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6. Introducing Spreadsheets

How did people ever keep track of things before there were spreadsheets? A spreadsheet is an unbelievably useful tool for organizing data. Your money, the kids’ chores, your rare book collection, your holiday card list, your company’s products or customers, your project team’s tasks and due dates—anything that you can put in a list would probably work in a spreadsheet.

Of course, spreadsheets aren’t just for storing information—they’re for working with it. Sort data (to group customers by town, for example, or your rare books by value). Format data to emphasize deadlines or totals and set up rules that apply formatting automatically when certain conditions apply.

This chapter presents an introduction to spreadsheets: ...