The final leg of the competition was held in San Diego, California, where the 15-year-old Rebecca Rickwood of Cambridgeshire, England, racked up a perfect score of 100 per cent following timed tests using Excel 2007. Having been awarded with $US5000 in prize money, she can now afford to upgrade to Office 2010 41 times. [BBC via TechRadar]
Gabriel
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 9:49 AMWhat does this actually involve doing?
villainsoft
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:01 AMAs an avid excel enthusiast, why was i not aware of this?
I demand a rematch!
Aaron
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:42 AM=IF(“villainsoft comment”>”agree”,”+1″,” “)
Stephen
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 10:25 AMAs someone who shouted his excitement to the world when he heard that Excel was finally expanding to over 1 million rows, how did I not get invited to enter this?
jamin
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:04 AMWhy aren’t they using the latest version?
Ashley
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:40 AMLikely because more people would enter and have had long enough to be fully up to date on how to use excel 2007 compared to 2010.
light487
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 12:31 PM“Honestly, I don’t know what’s more about this story” – FIXED!
light487
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 12:32 PMOh dear.. I completely failed there.. eh.. I used the good old HTML brackets to note my change.. :) oh well.. here is my intended post:
“Honestly, I don’t know what’s more ‘disturbing’ about this story” – FIXED!
Matthew
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 8:17 PMDid Jon Peltier know about this competition? Silly question.. there wouldn’t have -been- a competition, if he did.