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$ Beginner Guitarist. Learning a musical instrument is something you will find on most people’s bucket lists. And when it comes to picking a musical instrument to learn, most people go for the guitar. Given the different types of guitars there are and the amazing range of sounds you can play with them, the guitar is an easy choice to understand. Unfortunately, many people who begin learning the guitar give up before they are able to play the songs they love. This is primarily because most guitar learning programs and guides focus on having a guitar perfect their skills before they move onto the next stage. You start by mastering the major chords first, then the minor ones, and so on. This can be discouraging for beginners who want to see results right away.

Here to help out beginner guitarists in this department is a tool called FourChords. FourChords is a smartphone application for iOS devices. You can optionally record what you play and share it with your friends through the application. Features: How to Create a Drop-Down List in an Excel Spreadsheet. Methods of Selecting Cells. Selecting cells in an equation is a very important concept of a spreadsheet. We need to know how to reference the data in other parts of the spreadsheet. When entering your selection you may use the keyboard or the mouse. We can select several cells together if we can specify a starting cell and a stopping cell.

This will select ALL the cells within this specified BLOCK of cells. If the cells that we want to work with are not together (non-contiguous cells) we can use the comma to separate the cells or by holding down the control-key (command key on a MAC) and selecting cells or blocks of cells the comma will be inserted automatically to separate these chunks of data. For the following examples let's consider the table below: This is just a discussion of selection methods. =sum( Type In ) or =sum( Click On ) $ Basic tasks in Excel 2010. In this article What is Excel? Excel is a spreadsheet program in the Microsoft Office system. You can use Excel to create and format workbooks (a collection of spreadsheets) in order to analyze data and make more informed business decisions. Specifically, you can use Excel to track data, build models for analyzing data, write formulas to perform calculations on that data, pivot the data in numerous ways, and present data in a variety of professional looking charts.

Common scenarios for using Excel include: Accounting You can use the powerful calculation features of Excel in many financial accounting statements—for example, a cash flow statement, income statement, or profit and loss statement. Top of Page Find and apply a template Excel 2010 allows you to apply built-in templates, to apply your own custom templates, and to search from a variety of templates on Office.com.

To find a template in Excel 2010, do the following: On the File tab, click New. Create a new workbook Save a workbook. Keyboard shortcuts in Excel 2010. This article describes what Key Tips are and how you can use them to access the ribbon. It also lists CTRL combination shortcut keys, function keys, and some other common shortcut keys for Microsoft Excel. Note If you are using Microsoft Excel Starter 2010, be aware that not all the features listed for Excel are supported in Excel Starter 2010. In this article Keyboard access to the ribbon If you're new to the ribbon, the information in this section can help you understand the ribbon's keyboard shortcut model.

The ribbon comes with new shortcuts, called Key Tips. To make the Key Tips appear, press ALT. To display a tab on the ribbon, press the key for the tab—for example, press the letter N for the Insert tab or M for the Formulas tab. Will my old shortcuts still work? Keyboard shortcuts that begin with CTRL will still work in Excel 2010. Most of the old ALT+ menu shortcuts still work, too. Top of Page CTRL combination shortcut keys Function keys Other useful shortcut keys.