Microsoft Excel has always confused me to no end. I work at Wegmans and my manager asked me to create a sales sheet one day using Microsoft Excel. He wanted me to add in sales from previous years and how they connect with hours used at the store. I literally sat and stared at the blank screen for an hour until I started to get to work. Eventually, with a little help from other employees, I was able to start and finish the sheet my manager wanted (which ended up taking me my whole eight hour shift). After I did that, I thought to myself, "thank God I went to school for teaching English and will never have to deal with putting numbers in Excel ever again." I guess I was wrong! I didn't realize how much you really can use Excel for in the classroom. Keeping phone numbers/ email addresses of all the parents of the students and also keeping grades are two great examples of Excel in the classroom. Luckily, I won't have to do any sort of extensive sales sheet again, but I know now to not be so scared of Microsoft Excel.
For the assignment we had to do for Excel, I chose the crossword puzzle. I always wondered how people created crossword puzzles! Does everyone use Excel to create them? I based my crossword puzzle on Halloween. It was very easy to make the boxes and questions/answers, but making it so the boxes all fit together perfectly was tricky. I had to draw one on a piece of paper first before I could do it on Excel. Is there any easier way to do that?
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