Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Let's excel at Excel.

I learned a LOT from our lessons in Excel. I'd never really done anything past making a simple chart in Excel, and i had no idea all of the things you can do to present and nicely organize information. Learning how to use all of the functions, and what sort of cell references to use for different situations will help me organize things for future work as well as for my own benefit. Using Excel to keep track of my grades and finances will help me keep track of my life, if i choose to do so. I may not end up using it in that way, but at least now i know it's an option.
I'm sure that the new knowledge i have accumulated will be very beneficial in my future at Trinity. If i am presented with a need for using Excel in another class, i feel confident that i will have no troubles figuring out what I need to do, and may even be able to aide another person who may not have taken the class.
Learning the ways that Excel can work in tandem with programs like Word and PowerPoint will also be beneficial knowledge. I never knew that you could take information straight from Excel and use it in another program. This will provide a direct way to transfer information, and make sure that the integrity of the data stays in tact. Being able to link Excel information to other programs and be able to manipulate the data without having to do anything in the other programs is a great and efficient way to create comprehensive and consistent information.
Yay!

No comments:

Post a Comment