Excel Overview

When I was about 8 years old, my dad showed me how to add numbers on an excel spreadsheet. For about the next two weeks, it became my project to see just how high the numbers would go if I just kept adding the sum of my last equation to itself. It looked something like this:



Those two weeks were the time of my life! I loved adding those numbers and seeing how high they got. I even went so far as to actually memorize the sequence I had created (which went into the billions by the end of it)! It actually happened just because I spent so much time looking at it, not even because I intentionally meant to memorize it.

If only my 8 year old self could see my excel abilities now...

With how much I have learned about functions, charts, cell references and all the different kinds of formatting you can do with spreadsheets, I would have spent 24 hours a day just playing with all the numbers I had created and making them go higher then ever imagined! I would have been able to make them different styles or apply different themes to my spreadsheet that really would have made it stand out.

In the future, I plan to use excel to the best of its abilities whenever possible. I thoroughly enjoyed working with the program and all of its new artistic as well as functional qualities. At the moment I am planning to major in business so I am sure I will return to this program at some point in my career here at Trinity, as well as my career beyond the University in order to create spreadsheets to track sales, marketing quotas, and performance reports just like the ones we have already worked on in class. I cannot thank the class as well as our professor enough for teaching me all these wonderful tricks in Excel.