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For the spreadsheet and database assignment, I used Optical Character Recognition
(OmniPage Professional OCR) to scan the membership list from the back of the
Global Ratification and Elections Network letterhead. I retained those members of the
World Coordinating Council who were listed as leaders of youth or student organizations.
This was done somewhat arbitrarily, and these persons are not necessarily going to be working
on or with the Graduate School's Student Council. That will be up to them as the council develops.
(The web site will not be registered with the search engines until after the GSWP Board and the
World Coordinating Council Members have had an opportunity to express whether there is both
the qualification and desire to take on such responsibilities.)
I also went to the United States Census Bureau for world population figures.
These were in a table which I did not immediately form into neat columns.
At first, I cut and pasted the table into Excel, dragging the 'A' column delimiter
to the right until all figures were enclosed in a single column. Then, I selected all
of column A and went to the Data/Convert-Text-to-Columns menu option.
Upon conversion, all the information was neatly divided into appropriate columns.
Alice Rice showed me that if I save it as html source, then those steps are not necessary
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