Saturday, August 19, 2017

Strengths And Weaknesses Of MS Excel Programming

By Kathleen Kennedy


Use of Microsoft products has increased in the recent past making the software from that company the most popular in the world. Almost every office and home that has a computer use Microsoft software. The company has several modules for different tasks and categories. One of them is the Microsoft office which comes with several packages with it for different tasks such as word processing, mathematical data manipulation, data presentation and graphical data analysis. Some advantages and disadvantages of MS excel programming include.

MS excel is a mathematical data manipulation software with a good capacity of handling various statistical data manipulations. It also supports visual basic programming and development of macros. The programs developed can perform some various tasks and thus help in task customization apart from its original working processes. The exercise of programming is enabled via a platform that will provide where you can write code and execute.

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.

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.

With all that said a look at the weaknesses or rather constraints would be okay. However what is considered as a weakness here is not to mean is a problem as per say. The first constraint is the fact that one must be knowledgeable in basic visual programming for him or her to perform the task of writing the code. The language has its own rules and logic that are essential for designing any program for running macros.

Another constraint is that fact that the package has no stand-alone module that can be exported once developed on a given machine. This means there will be needed for rewriting of code for any migration. It makes it challenging to operate on various machines using the same code.

The last thing would be the constant upgrades that bring new versions. The code written in older versions may not run in the newer versions. This may need some debugging and technical support. The process of checking for errors may consume some time, especially for new users.




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