Research why the features in Excel are important for business and personal use. Provide a list of at least three important features and why these are necessary. In your post, include any references that you used in your research. From a business perspective, what professions are most likely to require Excel? List at least two professions and justify your answer. From a personal perspective, are there Excel tasks that you can do equally and in Word or PowerPoint? Identify at least one task that you feel could be done in Word or PowerPoint. Explain why this task could also be done in another program in addition to Excel. Include the benefits and limitations of using another program for the task(s) you identified.

Answer and Explanation:

1) The three important features are:

Graphical representation of data-Data can be represented in the form of pie char,bar char,etc

Data Validation-Particular data type can be assigned to a column so that only that data type can be entered such as int,float and character

Aggregate Functions can be used such as count,sum,average,max,min,etc

2)Professions which require excel are:

Auditor-These people are brought into the frame of a accounting during a specific event or generally quarterly or annual

Accountant-Accountants require the excel very much for maintaining records and perform calculations quickly

Sales Manager-He may need to calculate the growth rate of the company in terms of sales for which he can use excel

3)Yes there are some tasks of excel which can be done in word or power-point.If used just to enter data in tabular format then word or power-point can be used to represent the data in tabular format.

Benefits:

Word and PowerPoint offer better multimedia support than excel

PowerPoint offers better chart choices than excel

Limitations

if there are any mathematical calculations then it is not possible in word or PowerPoint