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If you are a small business entrepreneur, you should look into using Excel for many business tasks that you do on a day to day basis. Excel is a spread sheet application, but it can be used for much more than complicated calculations.  Here are some great tips on using Excel for your business.

Excel is not only a great spreadsheet application but is great for super simple databases.  For people that don’t have the time to create a legitimate database or would like to create a small database with limited fields, Excel is perfect.  Excel can sort and alphabetize many fields and you can easily analyze your sales data, inventory or other data fast and easy.

Excel is also great at small spreadsheets.  You don’t need to know lots of formulas or how to do multiple calculations, if you have a small spreadsheet that you would like to update quick and easy, Excel is perfect.  You can learn in 5 minutes multiple ways to do calculations on fields either subtracting, adding, multiplying or diving.  You can also set up macros which are tiny programs that automate your spreadsheet so you can keep it updated with a click of your mouse.  Excel is also integrated with MS Office which includes MS Word, so you easily move data from one application to the other.  If you are looking for a highly powerful business tool that is super easy to use, check out MS Excel.