SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS 1
COMMON SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS Budgets, business and personal ** Payroll ** Inventory Invoices ** Balance sheets Profit-loss statements Income tax preparation Currency conversion Basically any use that requires calculations or charts ** - Illustrated in this lesson 2 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Budget Illustration 3 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Payroll illustration 4 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
INVOICE ILLUSTRATION 5
Common formulas All mathematical operations: sum (+), difference (-), multiply (*), divide (/) Average Max - highest Min - lowest Count – number of 6 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
SPREADSHEET ENHANCEMENTS Number styles, for example, accounting style Borders Cell formatting such as dates and percentages Highlighting using conditional formatting Charts and graphs Font formatting including size, color, and alignment 7 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Commonly-used chart types Column – usually compares >1 item vertically Line – can compare >1 item or items over time Pie – compares parts related to a whole, can ‘explode’ a slice for emphasis Bar - usually compares >1 item horizontally Area – similar to column but can show parts of a whole over time 8 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Illustrations of different chart types The charts on the next few slides are based upon the Projected Expenses from the Budget Illustration Slide 3. 9 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Sample column chart 10 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Sample line chart 11 Right-click in the chart area and you can change the chart type from column to line etc. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Sample pie chart 12 Pie charts should include data labels of percentages. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Sample bar chart 13 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.
Sample area chart 14 Area charts are most effective with >1 set of data, but this provides an example of what it looks like. Copyright © Texas Education Agency, All rights reserved.