Translations:Basic Excel Trainer/32/en

Disadvantages of using Excel only as a word processor include:

  • inefficiencies when changes to the data occur
    • unless the summary table data are linked to the underpinning dataset, changes in this dataset means that the table data must be manually updated
    • it is very easy to forget to do this, or to make transcription errors
    • if there are many tables in a report, or if changes to the dataset occur frequently, updating the tables can be very time-consuming
  • word processors are generally better at word processing than are spreadsheet programs.