Excel

I have definitely learned a lot throughout our time working with Microsoft Excel. I had previously used Excel in some of my high school computer classes and therefore knew how to perform many of the common tasks in Excel. However, over the past couple weeks I have learned many more useful ways of working in Excel. I have become familiar with terms such as running balance, absolute cell references, and relative cell references. I have also learned how to use conditional formatting and new functions such as the IF, MODE, and STDEV functions, which I had never used before. Excel is a program that is useful for many purposes and settings. As a matter of fact, I am currently using it for a report for my archaeology class. Excel is not only useful in academic settings for creating tables of information or calculating totals, averages, and percentages, etc. it is also useful for everyday tasks. Excel provides a variety of templates that allow you to determine things such as your personal monthly budget, travel expense reports, and even the cost of your wedding! Now that I have learned more about Excel, I might use it for creating comparison tables, calculating my income and expenses, or determining a payment plan for a new car.