Name: __________________

Date: _________________

Period: ______

USING CELL RANGE REFERENCES

In order to refer to a range of cells, you need to be able to read notations for this. When
referring to a range, you will use 2 cell references, the upper left cell and the lower right cell
in the range you want to highlight with a colon separating them: A1:C5 for instance, refers to
a range that starts in A1 and goes to C5. A range will ALWAYS be a rectangle.
Use the following sets of instructions to create pictures in Excel using cell ranges:

S ETUP YOUR SPREADSHEET

1. Highlight the range A:K
a. Click and hold the mouse button on the A column and drag to highlight over to the K
column (A:K)
b.
c.
d.
e.

Click on the Format

button in the Cells group
Select Column Width from the menu
Type 2
Click OK

P ICTURE O NE
2. Highlight the range A1:F6
a. Click in cell A1 and hold the mouse button
b. Drag down to F6
c. Release mouse button
3. Fill the cell with Pink using the fill color button
4. Highlight the range A3:F3
5. Fill with Yellow
6. Highlight D1:D6
7. Fill with Yellow
8. Click on cell C2, fill with yellow
9. Click on cell E4, fill with yellow
10. What am I: __________________________________

in the Font group

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11. Click on cell B12, fill with Red
12. Click on cell D12, fill with Red
13. Click on cell F12, fill with Red
14. Click on cell D19, fill with Red
15. Highlight B13:F17, fill with Red
16. Highlight C18:E18 fill with Red
17. Highlight D20:D30, fill with Green
18. Fill the following cells with green:
a. A24, B23, C24
b. E22, F21, G22
19. What am I? _________________
20. Submit though e-Chalk. Confirmation number: ___________________________