Saturday 19 August 2017

Advantages And Disadvantages Of MS Excel Programming

By Kathleen Kennedy


MS products are the most widespread software products in the various homes and offices today. They are the key programs that facilitate various office tasks such as document preparation, presentations, among other tasks. They are simple programs and highly customized. One can easily train on how to use them without much struggle. The strengths and weaknesses of MS excel programming are discussed below.

This application is a part of main program Microsoft office, and it is customized to perform various mathematical analysis and data entry. They can perform multiple data analysis including graphs and chart generation, sorting and grading. The program, however, has some strengths and weakness though the term is relative to the context of operations and expertise of the operator. The level of strengths and weakness will be significantly low depending on the training and experience.

Some advantages of package are the fact that it gives constant execution of data. Once a function is defined, and the input determined the outcome will always show consistency. Unless for human error the results produced show a consistency all through. This is a desirable feature, especially when dealing with data that is consistent with nature.

The other advantage is that the program performs execution faster. This is relative to human speed. Once the program is fed with the correct values and served with the required functions, it will perform calculations very fast and produce accurate results. This is a desired feature that saves time and improves productivity of the employees. The programming is done through a visual basic programming language.

The package also offers a good ground for minimal errors especially for those who are good in macro programming. These people can write code in the visual basic language and run them without much hustle especially if they have written correct code following the right language syntax and logic.

The few disadvantages or rather constraints with the use of the database are the fact that it requires you to have learned how to write code in basic visual language or simply have programming knowledge. This is one of the languages used to write code for performing some various tasks on a basic visual platform. However, the language is not hard to learn and thus macro programming is common.

The other constraint with the software is the fact that it does not have a feature that you can transfer the whole program coded to another machine. In other words no stand-alone excel or visual basic program. For you to import a program, you have to rewrite the code in another machine.

Lastly, there is a tendency by the company to upgrade as years goes by and in the process develop newer versions of the excel program. Although they try to keep a good link with the previous versions, at times, the previous versions may need you to do some changes to your code for it to run. All the same debugging is not an exception here since errors are common. If you write a macro, you need to provide technical assistance to those accessing your work.




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