Microsoft Office
Lists exercise
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Exercise: Market stall - sorting and filtering

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-186.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Is this spreadsheet a list?  If not, make it one.
Training exercise hint Look carefully at the definition of a list - you should see that this spreadsheet fails one key test!
3) Apply sorting so that you see the purchases listed by area code - where two or more purchases are for the same area code, they should appear with the least expensive first:
Exercise screen-shot 305 The MS purchases come first, with the cheapest ones first
4) Now apply filtering so that you can only see the items which are in the OA area code and where the Amount field equals between £100 and £300:
Exercise screen-shot 306 This is what you should see
5) Save this workbook as Market stall filtered, and close it down.

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