My name is Yvonne, and I live in Austin. I knew nothing about Excel at the first job I had after moving to Austin (law firm #1), and at my next job (software company), my boss introduced me to Excel a bit. I learned a great deal about Excel in a short period of time, and I built some complex workbooks. But I knew I only scratched the surface. Now at my current job (law firm #2, which I think is the keeper), I have used Excel to track attorneys’ hours, provide analysis, and solve lots of little problems. I have stolen quite a number of formulas, but I’ve also created a good deal from scratch (some pretty complex). I built a “database” for tracking hours using a series of VLOOKUPs to run all of the reports I need, and I have accounted for almost every variable, which took a good deal of time to work through, but the result is ease of report creation! I recently learned about the INDEX MATCH, INDEX MATCH MATCH formulas which have already easily solved one of the challenges I was having with a particular spreadsheet. Now I'm revising my database to replace the VLOOKUPs with INDEX MATCH, as well as some other newly learned formulas. It's been an Excel whirlwind for me in the last couple of months!