Monday, March 2, 2009

Excel in Real-Life


We've been using Excel with graphing and formula tools in the computer lab. Please find an adult (it could be a parent, babysitter, neighbor, or someone else) that uses Excel for either their work or at home and report back to the class the way that this person uses this software. It will be fun to see the way that people use this program outside of school! Please use your best writing skills and complete sentences or your comments will not be accepted. Happy interviewing!

19 comments:

Mrs. Pietraszewski said...

At school I use excel for students' report cards, the assignment check-off list, field trip forms, and to record and analyze data for our whole school like test scores. At home I use it to keep track of my bills and expenses. I asked Joe and he uses it everyday at work in huge documents with billions of numbers. I like my job better!

Mrs. Pietraszewski

Anonymous said...

No one in my family uses Excel so in a real life situation I would use Excel for organizing a budget. I would also use it for making a shopping list and figuring out how much money I am spending each time I go shopping. well that's what I would use it for. By the way, Mrs.Pietraszewski try making a blogging project for The Big Wave.


Jackson

Anonymous said...

My mom uses Excel to figer out who much our trip to Hawaii would cost.

~Zach

Anonymous said...

When I asked my mom if she uses excel and in what way do you use it she said she uses it all the time. She make graphs, rate analysias,and pie charts.I personally think that that sounds really boring,but I don't think she has a choice. I didn't know that you actully used excel in real life. Guess i was wrong!
Abby

Anonymous said...

My dad uses excel for making baseball lineups (batting order and positions)and charts
(orgnizing stuff.) I guess excel is useful.

Kellan

Anonymous said...

These are some ways that my dad uses Excel: He uses it to keep track of sales orders, couculates sales bugets, and he uses it to organize email lists. Those are some ways that my dad uses Excel.

~Hannah

Anonymous said...

When I asked my dad what he does at Excel he told me that he uses excel for investing for work and for personal stuff like taxes.




Mitchell

Anonymous said...

My dad uses exel for tracking finances, createing charts and graphs, and to track sceduals of projects. That really sounds boring but oh well!
-Katherine
Have you ever used Exel before?
I have. I use it when I want to make a suvey or something.

Anonymous said...

My dad uses Excel for keeping track of his budget at work and also for keeping trak of a large lists of items that he manages and reports against.


Michael

Anonymous said...

I asked three people if they used exel and two people said No but the one person who said yes uses exel for tracking budget flow that person is my dad and every time that I come into his Office I see him working on exel so the main thing he uses is exel and if I were working on exel I would use it for checking how much money I get each month so I see how it change through the year and then I would add up every months money and see how much I would get in one year, thats how I would use exel.
Hillary

Anonymous said...

My Mom uses Excel for gathering data for her upcoming trade shows, and for birthdays (my sister's sweet 16). Boring!!! But my mom barley uses excel. That's all for right now folks wait till next time for another edition of the Blog thing show!!!
-Tanner

Anonymous said...

My Dad uses Excell at work to know how old, where it is, and how fast a computer goes.

Camille

Anonymous said...

My mom uses excel for charts for when we go on trips. On excel she writes what each person need for the trip. My mom puts our names at the top then in that line she writes what we need on the trip.

-Molly

Anonymous said...

My sister uses excel to make graphs and to make tables for her homework.




Holden

Anonymous said...

I asked three people if they used exel and two people said No but the one person who said yes uses exel for tracking budget flow.That person is my dad and every time that I go into his office I see him working on exel. I think the main thing he uses is exel.If I were working on exel I would use it for checking how much money I get each month.I would see how it changes through the year.Then I would add up every months money and see how much I got in one year, thats how I would use exel.
Hillary

Anonymous said...

Sorry I'm late but my mom uses Excel all the time. Some things she uses it for keep track of cells she makes, and to calculate pricing for customers.
-Taylor :)

Anonymous said...

My dad uses Microsoft Excel to do work projects for Cingular.

Alex

Anonymous said...

My dad uses exel all the time for his work.

Joey

Anonymous said...

My parents don't use excel that much. My mom uses excel for when she needs to sort information and my dad uses it for financial reports.


-Lucy