It’s a Spreadsheet What’s a Spreadsheet

A spreadsheet is: An interactive computer program that organizes and analyzes data

What does it look like? Columns Rows Numbers

What does it do? Calculates Analyzes organizes

Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Accountants *Track income, and expenses *Generate reports *Cash Flow

Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Sales Personnel track expenses commissions

Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Scientists enter data from experiments perform accurate calculations create tables and graphs

Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Investors variables such as cost can be plugged into a spreadsheet to determine profitability In real estate he can plug in property cost, taxes and mortgage rate to determine final cost

Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Marketing Managers sort raw data by product making money losing money track business performance compare locations track competition

Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Students Track your grades Complete Science projects

Vocabulary Go to my website Open the file named: Spreadsheet Vocabulary Re-Name it: last first Excel vocab Find the definition that applies to spreadsheets

Short Instructional videos p 1 videos from Create a new blank workbook Explore the Excel user interface Move within worksheet cells Enter data Select and format data

Short Instructional videos p 2 videos from Copy and paste formatting and data Edit data Insert and resize columns Save in a new folder