56-AM-1024x441.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3429\" width=\"418\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-09-at-10.30.56-AM-1024x441.png 1024w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-09-at-10.30.56-AM-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-09-at-10.30.56-AM-768x331.png 768w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-09-at-10.30.56-AM-1536x662.png 1536w, https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-09-at-10.30.56-AM.png 1958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I encourage all Excel users to improve their skill level Excel by watching a few video tutorials. Even if you simply know where to look to find out how to build the right functions is a leap in the right direction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLmkaw6oRnRv8lAKbKbflJRqS-9wuYNWUw\">I found this playlist of videos on Youtube.<\/a> The videos start off a little easy so feel free to skip around.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Think about the time an estimating team spends in Excel and what a time savings can be achieved if things can be done faster and more accurately in Excel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimators use Excel all the time but I am continuely amazed at the poor use of this tool. For example it is very easy to start a series of numbers and just highlight and click to have it continue to populate each cell. So if&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-heavybid-stuff","category-try-new-things","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavybid.ewksol.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}