Microsoft Excel
Range names and absolute references exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Excel RANGE NAMES AND ABSOLUTE REFERENCES exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl EXCEL BUSINESS MODELLING course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Profit calculations (showing labelling ranges)

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

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-166.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Type in labels to the right of each of the ranges shown below (you don't need to bother colouring your cells, though!):
	There are 5 ranges to create
3)	Now build up the spreadsheet shown below, using sensible formulae:
	Your formulae should not include a single cell reference
Don't forget that you can choose   Insert   Name   Create...   to label ranges automatically.
4)	Save this file as wow.xls, then close it down.

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