Excel

Working with Excel

Getting Started with Excel 2000.

Download Microsoft's Exploring Excel 2000. tutorial (MS Word document)

What Excel formulae should look like.

Excel help pages from Florida Gulf Coast University:

• Excel menus

• Formulae and functions

• Graphics and charts

• Moving through cells

• Shortcut keys

Examples of what Excel can do

Examples of ways you can use Excel to benefit your congregation. Click on the tabs on the bottom of the page for different worksheet examples:

• Gethsemane Lutheran Church (© Copyright Jeanne L. Dahl and Nathan W. Loer. Used by permission).

• Trinity Lutheran Church

Finding data you can use in Excel

For source data to help you create usable Excel documents, here are some helpful web sites that contain statistics and demographics:

• This site offers area maps of St. Paul http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/maps/

• http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/datanetweb/dpm.html

• "This demographic report is designed to help ELCA congregations gain a general understanding of their community and to plan mission using that information."  http://www.elca.org/re/zipnet.html

• http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup