Using Excel as a Graphic Organizer: Making a Coordinate Plane
You will use an Excel workbook to create a Cartesian coordinate
system with each quadrant being 10 x 10. Open an Excel workbook.
Click on the column heading A . The entire column will
highlight. Scroll over to the right until you can see column
heading Z . Hold down your shift key and click on the Z. You
should now have 26 columns selected. Click on the line between
any two column heading letters and drag to the left until the
column width is approximately 2 (19 pixels). When you release
the mouse button all 26 columns will be the same narrow width.
This makes each cell approximately square. Scroll back to column
A and click anywhere to remove the highlight color. We will use
these grid lines as reference points for our coordinate system.
Next we will outline the area of our four quadrants. Click in
cell C3 and drag down to cell V22. You could also watch the
changing information in the Name Box until you see (Excel counts
for you). With those 400 c