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It is nice to think that your next or current employer should be using Microsoft's 2007 Office package. But, this is the real world. Additional Article Information: =============================== 751 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: 2008-09-24 11:24:00 Written By: Joe Cleland Copyright: 2008 Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For more free-reprint articles by Joe Cleland, please visit: http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/joe-cleland.html ============================================= Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters: ============================================= If you use this article on your website or in your ezine, We Want To Know About It. 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Small business owners and corporations both are struggling in a tightening market, and as profit margins are stressed, people have to look to the bottom line to see what exactly is a must buy in their business and what is not. For example, with the obscenely high gasoline prices that workers are feeling at home, business owners are facing it too, but on a much larger scale. Consider the stress in your own home budget and then consider what it would be like against a much larger budget. Fuel prices are the single commodity that most strongly influences the price of everything else in the marketplace, from food to clothing, building supplies to finished goods. Consider this. The economy started to struggle towards the end of 2006. Whose fault was it? In the end, it does not matter whose fault it was. It is an economic reality for all businesses to consider. Higher fuel costs and lower profit margins are pushing businesses of all sizes to trim their operating costs, and one of the first budget items to be delayed will certainly be a software upgrade. This new economic reality that you are facing at home with your home budget, is also affecting small employers and major corporations, and in the end, it is stressing Microsofts own bottom line as fewer companies are upgrading to Office 2007, despite its many improvements. If you need to prepare for todays job market, then you would be wise to consider strongly to get acquainted with Microsoft Excel 2003. All you have to do to realize that this would be a good move is to look at the lackluster sales at Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007. But realistically, getting acquainted will not be enough of an education to help you to get that job, if that job actually requires you to use Excel 2003 everyday. A ten-minute quick study is not enough to enable you to compete with other workers for a position at a company, where Microsoft Excel 2003 is an integral part of their business processes. Going forward in the modern economy, one must be willing to train and retrain for the positions of today and tomorrow. It is true that our parents and grandparents may have held the same job from marriage to retirement. But few of us, in this day and age, will have the same experience. Our modern economy is driven less by the corporation and more by the small businessperson. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), 60-80% of all new jobs created in todays marketplace are created by small businesses, with fewer than 500 employees. The SBA also said that 99.7% of all current employers in the United States are small companies, by the same definition. Given the fact that the modern U.S. economy is so reliant upon the small business organization, it stands to reason that in order to ensure our employability in the marketplace, we need to stay current with the needs of small business owners everywhere. There is hardly a business anymore that does not expect its employees to have some basic computing knowledge. In factories, computers power the manufacturing equipment. In restaurants, computers power the food ordering systems. Although these two environments really do not rely on Microsoft Excel on the front side of the business, 2003 MS Excel and 2007 MS Excel are essential back-office applications for nearly every business in the country. Learning to use 2003 Microsoft Excel is not something that will require a really high IQ. If you have a computer at home, with which you can browse the Internet, then chances are that you will have the basic understanding required to quickly understand and realize the power and ease-of-use of 2003 Excel, even 2007 Excel. In fact, I will go out on a limb. If you are reading this article right now, then you have the prerequisite knowledge to start learning how to use 2003 MS Excel right away. All you need at this point is a good tutorial program to help show you how to use this important business application. --------------------------------------------------------------------- My name is Joe Cleland, and I work with K Alliance, LLC. 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