


In most (not all) cases, investing much time on these common but repetitive operations doesn't yield proportional results. Even if you have practice in carrying out these activities and you are able to complete them relatively fast, those “5 minutes” that you spend almost every day inserting your company's name and details in all the Excel worksheets you send to clients/colleagues start adding up over time.

If you have (and perhaps even if you haven't), you have probably noticed that routine stuff such as formatting or inserting standard text usually take up a significant amount of time. Do you track what proportion of the time you spend working on Excel goes away in small and relatively unimportant, but repetitive, tasks?
