Microsoft Excel
IF and LOOKUP functions exercise
Harder than average exercise

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: Monthly reporting - profit for each item (LOOKUP)

A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-178.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Enter a formula in the yellow cell so that it shows the corresponding profit for any item typed into the green cell - an example is shown below:
Exercise screen-shot 253 The yellow cells shows, in this case, the overheads figure
3) Amend your formula so that it shows a suitable description if a non-existent line item title is entered in the green cell:
Exercise screen-shot 254 There is no item called Postage
Training exercise hint Use the ISNA function combined with an IF function to return No such item if your lookup formula returns NA
4) Save this file as Whew 2.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.

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