Microsoft Excel
Validation and protection exercise
Harder than average exercise
This Microsoft Excel VALIDATION AND PROTECTION exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl ADVANCED EXCEL course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.
Exercise: Monthly report - choose month from list with input msg
A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!
| 1) | Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-163.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it). |
| 2) | Create a new worksheet giving the possible month choices, and give this block of cells a range name: |
Here we have used the name MONTHS
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| 3) | Apply validation to cell B2 so that when you click on the cell you see an input message telling you what you can do: |
Input messages like this one can look messy
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| 4) | Extend your validation so that when a user chooses a month which doesn't exist, they see this message: |
This message should appear
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| 5) | Save your file with the same name, then close it down. |
Thank you for showing an interest in this Advanced Excel training course! As mentioned above, full answers to this and other exercises are provided on the course. On all Wise Owl scheduled courses delegates can take away these model answers (together with their own efforts!) on a free USB stick.
