Some Thoughts on Excel

Every piece of knowledge that I have acquired in this class about Excel has been useful to me in other classes. For example, in chemistry lab, I am expected to make scatter plots from series of data. After the first day we learned about Excel, I already felt more conformable creating these graphs. Also, we must calculate means, sums, standard deviation, and utlilize various other formulas for each lab. I have become quite speedy at the process of inserting formulas and dragging them across a series of cells to spread them efficiently thanks to Computer Skills. I am aware that Excel is not only useful for labs, but also for other aspects of life. For instance, the running balance exercises we did are applicable to everyday life because they help to monitor expenses and to make sure that not too much money is spent at any given time. In the future, I am going to use Excel to take track of my expenses and to create a weekly schedule. It will be fast to type out the days of the week since I learned that upon typing one day, if you drag the box down a row, the subsequent days of the week will appear with no typing needed. I also enjoyed learning how to make Excel graphs look aesthetically pleasing by changing the borders, shadows, and color fill. Overall, I think our classes on Excel have been an especially important and useful aspect of this class.