Tuesday 22 August 2017

Strengths And Weaknesses 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.

The first advantage with the package is the fact that it will produce consistent results. It is deterministic and will always produce the same results given the same data inputs to the same functions. It is not likely to give different outcomes unless in the event of human error or an error in a code written. As long as the code is written in the correct syntax and logical format, the results will be consistent all through.

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.

For good macro programmers excel has proven to be error free. Once the user has mastered the expertise needed the program will always respond with no errors. This means it is reliable and the outcomes can be relied upon for any decision making. This is one of the main goals of any software product.

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.

The last constraint is the debugging of the code. It is very hard to write a code and find that you have no errors. Checking for errors is quite time-consuming. The macros developed may need you to offer some technical assistance to those working with your code. The other challenge is the continual upgrading of the package after some time. Code written in the previous versions may not run in the newer versions and will need debugging.




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