Microsoft Office 2007
Pivot tables exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Office 2007 PIVOT TABLES exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl ADVANCED EXCEL 2007 course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Roller Coaster - Pivot Table

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

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-847.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the spreadsheet in the folder above :
Exercise screen-shot 1839 You should see this list of UK rides
3) Convert this data into a pivot table and find the overall average speed of all rides that satisfy the following criteria:
  • The Type is Steel
  • The Design is Sit Down
  • The Amusement Park has the word adventure somewhere in the title
4) Having narrowed your data down, you should get to this point
Exercise screen-shot 1840 These rides sound appealing!
5) Once finished, save you file as Rollercoasters Pivot

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