How to Use Excel for Newspaper Home Delivery

Use an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of the subscribers on your route.

If you have a newspaper route and you have Microsoft Excel, then you can create an organized spreadsheet listing the names of subscribers, their addresses and the dates of delivery for each newspaper. This way, you can keep track of those to whom you are delivering and can back up any complaints or claims of not receiving the morning paper. Send your Excel spreadsheet to your boss via email to show him or her how organized you are.

Instructions

1. Open up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. To do this, click on your green Start menu button. Click "All Programs," "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Excel." A new Excel spreadsheet will open on your screen.

2. Click on Box A2, and type the name of the first customer. Move down the A column, typing one name in each box.

3. Click on Box B2, and type the address of the first customer. Continue typing the addresses that correspond with the customers in the boxes in column B.

4. Click on box A1, and type "Customer Name." Click on box B1, and type "Customer Address."

5. Click on box C1, and type the first date of delivery. Type "+" marks and "-" marks down the boxes in column C to indicate whether you delivered or did not deliver the paper to the individual customer. Repeat this step in columns D-Z.

References

• Microsoft; Excel