Excel help!

[ntl customer]

Originally Posted by Stuart W

FLASHBACK I used to teach ICT at my local College and this looks surprisingly like some Diploma work..

Are you aiming for a Level III Diploma in Computer Applications by any chance?

If so, you need to speak to one of the lecturers at your College as they should have taught you all about this.
If you are doing the diploma, I can understand why you have been asked to create a database in Excel, because the diploma coursework was writen years ago.

FYI, again, if you are doing the diploma, it might be worth pointing out that you have spoken to Stuart Willet formerly at Harlow College who has explained that we had to DROP the excel project because excel is now so advanced, we couldn't program in the 'faulty' spreadsheet without Excel automatically correcting it.

It's the A Level ICT course I am doing. The exam board is AQA but I am not sure of the course code.

Regardless of what course I am doing, I would have at least appreciated them to do a tutorial/walkthrough in creating a database in Excel

[Stuart W]

Well, there is unfortunatly no-one to blame but your lecturers.

Get to the staff room and moan like frack that you are expected to just 'know' how to do things. Remind them that College is further education, not an exam. The idea is that Lecturers are there to tell you how things work and give examples, you then learn the courswork which enables you to complete it. The exams at the end are just to make sure it has sunk in.