Creating A Grade Sheet With Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel serves as an excellent tool for tracking grades in your course. But its power is not limited to its ability to organize information in rows and columns. Using formulas and functions in Excel, you can simplify the grading process. With Excel you can sort students by names, grades or whatever characteristics you choose. You can also setup a grade curve in advance and have Excel automatically assign letter grades (not just percentages) to each of your students. When you change the curve, the grades will change automatically. This tutorial will show you how to setup a grading sheet in Excel that makes use of all these functions plus some other helpful features that will be explained in detail later. This tutorial assumes the reader has a basic understanding of how to navigate a spreadsheet and enter data in cells. A reader who is experienced with Excel and is familiar with entering formulas and the difference between absolute and relative cell references can begin in section three.