Re: Revised version: Advice on Developing a SMART Goal Tracking Template

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Jill Gallagher <jill -dot- gallagher -at- outlook -dot- com>
wrote:

Several tables exist for each quarter to allow us to record our goal
> projections for future quarters.We ended up with a Word document full of
> pages to scroll through with separate (invisible) tables for FY14 Q1, FY14
> Q2, etc.
> My question is, should this template be created in Word using tables (with
> borders) or possibly Excel to neatly leverage the separate worksheets per
> quarter?
>

Hi Jill,

I guess it all depends on whether these goal lists will stay in the file
format, or collected in a different format by the executives. The company I
work for has an in-house web application where we can free-form enter our
goal criteria, measurement, and colleague feedback. In our case, Excel
wouldn't work because cutting and pasting from Excel into a web form text
box is just a mess, if it works at all.

That said, I much prefer the apples-to-apples comparison that Excel allows.
After spending 20 years building complex Excel spreadsheets and apps, I've
grown quite fond of it.

Cheers,
-Tony
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