Microsoft Office
Masking exercise
Average difficulty

This Microsoft Office MASKING 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: Creating jail mask for star

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

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-679.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Our model in the folder above has an important omission - our celebrity frequently spends periods in jail for his/her drug problem.  To model this, we have introduced input cells for the start and end period of any jail term:
Exercise screen-shot 1342 The start and end periods can be any number from 1 to 12
3) Amend your calculations so that the revenue is turned on or off according to whether the celebrity is in jail or not:
Exercise screen-shot 1343 Don't forget - you should be able to do this without the IF function!
4) Save and close your workbook.

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