Excel-ent

Microsoft Excel is my calculator of choice. All I have to do is plug numbers into cells and boom, I'm halfway done. I can add apples and oranges, subtract the bunnies from the monkeys, and determine at what age menopause will most probably hit for me based on a random survey of caucasian women over 55 from South Florida who now live in San Francisco averaged with the results of my female relatives who have reached the age of hot flashes and irritability. I don't use Excel for pivot tables or attempt to install fancy schmancy macros, but the program is very useful. Take for example the sorting of data. I can sort it by what MY priority is, and then send it to a colleague. He can then sort it by whatever variable is HIS priority, and then the data works for both of us. I can also give cells titles to explain the data, so that you don't have to look at the formula to determine what it is. Or ask me. A thousand times. In one day. Plus, I can add links to take you from one section of information to another. No scrolling or adding calculator required. Brilliant.