Microsoft Office
Range names and absolute references exercise
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This Microsoft Office 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: Calories - vertical ranges used in formuale

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

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-167.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Select the cells shown below:
	We will apply the labels in the top row to the cells beneath them
3)	From the menu select   Insert   Name   Create...   to create three range names:
	You can use the range selector dropdown to check that your ranges have been created
4)	Type in hours spent for each activity (making sure that your numbers sum to 24!), and create and copy down a formula to give the total number of calories expended per activity using range names only:
	A typical answer might look like this
5)	Save this as Range names are great.xls, and close it down.

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