I’m sure most of you have used the Windows 7 Calculator for the odd sum that you need to quickly add up, but it turns out this calculator is much improved on previous versions of Windows. There’s a whole bunch of other features thrown in there which you mightn’t know about at first.
Here’s a couple of them;
Calculate Dates
How many times have you needed to work out how many days, months and even years between one date or another? While it may be easy enough to give it a rough guess, you can actually do this accurately in Windows 7 with the built in Date Calculator feature.
Just fire up your calculator and then go to View -> Date Calculation or you can hit Ctrl-U on your keyboard. You will then be able to easily calculate the differences between two dates, or add/subtract days to a specific date.
Unit Conversion
Another useful feature that’s been built into the calculator is a unit converter. This comes in very handy for me and I wish I knew about it sooner as I’m always trying to convert distances and weights.
To access this go to your calculator and then View -> Unit Conversion or you can also get there with Ctrl-U. You can now convert away to your hearts content with a variety of units available including angles, area,energy,time,velocity, mass as well as many more. There’s no currency conversion however since that would require constant updating to keep in line with the currency exchange rate.
Work Out Your Fuel Consumption
Yes there’s even a feature for working out your (mpg) or (L/100 km). When you’re in the calculator, go to View->Worksheets and then choose which one you want. While most cars come with this feature built in, I suppose it could be handy, it’s pretty cool that it comes as a standard feature though.
There’s also a host of other different calculator modes such as Scientific, Programmer and Statistics for those of you how need to use them
So there’s a couple of little tips for you about the calculator that you may not have known about
