Microsoft Excel
IF and LOOKUP functions exercise
Average difficulty
This Microsoft Excel IF AND LOOKUP FUNCTIONS 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: Credit control - credit controller/group name (LOOKUPS)
A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!
| 1) | Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-177.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it). |
| 2) | This spreadsheet lists out some aged debts for different credit accounts. Firstly, insert two columns titled as shown below: |
Insert new columns C and D as shown
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| 3) | Now enter formulae in C2 and D2 to give the group name and credit controller for the given account, by looking them up in the table contained in the Other Data sheet: |
This should give you the first row shown above
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| 4) | Now copy these formulae down to all of the other rows: |
A sample of what you should see
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| 5) | Change the 0 entries to read "Not given" either by:
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| 6) | Your final spreadsheet should start like this: |
The IF function has converted any 0 values into text
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| 7) | Save this as Whew.xls, 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.
