
Students Guide to Information
Technology
Activity
Use a record-keeping package to create a simple name-and-address
system that you might use for the members of your youth club. Enter
some names and addresses, and try out the various facilities that the
package provides, such as sorting the records into order, searching for
particular records and groups of records, and calculating summaries of
the data.
Save
your work onto disk, and produce
a
print-out of the data.
Spreadsheet software
Introduction to spreadsheets
A spreadsheet is a software package which organizes data in the form
of a table or
worksheet.
An example of a worksheet is shown