Excel is a foundational skill required in most business jobs. Take a look at monster.com, a job search website, and enter Excel as a search criteria. You will find the number of jobs that actively list Excel as a required job skill is very large. On one day in which 5,414 new jobs were posted, 2,157 had Excel listed as a requirement. That's 40% of the jobs listed, second only to the number requiring Word. Why do you think Excel skills are so important in the job market today?