British 'super geek' to compete in World Spreadsheet Championships

A self-confessed computer geek is off to Las Vegas - to represent Britain in the World Spreadsheet Championships.

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00:00My name is Ha Dang. I live in Scunthorpe but originally from Vietnam and I am the reigning

00:12UK champion in Microsoft Excel. I found out about the competition back in February when I attended

00:19the global Excel conference and I saw four competitors from last year's Vegas final

00:26battling it out. I thought I could give it a try. I was fascinated by how they were using

00:33Excel formulas to extract data from a grid and I felt that I should give it a try. And

00:41I signed up for the UK chapter of the Microsoft Excel Championship. We had, throughout the

00:47summer, we had three monthly battles to find the 32 finalists and we had the final event

00:56in London last week on the 5th of September and I was crowned the winner. I'm going to

01:02keep myself sharp for the final in Vegas this December and in the longer term I would like

01:08to keep improving my skills in Excel so that I can perform my duties better at work and

01:14to inspire the next generation of Excel users to join the community, join the competition

01:20competition and make us even more popular.