Microsoft Excel
Validation and protection exercise
Average difficulty
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: Applying validation and protection to Olympics model
A full answer to this exercise is provided as part of the training course!
| 1) | Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-665.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it). |
| 2) | Open the file in the folder above. |
| 3) | Apply validation to the cost escalator so that it shows up as follows when you click on it: |
Use the Input Message tab of the data validation dialog box to achieve this
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| 4) | And like this when you enter an escalator less than 10% or more than 400%: |
Be careful to use your limits as between 0.1 and 4, since this is a percentage
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| 5) | Apply validation to the first 5 years of the ticket sales row so that the following warning appears if a user enters any ticket sales in these cells: |
This is a warning only, so a user can choose to ignore it
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| 6) | Use the Edit Go To... menu option to highlight all cells to which you have applied validation. |
| 7) | Finally, apply protection to your model so that a user can only change the input cells (you will need first to check that your input style(s) are correctly set up). |
| 8) | Save the model 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.
