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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (3688)	5/8/2010 9:19:53 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 220515

"How did you learn so much about Excel?" Over the years, I taught myself. We used to bring in a cost accountant from the accounting department to our new product (R&D) development teams at HP, but ONLY after the project was approved (sort of like how a startup gets angel funding.) I was a project leader in the 1980s and got tired of waiting for the accounting department to sign on to do new projects we were contemplating or doing manufacturing cost estimates for new projects by hand so I first started using Fortran in the very early 1980s to do it. Then I got Lotus123 when it came out. Later switched to Excel. Sometimes I get a sheet from someone else with something new on it so I can learn new tricks that way also.