Intro to Excel

Standard 14) Use a spreadsheet program to create and format academic and business documents for the purposes of tabulating and calculating numerical and/or textual data.

Battleship!

Go to the following link to play a round of Battleship.

  

Spreadsheets!

We are going to start working with spreadsheets.  A spreadsheet is an arrangement of cells in columns and rows used to organize, analyze, calculate, and report information, usually in numerical form.

See and example of a spreadsheet below:

As you can see it looks like a "Battleship" board game with each cell having coordinates to determine the location.  Let's look at some of the terms associated with spreadsheets. 

Click on the power point to see the presentation "Anatomy of a Spreadsheet" to complete the worksheet.

On the back of the worksheet, create the invoice at the top on Excel and complete the worksheet.

What do you think?

How are some ways that spreadsheets can help you in business or in your personal life?

Review

Go to Quizlet.com to practice the terms from today's lesson.