Excel

I really enjoyed the entire excel unit over the last three weeks or so. Coming in to the class I had relatively no knowledge of how to use a spreadsheet to do different things. I knew that lots of different things, like formulas and functions, could be used to set up a running balance or budget but didn't necessarily know how to make it work for me. I probably could have sat at a computer for hours trying to learn everything on my own; however, with as much stuff as there is to know about excel i would have been just wasting my time. I never would have learned anything on my own. The thing that I really loved about excel is the absolute and relative cell references. I never knew that a simple drag of the mouse could allow you to drag the same formula to as many different cells as you need. Before I might have to type in each formula in each different cell but this allows me to make life so much easier. I also loved all the cell formatting as well as conditional formatting. This allows me to organize different sets of data that i might need and display them in a way that anyone can understand. I have already used this different things in my biology lab in which we are using spreadsheets to organize our data from our experiment. This has helped enormously making the excel sheet very easy. I also will use excel to keep a running balance for my checking account. I like that I wouldn't have to write it out and the computer automatically does the math for me. Overall this was a great unit and I learned more in this unit than I did anywhere else before.