As you experiment with the worksheets in Excel 2000, you will continue to learn more about how to use Excel 2000 worksheets and workbooks in and out of the classroom. You may want to try some of the following activities:

**You can easily insert Excel 2000 data charts and graphs into PowerPoint 2000 presentations. The next time you create a presentation, insert a data table and graph. Any changes you make to the Excel 2000 worksheet are automatically updated in your PowerPoint 2000 presentation.

**Your monthly reports can be updated as quickly as you change the data. In letters to your students’ parents, you can quickly update student scores and grades.

**Use Excel 2000 in conjunction with Word 2000 to send people a customized letter regarding their class progress using the Mail Merge feature in Word 2000.

**Track club or classroom budgets.

**You can use Excel 2000 for personal record keeping, such as taxes and money management.

**With Excel 2000 you can creates all kinds of graphs and charts that visually explain numerical data. Create a budget and track expenses for school projects.

**Calculate interest rates, both simple and compound.