1. Shiny: Improving IEP Meetings By Charles Yerkey (Left Click or press Right Arrow to advance slides)

2. A Quick Introduction to Excel Excel allows users to take large amounts of data and extract information from it. Excel uses charts and graphs to display information.

3. Cell Addressing Each cell in Excel has a unique letter number combination. Columns are determined by letters. Rows are given numeric values. An Active Cell will have a bold border around it. The Active Cell in the picture to the right is cell C11.

4. 31 TV’s Sold June Sales TV’s, VCR’s 10100110 Steps for Excel Data is collected and entered into the computer Data is organized Data is processed into a Chart Relevant data is displayed

5. Excel Functions Functions SUM Adds all selected Cells AVERAGE Averages all selected Cells COUNTIF Tracks the number of cells that meet a given criteria

6. Do it once Enter information and format the cells once then.. Copy to new sheet or Save as template

7. Formatting Excel allows uses to format text in a variety of ways Currency Percentage Date Numeric

8. Importing Files Types Excel can accept data in variety of formats including XML CSV Access Database Query Files Lotus 1-2-3 This will be important in future applications of this process

9. Exporting File Types Excel is not limited to saving in a proprietary Microsoft format. This is helpful when sharing information with others. Some of the formats include... XML Db 1-4 CSV HTML TXT And more

10. Ready to Try it? The tutorial will get you familiar with Excel. Good Luck Charles Yerkey