Microsoft Office
Messages and variables exercise
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This Microsoft Office MESSAGES AND VARIABLES exercise is provided to allow potential course delegates to assess their suitability for the Wise Owl EXCEL VISUAL BASIC course only, and may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any format without the prior written consent of Wise Owl.

Exercise: Showing team name, ground and colours

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

1)	Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-122.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2)	Create a macro called ShowDetails which: Selects cell A7 (the cell containing Chelsea) Reads their ground name into a variable Displays a message showing where this team plays
3)	Your final message should look like this:
	The message box concatenates the team and ground names
4)	Amend your macro so that it selects cell A8 (Coventry) to start with.  Does it still work?  (It should).
5)	If you have time only, add to your macro so that it displays the team colours also:
	The full and final message
6)	Save this workbook and close it down.

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