Microsoft Excel
Formatting your work exercise
Relatively easy

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Exercise: Formatting - buying toys

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-697.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Open the workbook called:    Plain Toys.xls        from the folder shown above.
3)	Make the following formatting changes: Insert some extra rows at the top and type in the title Format the font, size etc of the title Change the row heights to space them out more Change the vertical cell alignment of these rows to centred Insert more rows between the titles and first row of data and before the totals Format all the numbers except the Q Ordered column to show £" and 2 decimal places Change the column widths Line up the column titles with the numbers on the right Centre everything in the Q Ordered column Add borders, gridlines and shading as desired!
Don't forget to use:   Format Cells...    Number     to add the £" sign right next to the numbers.
4)	Your formatted example will look something like this:
	Yours does not have to look exactly like this
5)	Save the workbook with the new name:     Formatted Toys

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