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University of South Dakota’s Tutorials
http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/
Internet 4 Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_excel.htm
Best Web Training.Com
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Tech Tutorials
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http://www.exceltip.com/excel_links.html
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David McRitchie's Excel Pages
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
The Excel Nexus
http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelLinks/cat/excel-education-templates-1.html
The Learning Center
http://www.tutorialusa.com/excel.html
Florida Gulf Coast University’s Technology Skills Orientation
http://www.fgcu.edu/support/office2000/excel/
BayCon Group Online Tutorial
http://www.baycongroup.com/el0.htm
Excel Help Page, Lacher CPA
http://lacher.com/toc.htm
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EXCELerators
How-to's for basic
& intermediate Excel maneuvers.
Grades
Spreadsheet Example
Microsoft Excel Online Home Page
Article
by Lorrie Jackson © 2004 Education World
Many educators -- even
those who are quite comfortable with most uses of computer technology --
avoid using Excel. They view the program, with its alien commands and odd
layouts, as incomprehensible -- more suited to number crunchers than to
classroom teachers. If you're one of those Excel-phobes, the helpful
reminders below might shed some light on Excel's apparent mysteries.
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Did you think that Excel was only useful for math and
accounting teachers? Think again! Excel's graph-paper-like
format allows it to be used for a variety of subject area
activities. Check out a few in the Education World
techtorial
EXCEL-lent
Activities Across the Grades. |
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Enlarge a cell to hold all required data.
Have you ever wondered how
you would ever fit the data you need to record in a single tiny cell?
Simply type all the required data, click Enter (or Return), and click the
cell again. Then go to Format > Cells > Alignment, choose Wrap Text,
and click OK.
Excel can rearrange data too.
To order data in an Excel
spreadsheet, highlight all the cells you want to put in a particular
order, click Data > Sort, click Ascending or Descending, and then click
OK. You can change the criteria Excel sorts by, and even undo your sort if
you like.
Resize columns with just a (double) click.
When using Excel, save time
by first typing in all the data. Then, double-click the lines between each
column to automatically resize the columns to fit the data.
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