SIMnet 2016: Excel 2016 Capstone Project Level 3 Alt

Excel 2016 Capstone Project EX-3

Working with Sales Data Alternate with VLOOKUP
In this project, you will work with sales data from Top’t Corn, a popcorn company with an online store, multiple food
trucks, and two retail stores. You will begin by copying the sales data for one of the retail stores from another workbook.
Next, you will insert a new worksheet and enter sales data for the four food truck locations, formatting the data, and
calculating totals. You will create a pie chart to represent the total units sold by location and a column chart to represent
sales by popcorn type. You will format the charts, and then set up the worksheet for printing. Next, you help Top’t Corn
calculate payments for a loan and decide whether or not the purchase is a good idea. Working with the daily sales data for
one of the brick-and-mortar stores, you will apply conditional formatting to find the top 10 sales dates. You will also calculate
the sales for each date, and the average, minimum, and maximum sales. You will use Goal Seek to find the appropriate price
to reach a higher daily average sales goal. You will use VLOOKUP to look up sales data for a specific date. Finally, you will
work with their online sales data to format it as an Excel table and apply sorting and filtering. You will create a PivotTable
and a PivotChart from a copy of the online sales data to summarize the sales.

Skills needed to complete this project:

• Open a workbook • Change the print margins
• Copy a worksheet to another workbook • Scale a worksheet for printing
• Close a workbook • Change the color of a worksheet tab
• Insert a worksheet • Apply a column width
• Name a worksheet • Calculate a loan payment with PMT
• Move a worksheet • Enter a simple formula using multiplication
• Enter text • Enter a simple formula using subtraction
• Enter numbers • Add cell borders
• Edit text • Create a formula referencing cells in another
• Autofit a column worksheet
• Apply a cell style • Enter an AVERAGE function
• Add cell shading • Use the IF function
• Change font color • Apply date formats
• Merge and center text across cells • Apply Top Ten conditional formatting
• Apply bold formatting • Use an absolute reference in a formula
• Apply number formatting • Name a range of cells
• Enter a SUM function • Use a named range in a formula
• Copy formula using AutoFill • Use the MIN function in a formula
• Insert a pie chart • Use the MAX function in a formula
• Change the chart title • Wrap text
• Hide the chart legend • Analyze data with Goal Seek
• Show chart data labels • Use the VLOOKUP function in a formula
• Move a chart • Convert data into a table
• Insert a column chart • Apply a table Quick Style
• Switch the row/column in a column chart • Use the table Total row
• Apply a chart Quick Style • Sort data in a table
• Preview how a worksheet will look when • Filter data in a table
printed • Create a PivotTable
• Change worksheet orientation • Create a PivotChart

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IMPORTANT: Download the resource file needed for this project from the Resources link. Make sure to
extract the file after downloading the resources zipped folder. Visit the SIMnet Instant Help for step-by-step
instructions.
Step 1
Download 1. Open the start file EX2016-Capstone-Level3-Alternate. If the workbook opens in Protected View, click the
start file
Enable Editing button in the Message Bar at the top of the worksheet so you can modify it.
2. The file will be renamed automatically to include your name. Change the project file name if directed to do
so by your instructor, and save it.
Download
3. Copy the OldTownStore worksheet from the OldTownSales-Alternate workbook (downloaded from the
Resources
Resources link) to the capstone project.
a. Open the Excel file OldTownSales-Alternate.
b. Copy the worksheet OldTownStore. In the Move or Copy dialog, be sure to check the Create a copy
check box and select your capstone project Excel file from the Move selected sheets to book drop-
down list. Make the correct selection to ensure the copied worksheet will appear after the TysonsStore
worksheet in your capstone workbook.
c. Close the OldTownSales-Alternate workbook when you have successfully copied the OldTownStore
worksheet to the capstone workbook.
d. Before continuing, verify that you are working in the capstone project that you downloaded and not the
OldTownSales-Alternate workbook that you downloaded from the Resources link.
4. Insert a new worksheet and rename it: TruckSales
5. If necessary, move the TruckSales worksheet so it appears first in the workbook.
6. Enter the text and sales data as shown in Figure 1. Check your work carefully.

Figure 1

7. Format the data as follows:

a. Apply the Title cell style to cell A1.
b. Apply the Brown, Accent 6 fill color to cell A1.
c. Apply the White, Background 1 font color to cell A1.
d. Merge and center the worksheet title across cells A1:E1.
e. Apply the Heading 1 cell style to cell B2.
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f. Merge and center cells B2:E2.

g. Bold cells B3:E3.
h. Apply the Accounting Number Format with 0 digits after the decimal to cells B4:E6.
i. AutoFit columns A:E.
8. Calculate total sales for each of the truck locations.
a. Enter the word Total in cell A7.
b. Enter a SUM function in cell B7 to calculate the total of cells B4:B6.
c. Use AutoFill to copy the formula to cells C7:E7.
d. Apply the Total cell style to cells A7:E7.
9. Insert a pie chart (2-D Pie) to show the total sales for the month by location. Each piece of the pie should
represent the total sales for a single location. Note: You must complete this step correctly in order to receive
points for completing the next step. Check your work carefully.
10. Modify the pie chart as follows:
a. Change the chart title to: August Sales by Location
b. Hide the chart legend.
c. Display the chart data labels using the Data Callout option.
d. Move the chart so it appears below the sales data.
11. Insert a clustered column chart (2-D Column) to show the sales for each type of popcorn for each location.
Do not include the totals. Each location should be represented by a data series and the popcorn types should
be listed along the x axis. Note: You must complete this step correctly in order to receive points for
completing the next step. Check your work carefully.
12. Modify the column chart as follows:
a. Change the chart title to: August Sales by Popcorn Type
b. Apply the Style 7 chart Quick Style.
c. If necessary, move the chart so it is next to the pie chart and the top of the charts are aligned.
13. Preview how the worksheet will look when printed, and then apply print settings to print the worksheet on a
single page. Hint: If you have one of the charts selected, deselect it before previewing the worksheet.
Preview the worksheet again when you are finished to check your work.
a. Change the orientation so the page is wider than it is tall.
b. Change the margins to the preset narrow option.
c. Change the printing scale so all columns will print on a single page.
14. Top’t Corn is considering a new truck purchase. Calculate the monthly loan payments and total cost of the loan.
a. Insert a new worksheet between the TruckSales sheet and the OnlineSales sheets.
b. Name the new worksheet: Loan
c. Change the color of the worksheet tab to Teal, Accent 4.
d. Enter the loan terms as shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 2

e. AutoFit column A.
f. Set the width of column B to 16.
g. Apply the Currency number format to cell B1. Display two digits after the decimal.
h. Enter a formula using the PMT function in cell B5. Be sure to use a negative value for the
Pv argument.
i. In cell A6, type: Total payments
j. In cell B6, enter a formula to calculate the total paid over the life of the loan (the monthly payment
amount * the number of payments). Use cell references.
k. In cell A7, type: Interest paid
l. In cell B7, enter a formula to calculate the total interest paid over the life of the loan (the total payments
- the original price of the truck). Use cell references.
m. Apply borders using the Thick Outside Borders option around cells A5:B7.
n. In cell A9, type: Average sales
o. In cell B9, enter a formula to calculate the average sales per month for the truck locations. Hint: Use cells
B7:E7 from the TruckSales worksheet as the function argument.
p. Apply the Currency number format to cell B9. Display two digits after the decimal.
q. In cell A10, type: Buy new truck?
r. In cell B10, enter a formula using the IF function to display Buy it! if the monthly payment for the truck
loan is less than the average sales per month for the current trucks. Display Pass if it is not.
15. Complete the following steps in the TysonsStore worksheet:
a. Select cells A2:A32, and apply the Short Date date format.
b. Find the top ten sales items for the month. Select cells B2:D32 and use conditional formatting to apply a
green fill with dark green text to the top 10 values.
c. In cell F2, enter a formula to calculate the daily total in dollars. Multiply the value in the Daily Total (#
Sold) column by the current price per box in cell K1. Use an absolute reference where appropriate and
copy the formula to cells F3:F32.
d. In cell G2, enter a formula using the IF function to determine whether the daily sales goal in cell K2 was met.
Display yes if the value in the Daily Total ($) column is greater than or equal to the daily sales goal. Display
no if it is not. Use an absolute reference where appropriate and copy the formula to cells G3:G32.

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e. Create a named range DailySales for cells F2:F32.

f. In cell K3, enter a formula using the named range DailySales to calculate the average daily sales in
dollars.
g. In cell K4, enter a formula using the named range DailySales to find the lowest daily sales in dollars.
h. In cell K5, enter a formula using the named range DailySales to find the highest daily sales in dollars.
i. Wrap the text in cell J7.
j. Use Goal Seek to find the new price per box (cell K8) to reach a new daily sales goal of $1,800 in cell
K7. Accept the solution found by Goal Seek.
k. Create a named range SalesData for cells A2:G32.
l. In cell K10, enter 8/19/2016 as the lookup date.
m. In cell K11, enter a formula using VLOOKUP to display whether or not the sales goal was met for the date
listed in cell K10. Use the named range SalesData for the Table_array argument. The formula should return
the value in the Sales Goal Met? column (column 7 in the data array) only when there is an exact match.
16. Make a copy of the OnlineSales worksheet and name it PivotData. The PivotData worksheet should be
the last worksheet in the workbook.
17. Go to the OnlineSales worksheet and format the sales data as a table using the table style Sky Blue, Table
Style Light 2.

Go to the OnlineSales worksheet and format the sales data as a table using the table style
Table Style Light 2.
18. Display the table Total row.
a. Display the total for the Quantity column.
b. Remove the count from the State column.
19. Sort the data alphabetically by values in the Item column.
20. Filter the table to show only rows where the value in the State column is DC.
21. Create a PivotTable using the data in cells A3:D120 from the data in the PivotData worksheet. The
PivotTable should appear on its own worksheet. Use values from the Item column as the rows and the sum
of values in the Quantity column as the values.
22. Name the PivotTable worksheet: PivotTable It should be located to the left of the PivotData worksheet.
23. Insert a PivotChart on the PivotTable worksheet. Use a pie chart to represent the total quantity for each item.
If necessary, move the PivotChart to the right of the PivotTable so it does not cover the data.
Step 2 24. Save and close the workbook.
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Save 25. Upload and save your project file.
Step 3 26. Submit project for grading.
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