Talk:Microsoft Office/Working with Formulas

Whether to merge the books
To merge these in their current state would possibly cause the focus of each to be lost. Excel would appear to display the beginnings of a very good "Beginners Guide". It displays a good broad approach to the subject. Each of the other books mentioned are very specialized in their subject content and are more suitable to the advanced Excel user. --09:56, 28 June 2007 Rhys (R.Wilson).

Don't do the merge! -- Tom As a teacher of office applications merging developer level stuff with a simple listing of just some of Excel's functionality would preclude me pointing learners at this book.

do the merge! --Tim

I do not believe it should be merged. The other wiki on excel (not the financial modelling) gives instructions for C++, while this page has a more "in excel" modification approach.

Object Financial Modelling is a buisiness thing. --68.149.31.252 03:39, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Maintain distinction between EXCEL usage and EXCEL-as-solutions-development-environment
whether or not roll up and merge together all available content on Excel is an issue worthy of debate; however, what concerns me is the need to explicitly identify whatever piece of content is either: (a) EXCEL usage or (b) EXCEL clever tricks or (c) MS Office automation or (d) EXCEL-as-solutions-development-environment...

perhaps, viewing it as a multi-volume set, with each major topic as the focus for a given volume...?

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Merging Excel tips into Excel will have to happen. But better than that is to expand the current section on Excel and then merge the Excel tips as content into the expanded Excel book. I have not need Excel for financial analysis. But looking at the title, i think its quite distinct. If all it does is to discuss Financial formulae in Excel, then i think it should be merged into a future expanded Excel book. - Muralidhar M S

dont merge the sections. financial modelling using Excel exists at the intersection of 2 major specialisations being IT (covering vanilla topic e.g "how to use Excel") and finance (being the financial modelling specialism). It is inappropriate to put this topic on the IT shelf exclusively. Rather have a link from the appropriate business and Excel wiki's to this topic.

Agreed

MS Excel is a tool. Like, a BUS can be used to carry people, carry cattles,carry equipments, etc. The basic guidence for running a bus is same but it needs drivers with specific experience to carry specific loads. A driver with experience in carrying equipments in logistics can't be expected to drive a bus full of school children, equally deftly. Yes one can learn in proper time, although !!!

Financial Modelling is an art, a process, that is being implemented through MS Excel.The implications, tricks and methods are vastly different & advanced here.This needs a special mention, a special treatment. Not all people will understand & be interested in Financial Modelling.

You learn Financial Modelling through MS excel not MS Excel through Financial Modelling.

Please Do not try to scare away people away from MS Excel applications.