Independent Practice -- WeatherWatch

Each portion of this Working with Spreadsheets tutorial concludes with a practice activity, offering an opportunity for you to independently practice some of the skills presented. In this activity you will be creating a spreadsheet, called Weather Watch. The activity begins here and builds over the subsequent portions of the tutorial such that by the end, you will have created a full working spreadsheet.

Follow the instructions provided below to take the first steps in the creation of the file WeatherWatch.ods.

Activity
Open the Calc application. Create a new spreadsheet. Type "Weather Watch - Daily Temperatures - May 2009" beginning in cell A1. Type "Date" in cell A3. Type "Daily High Temperature" in cell B3. Type "Daily Low Temperature" in cell D3. Type "Record?" in cell F3. Rename the sheet "Temperature". Save the spreadsheet with the name "WeatherWatch" in the ods format. (If you haven't already, you may want to create a new folder, e.g., Calc Tutorial, to store your practice worksheets.) Choose [show] on the right to view how the spreadsheet will look when you've completed these steps.   Your spreadsheet should look like this Close the WeatherWatch.ods spreadsheet. Quit the Calc application.

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