Excel

Excel can save lot of time if the teacher use it in education, because it is so neatly laid out in rows and columns, it is a quick way to produce a list of things about a statistical work or a simple need in our daily life. For example, you can make a birthday list with names in the left column and birth dates in the next column. You can then sort the list by birth date and then back to name sequence. We use functions and formulas to create new data in the cells or to operate upon the data in the cells. In the birthday list it is possible to use a formula that tells Excel to use the today function as we did last class and the date of birth to create another column called “Age.” This doesn't do Excel justice because it can serve the needs at home for such things as birthday lists, budgets, and checking account registers. But it also, because of the formulas, functions and other capabilities, is used in businesses to acquire data from databases and manipulate that data to present bills, invoices, accounting reports, and on and on. I think Microsoft Excel is obviously the best product. This program provides a wide scope of options and user modifications (control elements, programming language, table formatting, etc.). This predestines it for use in engineering, industrial and technical calculations.