Esteban Aguirre Excel Exercise #1

Auto Loan
Car insurance
Cell phone
Entertainment
Food
Housing
Internet
Medical
Miscellaneous
Tuition
Monthly Totals
Average
Monthly
Expenses

January
February March
346.88
346.88
346.88
180.43
180.43
180.43
80.73
56.78
110.52
100
100
400
150
150
150
425
425
425
40
40
40
118
118
118
500
100
100
2600
4541.04

1517.09

1870.83

Percent of
Totals for Total
1st
Monthly
Quarter
Expenses
1040.64
13.1%
541.29
6.8%
248.03
3.1%
600
7.6%
450
5.7%
1275
16.1%
120
1.5%
354
4.5%
700
8.8%
2600
32.8%
7928.96

2642.987

Directions For Excel Exercise # 1

Step 1 Click on A1 and then click on the text in the Formula bar to type in your name and press Enter
Step 2 Select A1 to F1, merge these cells together using the Merge and Center button in the Alignme
Step 3 With A1 still as the Active Cell, change the font and/or the font size to something bigger.
Increase the "white space" around the title by increasing the height of row 1 a bit by either drag
Step 4 and 2. The height will be shown in the tool tip in both POINTS and PIXELS. An alternate meth
choose Row Height. In this case the height will only be shown in POINTS. The exact amount i
Step 5 In B2 type January
Step 6 With the Active Cell still B2, drag the Fill Series handle to cells to the right to automatically type
Step 7 Click on F2 to make it the Active Cell. The Home tab should still be visible so in the Alignment
Step 8

Also in the Alignment group, click the Bottom Align button in the top row of buttons in the grou
will pop up and tell you which button is which.)

Step 9 Make the same formatting choices for both E2 and A16.
Increase the width of column A enough to see the full expense category labels in A3 to A14 by
Step 10 between the labels for column A and B to the right OR right-click on the column A label and ch
automatically size a column (or row) by double-clicking the right (or bottom) border.
Step 11 In cell E3 type in the formula: =SUM(B3:D3) and press enter
Step 12 Click on E3 again to make it the Active Cell and then use the Fill Series handle to drag down t
Step 13 In B14 type the formula: =SUM(B3:B12) and press enter
Step 14 Click on B14 again to make it the Active Cell and then drag the Fill Series handle to the right to
Step 15 In B16 type the formula: =AVERAGE(B14:D14) and press enter
Step 16 In F3 type the formula: =E3/E14 and press enter
Click on F3 again and then in the Number group under the Home tab click on the Percentage
Step 17
so the cell is formatted to show numbers to one tenth of a percent.

Step 18 With the Active Cell still F3, drag the Fill Series handle down to row 12.
Step 19

You know see a series of error messages of #DIV/0 which means division by zero. The proble
down to blank cells so we have to tell it to use the same divisor all the time.

Click on F3 again and edit the formula to read: =E3/$E$14 and press enter. The dollar sign is
Step 20 ABSOLUTE ADDRESSES meaning those cell references in a formula will not change when th
copied to another location
Step 21 Now, click on F3 again and drag the fill series handle down to row 12.
Step 22 Save this file on your USB drive using the file name of ExcelExercise1_YourName.xls
Step 23 Go into the Excel folder in the Assignment section of Blackboard and turn in this file.

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hod is to right-click on the row 1 label and
is unimportant.
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up. (If you hover over the buttons the tool tip

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to E12
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button and then the Increase Decimal button

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