Intro to Spreadsheets

Learning Objectives

  • Introduce what datasets and spreadsheets are and what Excel is.
  • Talk about why we are using Excel for this class.
  • Be able to add new columns and rows to an existing spreadsheet.
  • Be able to add a new sheet to an existing spreadsheet.
  • Be able to use quick actions to do calculations.
  • Be able to set up a formula for a cell

Key Terminology

Here is a list of the key terms for this chapter broken down based on the page the term first appears on.

Getting Started with Excel

  1. dataset
  2. cell
  3. header row