seventh

Previously I had always associated excel spreadsheets with boredom. Today, however, when I used it for something useful, I found it quite interesting. The markbook and mailmerge we looked at in the lecture could be very helpful in the future for record keeping and writing reports. I still don't really understand it all that well, and I am sure there are many more things that one can do with spreadsheets that I am not capable of, but in terms of tabulating student results and recording marks, I found it quite useful. I was able to calculate totals, averages, percentages and grades quickly and simply, when I worked out what I was doing. It would possibly have been useful to have had a list of the relevant codes/equations and what they actually meant, rather than trying to figure it out on my own, but by the end of the lecture I had achieved something totally usable. I had never seen the mailmerge feature in word before, so that was a pleasant surprise and if I use excel to create markbooks, then report writing becomes quite simple.