1. It’s a Spreadsheet What’s a Spreadsheet

2. A spreadsheet is: An interactive computer program that organizes and analyzes data

3. What does it look like? Columns Rows Numbers

4. What does it do? Calculates Analyzes organizes

5. Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Accountants *Track income, and expenses *Generate reports *Cash Flow

6. Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Sales Personnel track expenses commissions

7. Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Scientists enter data from experiments perform accurate calculations create tables and graphs

8. Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Investors variables such as cost can be plugged into a spreadsheet to determine profitability In real estate he can plug in property cost, taxes and mortgage rate to determine final cost

9. Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Marketing Managers sort raw data by product making money losing money track business performance compare locations track competition

10. Spreadsheets- Who uses them? Students Track your grades Complete Science projects

11. Vocabulary Go to my website Open the file named: Spreadsheet Vocabulary Re-Name it: last first Excel vocab Find the definition that applies to spreadsheets

12. Short Instructional videos p 1 videos from http://www.microsoft.com/mac Create a new blank workbook Explore the Excel user interface Move within worksheet cells Enter data Select and format data

13. Short Instructional videos p 2 videos from http://www.microsoft.com/mac Copy and paste formatting and data Edit data Insert and resize columns Save in a new folder