A:AnswerThank you for the question. White keyboards will have dark characters on the keys and dark (blue, black) keyboards have light characters on the keys.
A:AnswerThank you for the question. This laptop does not have an optical drive. You could connect an external CD/DVD drive, however. An example: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-24x-write-24x-rewrite-24x-read-cd-8x-write-dvd-external-usb-2-0-dvd-writer-drive-multi/1970008.p?skuId=1970008
A:AnswerThank you for the question. This laptop is better suited for student and general household use, perhaps some casual gaming. If gaming is your main concern, most games have minimum system and graphics requirements (RAM, processor speed, discrete graphics, etc.). Please research the requirements of games you'd like to play to ascertain if this laptop will be minimally acceptable or if you'll need more power and better graphics.
A:AnswerThe standard I was taught back in "the old days" was to create a passphrase that's easy to remember, but is hard to guess. For example, if I'd gotten a stuffed dog from my girlfriend, I might have chosen "ThestuffeddogIgotfrommygirlfriend". Although now, there are programs like LastPass that will create and store passwords for you with random numbers and letters. Thank you for asking the question!
A:AnswerThank you for the question. Yes, this laptop will be compatible with Excel. Note that the storage is just 64GB. We recommend that you have ancillary storage (a flash drive) if you intend to save files locally instead of to the cloud.