1. A client has sent an Excel File for you to review.

w. When you open the file, you notice that 0 / 1 point

it has the words Compatibility Mode on the Title Bar beside the filename. What does this
mean and what can you do if you are not sending the same file back to the client?

The file has been created in an older version of Excel and you should work on it but
make sure that you save the file in the original Excel format.
The file has been created in an older version of Excel and you should go to File, Info
and choose to convert it to a new Excel format.

Incorrect
Not quite. Try going back to review the Save and Share a Workbook item in Lesson
2.

2. Excel gives you many quick shortcuts for adding data in the worksheet. You typed a date 1 / 1 point
in cell A1, hovered over the square in the bottom right of the cursor and then dragged
down. What feature have you used and what will the highlighted icon allow you to?

The feature is called Autofill and the highlighted icon will allow you to customize the
entries.
The feature is called Autofill and the highlighted icon will allow you reverse the
process.
The feature is called Flash Fill and the highlighted icon will allow you to customize the
entries.

Correct
Correct! The feature you have used is Autofill which quickly adds a sequence of
dates in the cells you have selected underneath the original entry. The highlighted
icon will allow you to customize the sequence that Excel has just created.

3. You are having a conversation with a colleague who is more experienced with Excel. 0.6 / 1 point
You mention that you sometimes find it difficult to completely empty a cell and that you
will often use the delete option on the right click menu option as a quick solution. Your
colleague reminds you that if you use the delete on the right click menu you are shifting
cells on the worksheet and there is always a possibility that figures would then line up
under the wrong heading. They recommend using the Clear button on the Home Ribbon
instead. What can you delete using this button? Select all options that apply.
 Clear all contents, comments, and formats.

Correct
Correct! The Clear All option on the drop-down menu, removes everything from the
cell. It effectively “resets” the cell to how it was when the file was first created.

Clear the formatting only.

Correct
Correct! The Clear Formats option on the drop-down menu removes all manual
formatting from the cell and resets it to the default settings. Keep in mind that it will
also remove any conditional format rules on the cell. These are rules set up to
“trigger” a color change based on certain criteria.

Clear only the comments or notes on a cell.

Correct
Correct! The Clear Comments and Notes choice on this drop-down menu will leave
the cell content and formatting intact but remove any comments or notes. This is a
useful choice if you are tidying up a file ready for circulation.

Clear the entire row or the entire column that the cursor is in.

This should not be selected

Not quite. Try going back to review the Work with rows and columns item in Lesson
3.

Clear the content but leave the formatting and comments in place.

4. You are working on an Excel file that other people in your department also have access 1 / 1 point
to. While checking a worksheet updated by a colleague, you notice that they have
manually formatted a heading. You like the changes they have made and would like to
format the two new headings you have just typed in your worksheet in a similar way.
What would be the quickest way for you to do this?

Position the cursor on the heading formatted by your colleague. Click on the Copy
option on the Home Ribbon. Move the cursor to the first new heading you have just
typed in your worksheet and click on Paste in the Home Ribbon. Move the cursor to
the second new heading and click on Paste again.
Position the cursor on the heading formatted by your colleague. Double click on the
Format Painter button on the Home Ribbon. Move the mouse pointer to the first of the
new headings you have just typed in your worksheet and click the mouse button.
Move the mouse pointer to the second heading and click again. Click on the Format
Painter button again.
Position the cursor on the heading formatted by your colleague. Click on the Format
Painter button on the Home Ribbon. Move the mouse pointer to the first of the two
new headings you have just typed in your worksheet and click on Paste in the Home
Ribbon.

Correct
 Correct! The Format Painter button is the quickest way to copy formatting from one
cell to another. By using this feature, you can be confident that you are not replacing
content but simply applying the formatting. Double clicking on the Format Painter
button allows you to then “paint” multiple cells until you switch it off.

5. You are preparing a spreadsheet which contains information on all the orders a 1 / 1 point
customer has placed with your company over the last month. Because of the volume of
orders, the customer is entitled to a 10 percent discount on the total. You type in 10 into
a cell and then click on the percentage format button. What would you expect to see in
the cell?

Correct
Correct! The % format button should only be used to format the results of certain
calculations. It is the only formatting button in this group which also performs a
mathematical action which is that it multiplies by 100.

6. You are creating a spreadsheet to track new stock. Each product that you are listing will 1 / 1 point
be assigned a category code which will simply be two letters. You can see that Column
G is not wide enough to fully display the heading Sales Category. As the entries
underneath the heading will only ever be two letters, you do not want to widen the
column. How can you format the heading so that both words will be visible?
 Use the Center button in the Alignment group on the Home Ribbon.
Use the Merge Cells Feature.
Use the Wrap Text feature.

Correct
Correct! Clicking Wrap Text with cell G1 selected will adjust the row height to
position the word Sales above the word Category. Wrap Text can be removed by
clicking Wrap Text again. When you use wrap text on a cell it makes the whole row
deeper.

7. You have created a workbook containing several sheets of information for a client. You 1 / 1 point
would like to change some information, and you decide that a Search and Replace
would be the quickest way to do this. When you go to Home, Find and Select and then
click on Find what options are you given in the Find dialog that can make your search
quicker and more efficient? Select all options that apply.

You can search for entries formatted in a particular way.

Correct
Correct! You can use the Excel find feature to find specific formats. If you combine
this with the Replace feature it is one way to locate older formats in the worksheet
or workbook and replace them with newer ones.

You can ask Excel to match the case if you are searching for text.
 Correct
Correct! By default, the Excel search is not case sensitive. However, you can tick a
checkbox to make it case sensitive.

You can limit the search to any notes or comments that might have been added.

Correct
Correct! The Look In drop-down menu contains a choice to limit the search to only
notes or comments in the Workbook.

You can perform a search that looks through the whole workbook.

Correct
Correct! By default, Excel will only search the active worksheet, but you can
customize the Find options to extend the search to the whole Workbook.

You can specify worksheet names to limit the search to a subset of the worksheets in
the file.

8. You have created a worksheet which contains many technical terms, and you decide to 1 / 1 point
run the spellcheck feature to make sure that everything is spelled correctly. When the
spellchecker begins, you realize that it is checking in the wrong language. How can you
 quickly change this?

Click on the Add Dictionary button in the Spelling dialog.

In the Spellchecker dialog, click on the Dictionary Language drop down and change to
the correct dictionary.
Click on the Options button and change the dictionary there.

Correct
Correct! The Spellchecker dialog contains a drop-down list of available Dictionaries
that you can use. By default, Excel will use the dictionary appropriate for the country
you are in. However, by using this drop-down you can change the dictionary choice
at any time.

9. You are updating a worksheet and the cursor is currently on D3.The data in the sheet 1 / 1 point
ends in columnEand in row 8. This is the only content in the spreadsheet.If you go to the
Page Layout ribbon, and use the Breaks command to add a manual page break, how
many pages would you have in the worksheet?

Four
One
Two

Correct
Correct! The position of the cursor is important when adding manual page breaks in
Excel. Vertical page breaks are inserted to the left of the cursor and horizontal
breaks above the cursor. With the cursor on D3 Excel would add in a vertical and a
 horizontal page break, resulting in four pages.

10. You have headings on the first row of your spreadsheet, and you would like them to 0 / 1 point
repeat on every page when the spreadsheet is printed. In the Print Setup options which
setting do you need to adjust?

Change the Rows to Repeat at top setting.

Change the Print Area setting.
Change the Print Order setting.

Incorrect
Not quite. Try going back to review the Format cells item in Lesson 4.