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What are Spreadsheets? Dear Mr.

Crane,

November 25, 2013

I am writing this letter to you to inform you on Microsoft Excel. This Program helps making and creating spreadsheets digitally. This program has things that we call rows and columns to help organize the whole page. The columns are the lines that go vertical (up and down) they are each labeled with letters, example A. The rows are the lines that go horizontal (side to side) these are labeled with numbers, example 1. In Between those lines (the white empty space) you have the little squares we call cells. In those cells is where you can enter you information. A cell is where a column and row intersect. The cell is then named after the column and row it is in, example A1. What would you use Excel for? That is an important question to ask. How it is better to use excel then word and what would you use it for. It a great program for doing calculations such as finding out an average, percentage or budget etc. There are three types of context you can enter in a cell. Number one titles/labels for example, January. The second thing to enter would be the data or the numbers example, $4,000. The third one is Formulas to add the data together example, =A2+C6. Then whatever data you had in those cells will be added together if in the same units for example dollars. In Word you dont have the tools to add those things together on its own. What more can you do with the information you entered. You can make a graph out of the information you just entered into you spreadsheet. How to do that? Its not too difficult here are the steps. First you need to enter all the information in a table for mate (what was explained to do before). Select all the cells that you want the information from to create your graph. After you are done that click F11 a bar graph will pop up on your screen with all you information. On the top you will see different such as color options. You now can choose any color you prefer. Then after that on the very far left you will see a tab that is called Change Chart Type. After you clicked on it a little window will pop up with different type of chart options for you to choose from. Some of those options maybe pie graph or a line graph or more dimensional graphs. After you selected on that you like hit the button on the bottom that says OK to make the changes. Today, (November 28, 2013) we started the spreadsheet assignment and I learned a couple new things. One of the things I is how to calculate the average. The formula was =AVERAGE (Letter#: Letter#). This helped me out a lot.

Sincerely your favorite student, Angelika

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