Excel Project 1 MS Excel (Summer 2019)
Use the following project description to complete this activity (all the details are included in this document, in the 22 steps below). For a review of the rubric used in grading this exercise, click on the Assignments tab, then on the title Excel Project 1. Click on Show Rubrics if the rubric is not already displayed.
Summary
Create a Microsoft Excel workbook with four worksheets that provides extensive use of Excel capabilities including charting, and written analysis and recommendations in support of a business enterprise.
A large rental car company has two metropolitan locations, one at the airport and another centrally located in downtown. It has been operating since 2015 and each location summarizes its car rental revenue quarterly. Both locations rent four classes of cars: economy, premium, hybrid, SUV. Rental revenue is maintained separately for the four classes of rental vehicles.
The data for this case resides in the file summer2019rentalcars.txt and can be downloaded by clicking on the Assignments tab, then on the data file name. It is a text file (with the file type .txt).
Do not create your own data. You must use the data provided and only the data provided.
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Formatting. All labels, text, and numbers will be Arial 10, There will be $ and comma and decimal point variations for numeric data, but Arial 10 will be the default font and font size.
Tutorials Note: Tutorials that address activities used in this project have been assigned in Week 1, 2 and 3.
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1
Open Excel and save a blank workbook with the following name: a. Students LastFirstInitial Name Excel Project 1 Example: SmithJaneP Excel Project 1. b. Set Page Layout Orientation to Landscape.
Use Print Preview to review how the first worksheet would print.
2 Change the name of the worksheet to Analysis by.
3
In the Analysis by worksheet: a. Beginning in Row 1, enter the four labels in column A (one label per row) in the following order: Name:, Class/Section:, Project:, Date Due: b. Place a blank row between each label. Please note the colon : after each label. c. Align the labels to the right side in the cells
It may be necessary to adjust the column width so the four labels are clearly visible within Column A (not extending into Column B).
Format for column A:
Arial 10 point Normal font Right-align all four labels in the cells