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Excel Project Twelve Days of Christmas Instructions

This Excel project involves calculating the items received and total cost based on the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". The document provides instructions to apply formatting, enter numbers of items received each day according to the song, sum the totals, and look up costs of each item to calculate the total cost over the 12 days. It asks the critical thinking question of how many days it would take to return one item per day if receiving gifts started on Christmas Day.

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Excel Project Twelve Days of Christmas Instructions

This Excel project involves calculating the items received and total cost based on the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas". The document provides instructions to apply formatting, enter numbers of items received each day according to the song, sum the totals, and look up costs of each item to calculate the total cost over the 12 days. It asks the critical thinking question of how many days it would take to return one item per day if receiving gifts started on Christmas Day.

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EXCEL PROJECT: Twelve Days of Christmas

Objectives
Apply themes and styles Sum formula
Set number formats Cell formats and settings
Set cell alignment Worksheet tabs

As the holiday season approaches lets calculate the true insanity of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Exactly how many items would you receive if your true love gifted you as the song suggests?
How much would it cost your true love to send you the gifts?

1. Open 12 Days of Christmas from the website and save it as 12 Days of Christmas YOURNAME
2. Apply Facet theme to BOTH worksheets in the workbook.
Twelve Days worksheet Part 1
3. Change width of Column A should be 22.25
4. Change width of Columns B-M to 10
5. Select cells A1:M1, Merge & Center these cells (The Twelve Days of Christmas will be centered)
6. Give The Twelve Days of Christmas a Heading 1
7. Make Row 1 Height 22.50
8. Select cell A2 (Item Delivered) Center, Bold, and make the font dark green
9. Select cells A3:A14 right align and bold
10. Input the number of items given for each dayremember the song (Day 1 is just one partridge in a pear
tree Day 2 are two turtle doves and one partridge in a pear tree, etc.)
11. Cell A16 (Total) apply Total format to this cell
12. Total each Days column B16 should be total Day 1, C16 should be total Day 2, D16 Day 3 total after
doing Days 1 3, copy the sum across through Day 12
Critical Thinking
13. Go to Cell A20 and type GRAND TOTAL and add Total format to this cell
14. Cell B20 should SUM all 12 day totals
15. If you started returning one item each day (ignoring Sundays and holidays) type the date you would
return your last in in cell A23

Critical Thinking
If started receiving your gifts, beginning on Christmas Day and you returned ONE item
(one item, not an entire set of items) per day, how many days would it take? On what
day would the last item be returned?
EXCEL PROJECT: Twelve Days of Christmas
Objectives
Apply themes and styles Sum formula
Set number formats Cell formats and settings
Set cell alignment Worksheet tabs

As the holiday season approaches lets calculate the true insanity of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Exactly how many items would you receive if your true love gifted you as the song suggests?
How much would it cost your true love to send you the gifts?

16. Apply Facet theme to BOTH worksheets in the workbook. (make sure you have done it for part 2
worksheet, if it didnt transfer already)
Twelve Days worksheet Part 2
17. Change width of Column A should be 30
18. Change width of Columns B-N to 10
19. Select cells A1:N1, Merge & Center these cells (The CostChristmas will be centered)
20. Give The Cost of the Twelve Days of Christmas a Heading 1
21. Change the height of row 1 to 24
22. Bold Row 2
23. Cells A3:A14 right align, middle align, size 10 pt, and select Wrap Text
24. To find the cost of each item go to: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-much-the-12-days-of-
christmas-would-cost-you-this-year/
25. Apply currency format to cells B3:N16
26. Input the cost of each item down column B, in the corresponding cell
27. Applying the same logic of the song, put the cost for each item the day(s) it was delivered (Day 1 is just
a partridge in a pear tree, Day 2 is two turtle doves and one partridge in a pear tree, etc.)
28. Cell A16 (Total Cost Each Day) apply Total format to this cell
29. Total each Days column B16 is total cost of Day 1, C16 is total cost of Day 2, D16 Day 3 total after
doing Days 1 3, copy the sum across through Day 12
Critical Thinking
30. Go to Cell A18 and type Total Cost for the 12 Days
31. Cell A19 should SUM all 12 days total cost and formatted as currency BOLD this cell, change font
color to red

Critical Thinking
How much would it cost your true love to send you ALL the gifts from the twelve days of
Christmas in the exact fashion of the song?

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