This instructional unit is intended to assist teachers in helping students learn to use electronic spreadsheets. The 11 learning activities included, all of which are designed for use in conjunction with Multiplan Spreadsheet Software, are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. An effort has been made to include problems applicable to each of the following areas: basic business, secretarial, administrative support, information processing, marketing, and accounting. Topics covered in the individual lessons include operating a spreadsheet program, formatting an electronic spreadsheet, entering and saving data, creating a new electronic spreadsheet from an existing one, rearranging and replacing data, changing data on an electronic spreadsheet and understanding the effect of new "what if" projections, printing an electronic spreadsheet, entering formulas, copying data, printing tables, making interest projections, and organizing and creating a new spreadsheet by integrating all of the aforementioned concepts. Each lesson includes a lesson title, objectives, list of needed teaching aids and references, teaching outline, outcomes, learning activity, instructions, and reference data necessary to complete the activity. (MN)