Excel is the best app in the office package IMO. I've delved deep into the functionality of it and it's quite powerful if you know what you're doing. In my last job I was in cost control, managing over 500k in retail inventory at a resort.... If it were not for the VLOOKUP command I would have been completly hosed. Pulling data from 4 systems to get an end result of 2 columns, item # and count #. But, if you really have no use for it, and just want to play around with it... I don't really think you'll like it that much! Getting paid to use excel is worlds better P.S. If you're a neat freak on your ocmputer with nameing conventions and such, you can loose days in excel.