Much of the World's data can be organized into tables
of information, both textual and numerical, providing a convenient structure
for understanding it. Microsoft Excel provides an easy way to organize
and manipulate such tables. In addition, it provides tools for analyzing
data, generating new information from it, and displaying it with
various types of graphs.
There are many, many more capabilities built-in to Excel than are described
in these documents.
If you know what else you want to do, you may find it by searching through
the Excel
help system.
If you just want to get more ideas for how to use Excel, there are many
good tutorial books available in the libraries and
from bookstores.
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This tutorial covers the fundamentals of using Excel:
selecting data, formatting it, editing it, and calculating with
it. |
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This tutorial looks at some common data analysis applications of Excel. It covers Importing Text Data, Linear Data Fitting, and Solutions of Equations. |
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This tutorial demonstrates various ways that Excel
can be used to handle grading, in particular as an adjunct to the
online Blackboard CourseInfo system. Although specific to this one
topic, it provides a good example of an Excel application. |
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This tutorial explains the fundamentals of using Excel
to graph data. It uses data produced by the "Grading with Blackboard
and Excel" tutorial, but can be used independently. |
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This tutorial provides examples of how Excel can be
used to create data collection templates that might be used in a
classroom laboratory. |
