Creating Data Tables on the Computer

There are several different ways to create data tables in a word program like Microsoft Word and in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.

Here is a tutorial for inserting a table into Microsoft Word 2010.





Here is part two which provide even more helpful hints. These may not just help with the science fair, but also with navigating through Microsoft Word in general.






Another way to create a data table is to use a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel. Excel may seem a bit more challenging at first, but offers a wider variety of tools to use. It is also much easier  to create graphs out of Excel. My recommendation is to use Excel to create data tables. Here is a link to an Excel tutorial that provides some basic descriptions for Excel.

Here is a quick tutorial on some of the functions and commands of Excel.



That video comes from this website which has many lessons on Excel and every lesson includes a video. To find the other lessons, just click on the lessons button and scroll to a lesson that you would like to view.

These are all helpful and there are many more tutorials, lessons, and videos on the Internet that can help students and parents learn to use these programs, but one of the best teachers is practice and experience. One of the best ways to learn is to experiment  with the program and try different things, you'll be amazed at what you learn!