DAY 12:

MICROSOFT EXCEL

(CHAPTER 8, 9, 10)

Daksha Yadav

daksha.yadav@mail.wvu.edu

September 25, 2013

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Homework #3 due on Friday, 27th

• Homework Help Live! for HW #3 tomorrow

• HW #1 grades posted

• Exam #1 next week

– Section 15: Oct 2nd

– Section 17: Sept 30th

– Duration: 60 mins

– Arrive 10 mins before beginning of the class

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WHAT-IF ANALYSIS

• 3 important tools which enable to perform “what-if”

analysis

• Enables you to see how changes in variables affect

calculated results

• A variable is a value that can be changed or to see how

those changes impact other values

• An independent variable is one that can be controlled

directly, such as the price of an item

• A dependent variable is one that may vary such as the

number of items sold

CREATE A ONE-VARIABLE DATA TABLE

• A one-variable data table is a data-analysis tool that provides various results based on changing one variable

• Two important elements:

– Input cells contain values to be modified for what-if analysis

– Result cells contain values to be modified

EXAMPLE

• Calculate the Payment Amount using

„PMT‟ function

• And calculate total payment=B6*B4

• Total interest is =B7-B1

CREATE A ONE-VARIABLE DATA

TABLE

• In C12 type =B6

• In D12 type =B7

• In E12 type =B8

• In cell B13 and B14 type .06 and .065

• AutoFill cells through B17

• Format cells B13:B17 as percentage with

2 decimal places

CREATE A ONE-VARIABLE DATA

TABLE(CONTD)

• Create a data table by selecting cells

B12:E17

• Select column input as cell B2

• Now table shows how changes in the

interest rate for loan affect the monthly

payment, total payments and total interest

TWO VARIABLE DATA TABLE

• Similar to a one variable data table

• Can manipulate two different variables.

• Interest rate changes and the loan amount

of the car changes.

CREATE A TWO-VARIABLE DATA

TABLE

• In cell H11 type =B6

• In cell H12 and H13 type .06 and .065

• Now autofill cells through H16

• Format cells H12:H16 as Percentage with

2 decimal places

• In cell I11 and J11 type 20000 and 25000

• Select cells H11:J16 and insert a data

table

• Column input cell:B2

• Row input cell:B1

• Now this table shows how changes in the

interest rate and the loan amount affect

the monthly payment.

CREATE A TWO-VARIABLE DATA

TABLE

GOAL SEEK

• Is a method of finding the solution to

problems

“Can I afford this”

• Enables you to work backwards to solve a

problem

• Set the end result to determine the input to

produce the result.

GOAL SEEK( CONTD.)

• Example:

Want to buy a car, thinking of a monthly payment of $200

Goal seek is used to determine the most you can borrow to keep that monthly payment.

• Set Cell-cell to be optimized

• To Value-result you want to achieve

• By Changing Cell-value of variable to be adjusted

SCENARIO MANAGER

• Scenario Manager is designed to work with several sets of assumptions called as scenarios.

• These enable to quickly compare the results of multiple scenarios.

• Each scenario represents different sets of what if conditions to be considered in assessing the outcome of the spreadsheet models

SCENARIOS

• We could present our results as a Summary if

we wanted to.

• Click on Data – What if Analysis – Scenario

Manager

• Click Summary

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GROUPING AND UNGROUPING

WORKSHEETS

• All worksheets

• Adjacent worksheets use SHIFT

• Non Adjacent worksheets use CTRL

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WORKSHEET REFERENCE

• Pointer to a cell in another worksheet

• Syntax :

„Worksheet_name‟!Range_Of_Cells

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3D FORMULA

• Formula or function that refers to the same

range in multiple worksheets.

• Select cell B2 in sheet 1

• Type =SUM(

• Click sheet 2, press and hold shift and

then click sheet 3 and select cell A1

• The formula becomes

=SUM(Sheet2:Sheet3!A1)

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INSERTING HYPERLINKS

• Hyperlink is an electronic marker to

another location in a worksheet,

workbook, file, web page or email.

• Select B1 Insert ribbon Hyperlink in

the Links group

• Type J4:J20 in the Type the cell reference

box and click OK.

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TEMPLATES, THEMES AND

STYLES

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SELECTING A TEMPLATE

• Template is a special workbook file used

as a model to create similarly structured

workbooks

• File -> New

• Search for template

• Select one

• Preview of selected template

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APPLYING THEMES AND

BACKGROUNDS

• A theme is a collection of colors, fonts, and special effects.

• Page Layout ribbon

• Themes

• Select one

• A background is an image that appears behind the worksheet data onscreen

• Page Layout ribbon

• Background -> select desired file

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