for staff & management

If you’ve ever had to:

• Add up hours and minutes

• Format dates and currencies

• Split columns 

• Summarise a worksheet 

• Important and clean data 

• Extract data from a website, PDF, or Word document

• Calculate date ranges

• Prepare a monthly report based on a CSV

Stop! 

I know a manager whose laptop had to be replaced periodically because it had been dropped on concrete or fallen down the stairs. Oddly enough, these accidents seemed to coincide with the due date of his quarterly reports.

I know of another manager who spent the last Friday of every month copy-pasting numbers from one column to another, doing manually what would have taken 15 minutes if he had known the right formulas and how to apply them.

Then the question arises, if someone had shown him how to do it, would he have been able to remember the instructions from one month to the next? Even if he had made a detailed note of the instructions, would he have been able to find the note again when he needed it?

For those of us who do this kind of thing as a matter of routine, it’s easy. So why waste your time doing something you're not good at when, for as little as R50, you can attach the workbook to an email or a WhatsApp message, shoot it off to me, and  get it done properly, with no errors, nicely formatted.

Spare yourself the stress, anxiety, and frustration of doing manually what can be done automatically. 

Retain your sanity.