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In this exercise, you will graph actual tidal data from a tidal station in Freeport using Microsoft Excel and answer some questions about the data.
(The source of this data is the NOAA and can be found here.)

Copying the Tidal Data into a Table
1. Open Microsoft Excel so that you have a blank page to enter the data. Open Tidal Data From Freeport, a Microsoft Word document.

2. Highlight the numbers in the table by putting your cursor before the number "2" under the Date/Time column. Scroll down to the bottom of the table, making sure that you include both columns of numbers. All of the numbers in the table should be highlighted. Go to Edit, then Copy.

3. Go to your blank Excel worksheet. Put the cursor into cell A1. Go to Edit, then Paste. The data from the Word document should now be in your spreadsheet. (You can close the Microsoft Word document now so that you just have your Excel spreadsheet open on your computer.) You are ready to make your graph...