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Activity 1

Time Charts

Practice Activity

Technology Overview Being able to show your time spent on a project
in the form of a chart is an important skill. There are specialized software programs
that you can use to record time spent on a task, but a spreadsheet program can take
care of nearly everything you need to record and do any calculations for you.
Presenting the data on the worksheet can be a clear and easy way to see your data.
In this activity, you will use a spreadsheet program to make calculations.
Content Overview Working at Reading Treasures Bookstore is a great
deal of fun. Besides getting to see all the new titles as soon as they come out, you
also shelve books, run the register, help customers find or order books, clean, and
perform administrative tasks such as taking care of the paperwork for orders. In this
activity, you will fill out a timecard to show how you spent your time for a five-day
week.

TERMS

Formula An instruction Excel uses to calculate Series A list of sequential numbers, dates, times,
a number. or text.
Mathematical operators Symbols used in Standard column width The default number of
mathematical operations: + for addition, - for sub- characters that display in a column based on the
traction, * for multiplication, / for division, and ^ for default font.
exponentiation.
Order of mathematical operations The order
in which Excel performs the calculations specified in
a formula.

KEY CONCEPTS

Format Data Enter a Formula

■ Format data by selecting it and clicking the appro- ■ A formula is a worksheet instruction that performs
priate button on the Home tab (in Excel 2007) or a calculation.
the Formatting toolbar (in Excel 2003). ■ After you enter a formula into the cell, the answer
displays in the cell while the formula appears in the
formula bar when that cell is selected.
■ When creating formulas, you use cell references,
values, and mathematical operators.

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