After my mom began her own small business she asked me to do the recording and bookeeping for her. After taking a computer class in high school I became familiar with Microsoft's Excel and decided to use that for my recording. After setting up a new sheet for each of her clients I had to add all the categories I needed and imput all the formulas to make everything run smoothly.
Excel has taught me a lot of organization skills along with how to input numbers and formulas and I have been able to use it when putting together information for my classes throughout the rest of high school and now college. When others are drawing out graphs and data, I can easily input it and have the program make the graph for me. It also helps me with other Microsoft programs because many of them have similar characteristics and formatting techniques.
The challenges in doing this for my mom was making sure I didn't change or lose any of her information when using trial and error to figure things out. I also had to be careful that I linked the formulas and other information to the right boxes so that if I changed one thing it didn't change others. To avoid these problems I first had to make hard copies of all the information so that if something was wrong in the end I could go back and fix it or start over again. I learned that I like to figure things out by myself when doing this project and also that I enjoy working with formulas and numbers. Knowing that I enjoyed this kind of work made me rethink what I wanted to do with my college major and possible career.
2 comments:
I have always tried to figure out Excel but never really had the time to play with it to know what I was doing. I think it is great that you know this program. What would be a good way to use this program in the class room as a teacher and what is the best resourse to learn how to use Excel effectivley?
I have personally had teachers who will collect data from projects done in class and put the information in an excel file. They will then post this data and have the class use it to make graphs and other things like that. It is a good way to have your class organize data and put it in a place that is easy to read. I learned to use Excel through a course in high school. We used a book that had all of the microsoft programs in it and Im sure if you do not want to take a course in it that a book would be available for you to teach yourself.
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