Wednesday, May 30, 2007

MICROSOFT EXCEL.

We were given the task of playing around a bit with microsoft excel, this task brought me back to my high school days-not that they were that long ago, when for every maths assignment we had to use microsoft excel to produce the data required. Back in high school it actually was quite difficult sometimes though, as we were not spoon feed the information like we were for this tutorial task. We had to find out the formulas ourselves. FORMULAS now thats a scary, yet familiar word, this word is daunting to many of us, x+2x*A2. I mean what is the deal with these letters and numbers, how could they possible mean anything logical, it is beyond me. Going back to the tutorial task I found it to be quite a pleasnt task, I followed all the steps that were layed out for me and it turned out quite sucessful. Yet then I ran into an obstacle at the end, just when I thought I was home free. One of the end results was meant to equal negative yet it came up with positive, I tried to fix it yet it wouldn't alter itself. I found out then that many people in the class had this same problem aswell and no one was quite sure how to fix it, so i decided to just manually alter it instead of using the formula to get the answer. But besides this minor problem I had no other complications with microsoft excel, but still either way will try my hardest to not use it anytime soon.

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