Well, unless you work with numbers, and that which goes along with them (adding them up, averaging them, making pretty pictures...er... I mean charts) then knowing about excel is probably not a top priority.
If you DO deal with numbers a lot, it can make your life easier.
Stick a number in each cell, top to bottom, and then at the bottom tell it to add (or average, or whatever stat function you want) and the result shows up in the bottom. Change a number in the list, the answer is automatically updated at the bottom.
Now you can point to that answer in yet another row of cells... and so on getting some sort of cascading effect... If you dont' need to do shit like that, well, what ever.
It is also a nice way to keep a list of things that need columns, and then be able to sort them by the columns...
There has got to be an "Excel for Dummies" book out there...
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Date: 2005-05-11 03:59 am (UTC)If you DO deal with numbers a lot, it can make your life easier.
Stick a number in each cell, top to bottom, and then at the bottom tell it to add (or average, or whatever stat function you want) and the result shows up in the bottom. Change a number in the list, the answer is automatically updated at the bottom.
Now you can point to that answer in yet another row of cells... and so on getting some sort of cascading effect... If you dont' need to do shit like that, well, what ever.
It is also a nice way to keep a list of things that need columns, and then be able to sort them by the columns...
There has got to be an "Excel for Dummies" book out there...