Start your Really Big List in a notebook, an Excel doc, or in a note on your phone, and keep it with you at all times.

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Like all employees, they may face challenges in some areas or tasks, but excel in others.

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Ask your office information-technology guru for a lesson in Excel or PowerPoint.

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Annotations: Users can add graphical notes to any item in Word, Excel or PowerPoint with a single tap.

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You can also create documents from within the browser, letting you work on a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote file directly in your storage space.

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You can also move your cursor by touching the spot on the screen where you want to insert a paragraph into a Word document or edit a formula in an Excel spreadsheet.

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While the Ribbon interface is, with time, more intuitive and a better guide to useful new features, complex tasks in PowerPoint, Excel, Word or Access require a combination of training and support throughout the migration process that an internal help desk may not be prepared to offer.

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But the only spreadsheet that anyone uses in any quantity in business or finance is indeed Excel.

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Or what if your sales staff could seamlessly export data from the CRM solution to Excel, make changes in Excel and have those changes automatically reflected back in CRM?

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In a day or two, someone was proficient and could get more done in Tableau than they could get done in Excel.

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