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COMSCI 11
FINAL PRACTICAL EXAM
Use Excel to complete the following exercises. Work is to be submitted electronically.
Feel free to use your book and class notes. NO SHARING OF FILES, ONCE PROVEN WILL
AUTOMATICALLY GET 0 POINTS FOR FINALS HANDS-ON EXAM.
Instructions:
Create a new excel file name it Lastname_FinalPractical

NOTE: AFTER YOUR DONE WITH THE PRACTICAL EXAM GO TO SHEET 2 RENAME IT
AS CS11 FINAL
AND SELECT A1 THEN WRITE YOUR LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME AND MIDDLE INITIAL;
PROCEED TO A2 AND ENCODE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS SELECT A3 AND ENCODE THE
CITY OF YOUR CURRENT ADDRESS.

Sarah runs a travel agency called Gulf Coast Destinations. Customers can choose from
four different travel locations. Sarah takes trip reservations by mail, phone, online, and
by appointment in her office. Sarah tracks her annual sales to help her make business
decisions.

1. Make a spreadsheet that looks like the one below:

Gulf Coast Destinations Annual Sales 2011

Location
New Orleans, Louisiana

Mai
l

Phon
e

Onlin
e

Appointment

65

122

388

400

Pensacola, Florida

133

488

500

822

Key West, Florida

355

966

1599

1422

Corpus Christi, Texas

144

299

488

577

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2. Click in cell B7 and then click the AutoSum

to calculate the total annual sales Sarah made by

button
Mail.

3. Press Enter.
4. Click in cell B7 to select the cell, and use the fill handle (the tiny black
cross in the bottom right corner of the selected cell) to fill in the sum for C7, D7, E7

5. Click in cell F3. Highlight the column down to cell F7.

6. Click the AutoSum button. This calculates the total sales Sarah
made for each location.
7. Highlight your entire chart. Click on the Currency button in the
Number group on the Home tab.

8. Save the spreadsheet on your flash drive or to the Desktop. Name it Annual Sales
2011. (Save is found by clicking the File tab on the Ribbon.)

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9. Highlight cells A3 to A6.

10. Press and hold the CTRL key on the
keyboard and then highlight cells F3
to F6. You should have two columns
highlighted.
11. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.
12. Click Pie and click the first pie chart.
13. A chart that looks like the one below should appear. It is
comparing the amount of money Sarah has made from sales
at each location.

14. Look at the new Chart Tools tabs on the Ribbon these three tabs
only appear when you are using charts. The tabs are called
Design, Layout and Format. Click the Layout tab.
15. Click Chart Title and then click Above Chart.
16. A space for at title will appear on your chart. Change the charts title to Sales by
Location.
17. Click Data Labels and then click Best Fit. This will label each section of the pie
chart with the amount of money it represents.

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18. When your chart appeared, it

covered some of the data in your
table. Hold your mouse over the
chart until it looks like a four-pointed
arrow. Then click and drag the chart
below the table of information.
19. Your spreadsheet should look like the one at the left.

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20. Highlight cells B2 to E2.

21. Press and hold the CTRL key on the

keyboard and then highlight cells B7 to
E7. You should have two rows
highlighted.
22. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.

23. Click Bar and then click the first bar graph under 3-D Bar.

24. A chart that looks like the one below should appear. It is
comparing the amount of money Sarah made in each category of reservation.

25. Click the Layout tab on the ribbon.

26. Click Chart Title and then click Above Chart.
27. In the box that appears on your chart, change the title to Sales by Category.
28. Click the area on your chart that says Series1. This is called the Legend. It is
designed to tell you what each color on the chart represents. Press the Delete key

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on the keyboard to erase the Legend. There is only one color representing this data,
so you do not need a Legend.
29. Right click on the numbers at the bottom
of the chart, and then click Format Axis.
30. In the box that appears, click Number on
the left side of the box. This gives you
options about how your data is displayed.
31. Change the number of decimal places to
0 and then click Close at the bottom of the
box. This will make the Axis labels easier to read.

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32. Move the chart next to the pie

chart so that it is not covering
any other information.
33. Highlight all the information in
your table EXCEPT the totals.
34. Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon.
35. Click Column and click the first option.
36. A chart that looks like the one below should appear. This
compares the amount of money Sarah made for each
location in each reservation category. This shows her most
popular locations, and the most popular way to make reservations.

37. Click the Layout tab on the Ribbon.

38. Click Chart Title and then click Above Chart.
39. In the box that appears on your chart, change the title to:
Sales Comparison:
Location and Category

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40. Click the Design tab on the Ribbon. This tab will allow you to change the way the
chart looks.
41. In the Chart Styles group, click the down arrow until you see the styles with a black
background.

42. Click the second option.

43. Move the column chart next to the bar chart, so that it is not covering any
information.
44. Your spreadsheet should look like this:

45. Save the spreadsheet.

46. Close Excel.