Microsoft Excel

I haven't done a post in two classes but here's what we done so far: We talked about Microsoft Excel. Excel's a program for creating spreadsheets. The spreadsheet is divided into boxes called cells. Each cell has it's own name and can hold three types of data: text strings, values and formulas. Text strings are what they sound like, text. They are also any characters that are not numbers. Values are numbers. Excel is powerful because it can have formulas in cells that relate to other cells. If you update a value in the cell then the formula updates. This makes it really useful. Excel can do math if you type in formulas in the correct way. Each cell can be formatted. You can change: the size of a cell, the font size and style, the angle of the text, the number of decimal places in the numbers and much more.

We got an assignment to do using excel. We had to make a chart with our marks for first term and our goals of what average we want to get in the finals. Then using excel, we had to create a formula to tell us what we needed to get in second and third term to accomplish our goal.