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Microsoft Excel now is one of the most widely accepted spreadsheet program anywhere in the world. The first version was in 1985. The current version is 2007 and soon to be released, 2010.

Excel has extensive graphing capabilities. There are several other spreadsheet programs on the market. If all you need is to do some simple formulas you may want to consider Open Office or Quattro Pro by WordPerfect, and there are others. Do a Google search for Excel clones. From my experience you will not find a more robust program as excel. If you need Macros, or to share data with other database programs you should be looking at Excel

Something that makes Excel Powerful is that it includes Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), a programming language based on Visual Basic which adds the ability to automate tasks in Excel. As you write Macro’s in Excel you are really writing in VBA.

MCSE stands for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. This is a certification provided by Microsoft and works across various Windows platforms. This is an IT professional course that carries 1-2 years of experience specifically in working with network based systems. The best part of MCSE certification is that you get the qualification directly from Microsoft, which is without a question, one of the leading software companies in the world today.

Role of the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

The role of the MCSE is to show clients owning a Windows network system how to plan and execute the Windows-based infrastructure that they need to fulfill their requirements. The engineer is responsible for installing the applications on the various systems that the client owns and configuring it so that it best meets the client’s needs. The engineer helps with the troubleshooting of these applications as well.