A Note on Spread Sheet and its General Uses

Abstract

This note is meant as an introduction to spread sheet and it contains material enough for about three class session on spread sheet. It deals with the features of Lotus 1-2-3, released 2. The features covered are: size of a spread sheet,cells and ranges, copying from one range to another, menu structure, what if analysis and others. An example on the design of a spread sheet is discussed in detail. This deals with the comparison of two plans for sales commission. There are three appendices. Appendix-1 lists the role of each of the function keys, Appendix-2 lists some of the important @ functions, and Appendix-3 explains some important menu commands.At the end there are three problems for practice.