Excelling at Excel

Although I have minimal Excel experience, my mother is a CPA and uses it endlessly and therefore encourages me to use it in order to manage my finances, keep lists, grades, etc. Thus far in my experience with Excel, I have found the ormulas to be most helpful as I am exceedingly bad at math and keeping track of numbers. I was unaware of all of the charts and headers and footers, I always just assumed Excel was simply rows and columns and there wasn't much you could do about it. I have already started using Excel to keep track of my grades in other classes and I'm sure I will only continue to like it as I continue to learn more about it and the plethora of things it can be used for.