Microsoft Office
Formatting your work exercise
Relatively easy

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Exercise: Formatting - buying toys

1) Download the files needed to start this exercise: exercise-697.zip (and click here if you experience any problems unzipping this file after downloading it).
2) Open the workbook called:    Plain Toys.xls        from the folder shown above.
3) Make the following formatting changes:
  • Insert some extra rows at the top and type in the title
  • Format the font, size etc of the title
  • Change the row heights to space them out more
  • Change the vertical cell alignment of these rows to centred
  • Insert more rows between the titles and first row of data and before the totals
  • Format all the numbers except the Q Ordered column to show £" and 2 decimal places
  • Change the column widths
  • Line up the column titles with the numbers on the right
  • Centre everything in the Q Ordered column
  • Add borders, gridlines and shading as desired!
Training exercise hint Don't forget to use:   Format Cells...    Number     to add the £" sign right next to the numbers.
4) Your formatted example will look something like this:
Exercise screen-shot 1389 Yours does not have to look exactly like this
5) Save the workbook with the new name:     Formatted Toys

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