BC 2014 Session 8

Practice on Chapters 19-25 in

Excel 2013 textbook

Chapter 19
Recall COUNT, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, COUNTA
From Ch19, Practice Files, open Rock.xlsx
How many songs were not sung by Britney
Spears ?
How many songs were played before June 15,
2004 ?
How many songs were played between June
1, 2004 and July 4, 2006 ?
How many songs were sung by singers whose
last names begin with M ?

 How many songs were sung by singers whose

names contain an e ?
Create a formula that always yields the number
of songs played today. (Hint: Use the TODAY
function, Add a dummy entry in the end of the
table for a song played with todays date).
For the range D14:G15, count the cells
containing a numeric value. Count nonblanks
How many songs by Barry Manilow were
played in 2004 ?

Chapter 20
Recall SUMIF, AVERAGEIF, SUMIFS, and
AVERAGEIFS functions
From practice files open Makeup2007.xlsx
For each product, determine the total
number of units and the dollar volume sold
Determine the total revenue earned before
December 10, 2005
Determine the total units sold by
salespeople whose last names begin with C

 Determine the total revenue earned by

people who have five letters in their names
How many units were sold by people other
than Colleen ?
How many units of makeup were sold from
Jan 15, 2004, through Feb 15, 2005 ?
Open Toysrus.xlsx: compute seasonal index
for each Q. Formula S.I. = (average-sales-in
similar-Q)/(average-sales-over-all-Qs)

Chapter 21
Open C22p1.xlsx. Write formula using
MATCH-OFFSET that finds sales of a
given product during a given year.
Can you think of one other way ?
Matradingrule.xlsx: buy stock when
price moves above D-month average,
sell when it dips below. Experiment
with various D. If possible: use oneway data table to show scenarios.

 File Lagged.xlsx is about US Army

magazine ads in 60 months.
Calculated Lagged values using the
offset function.

Chapter 22
Open p23_2.xlsx: Use INDIRECT to
calculate total sales for any
combination of consecutively
numbered products.
Open p23_3.xlsx: go to each
worksheet and change the common
values. Now use INDIRECT to
compose a 2D table with all values
per month. Hint: fetch by composing
the string Sheetk!E5

 Open MarketbasketData.xlsx: for

each item listed in K9:K14 calculate
the percentage of transactions in
which the item was purchased. Also
calculate the fraction of transactions
taking place each day.

Chapter 23
Open Test.xlsx: Give an A (Red) to
the top-10 students, a B to the next
20 (Green), All others get a C (Blue).
Hint: function LARGE(D4:D63, 10) will
give tenth-highest value.
Open Historicalinvest.xlsx: use icons
such that top-10% returns have an up
arrow, botton-10% have down arrow,
rest 80% have horizontal arrow.

Chapter 24
Open makeupsort.xlsx, sort by
location, then by product type, then
by name, date of sale, finally by units
sold.
Sortday.xlsx: Custom Sort. Ensure
Monday data is followed by Tuesday
data, and so on.
Sorticons.xlsx: sort such that uparrows come first, horizontal-arrows
next, down-arrow last.

Chapter 25
Open Singers.xlsx: Set up the
worksheet to calculate total number
of songs by Eminem, plus average
length of each song.
Open Lookupdata.xlsx: setup so that
product code entered will yield
product price.