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Electronic Spreadsheets are Great
Because of Six Things
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Fast
Reliable
Edit
Multitask (word and excel or excel and the
internet-portfolio)
5. Create a chart
6. Math modeling
Made Up of
Rows and Columns
• Intersect at a cell
• Columns go up and down
• Rows go across
Cells Contain
1. Characters (or labels)
2. Numbers
constants
dates
formulas
functions
Orders of Operations
• P-E-MD-A S
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
PRACTICE PROBLEMS
Practice with My Dear Aunt Sally.docx
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Sally.docx
Answers to Practice with My
Dear Aunt Sally
Keys On the Computer
+ - * / ^ ()
File Names
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1-255 characters
Spaces allowed
Case insensitive
Extensions allowed (___.xlsx)
Some special characters allowed
Some special characters not allowed
___.xls vrs ___.xlsx
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Smaller
Programmable
Harder to hide virus
Similar to xml
Defaults
• Calibri font face
• 11 points
• Margins
.75 top/bottom
.70 left/right
.30 header/footer
• Column widths – 8.43 points
• Orientation – portrait
• File name – Book1.xlsx
First Example
Math Modeling
Practice with Formulas
Practice with Formulas
Test 1
Test 2
Final
Total
Average
Difference
Weighted average
Al
80
90
90 What is Al's
total
What is Al's
average
What is the difference between Al's
average and the final
What is Al's average if the final is
worth two test scores
Amanda
70
70
80 What is
Amanda's
total
What is
Amanda's
average
What is the difference between
Amanda's average and the final
What is Amanda's average if the
final is worth two test scores
Total
What is the total of
test 1
What is the total of
test 2
What is the total of
the final
Average
What is the average of What is the average of What is the average
test 1
test 2
of the final
Difference
How much higher did How much higher did How much higher
Al score on test 1 then Al score on test 2 then did Al score on the
Amanda
Amanda
final then Amanda
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Answers to Practice with
Formulas
Misc Topics
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Text – left aligned
Numbers – right aligned
Control home/end
Type in a cell and it bleeds over
Edit the text edit box
Highlight a range and the upper left cell is
Clear rest are blue
Hit delete and the above deletes
More Misc
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Freezing worksheet titles
Spell check page
System date
Goal seek
Random Numbers
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=TRUNC(10*RAND()) between 0 and 9
=TRUNC(10*RAND())+1 between 1 and 10
=TRUNC(100*RAND()) between 0 and 99
=TRUNC(100*RAND())+1 between 1 and 100