An experience with Excel...

Microsoft Excel was a mystery to me before this class, even though it turned out that I knew more and could do more with Excel than I originally thought I could I was still "in the dark." Then of course Ms. Belisle showed me the light, after about four or five weeks of tutelage, on this strange spread sheet software. I learned many things about Excel that I could definitely see myself using in the future. Such thing as how to put together absolute and relative cell references in order to compute just about any information (currency conversions, simple/complex calculations) with relative ease, how to "freeze" the spread sheet so you could browse large amounts of information, and how to make the spread sheet presentable by adding color, refined title founts, and other smooth looking attributes. All of these things previously listed I could see my self continually using (especially the equations and color formatting) for future school projects (perhaps accounting and economics) and other presentations (like any anthropological presentations that require the calculation of demographic data). Excel is extremely useful in the academic and business world because it allows one individual to manage a massive amount of information and make it presentable. I could see Accounting and Financial firms using this software to present data on company profits or company auditing and I could also see the academic world using this as a tool to display a grade distributions at a particular school or university in a presentable way. Even though Excel can seem like a mountain to conquer when you first experience it, once you get to know its intricacies and details it proves to be an invaluable tool to your presentation and data manipulating exploits.

Go from chaos to order in a snap with Microsoft Excel!