A British teenager has been crowned the world champion of Microsoft Excel 2007. Rebecca Rickwood from Cambridgeshire won the title at the '2011 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office' in San Diego, California. Finalists were required to build a spreadsheet with Excel and present a specific set of data under timed conditions. Rickwood made no errors when she finished. She was the only non-Asian winner at the event after Japanese and Malaysian participants won for Word 2007 and Word 2010 respectively, a female student from Taiwan emerged victorious with PowerPoint 2007, and someone from China claimed the Excel 2010 title. GCSE student Rickwood, 15, beat 228,000 people from 57 countries to become world champion in her category. She scored highest in the UK when she took the qualifying exam last October. "It's amazing," she said. "I didn't think I'd win it. "There's a lot of Asians here and usually they're the ones who get all the top prizes, so I didn't think I would [win]." From Digital Spy
Considering how much modern companies love spreadsheets, she will get a good job when she leaves school
I agree but not simple MS Access databases. The best databases are the commercially developed ones which a lot of small businesses can't afford to they overuse spreadsheets instead. Access databases are just too basic.
