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EXERCISE 4 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT A real estate agency called SmartHouse is specialized in selling and renting properties across

the country. For a more efficient management, the agency decided to computerize its real

estate transactions. It starts by conceiving a file capturing property and customer details.

Property details include commodity data such as swimming pool, and financial ones such as

the price and the insurance that represent the input for the mortgage calculation as shown

in the below table. Note a property is identified by a number from 112 to 117, and both the

house price and insurance rate are depending on the house type.

2. REQUIREMENTS The details of properties 112, …, 117 required by the real estate agency are depicted by the below table. Thus, you should develop an Excel worksheet that organize, calculate and store the property details in form and content exactly as shown by the table. Note the facts shown in the table represent the input whereas the locations indicated by a mark question represent information resulting from appropriate calculations using formulas and

functions.

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3. MAIN OBJECTIVES (NOTE ADDED ACTIVITIES ARE HIGHLIGHTED) The present assignment allows students learning and understanding the different items and

topics using Excel, including:

Absolute Cell Referencing

Working with the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP Function

Working multiple worksheets,

Working with Zoom in Zoom out, Freeze, unfreeze, hide, unhide, copy and rename of a worksheet.

4. ACTIVITIES

Rename the worksheet to “SmartVille1”.

Zoom in and out the work sheet to 200% and then to 75% respectively.

Color the new name tab in green color.

Name the cell range A13:B17 as Price.

Find Swimming Pool, if the house type is 1 then print “yes” otherwise leave it blank.

Using VLOOKUP, find Price base on Type.

Using HLOOKUP, find the Insurance rate for each type.

Find Insurance: Insurance = Price * Insurance Rate.

Find Total Mortgage: Total Mortgage = Price + Insurance.

Freeze family name column and scroll the worksheet to the right.

Freeze row one of the table (the header row of the table) and scroll downward?

Copy Smartville1 worksheet and rename the new worksheet SmartVille2. Color its name tab blue.

Change the insurance rates of the new smartVille2 worksheet to 7.5%, 5%, and 2.5% and see how the last three columns changed automatically.

Display SmarteVille1 and SmartVille2 at on the same window.

Hide SmartVille2 worksheet , and then Hide smartVille1worksheet.

Unhide SmartVille1 sheet and delete SmartVille2 sheet.

5. NEED HELP? Read Excel tutorials:

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2010/

Solution Next

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Solution (Check Excel Solution)

Smart Ville Compound

House Numbe

r

Family Name

Type

Swimming Pool

Price Insurance Rate

Insurance

Total Mortgag

e

112 Silverson 1 yes 120000 0.05 6000 126000

113 Hulkenburg 3 60000 0.035 2100 62100

114 Montgomery 1 yes 120000 0.05 6000 126000

115 Richardson 2 100000 0.02 2000 102000

116 Williams 3 60000 0.035 2100 62100

117 davidson 1 yes 120000 0.05 6000 126000

House Price

Insurance Rates

Type Price

Type 1 2 3

3 60000

Rate 5% 2% 3.50%

2 100000

1 120000

1) Add a background color to a sheet tab To change the color of a sheet tab, right-click the tab, point to Tab

Color and pick a color that you want.

Tip: Click away from the formatted tab to see the new tab color.

If you want to remove the color, right-click the tab, point to Tab Color, and

pick No Color.

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2) Zoom in and zoom out of the worksheet.

You can use the Zoom control at the bottom-right of the Excel window, at the very right-hand side of the status bar. Just drag the control to the left or to the right and Excel adjusts the size of what you see on the screen.

You can also see a selection of different zooming options by displaying the Zoom dialog box. There are two ways you can display the dialog box:

o Display the View tab of the ribbon and click the Zoom tool in the Zoom group.

o Click the Zoom Level percentage shown just to the left of the Zoom control at the bottom-right of the Excel window. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Zoom dialog box.

3) Freeze/Unfreeze columns or rows in a worksheet (See Fig.

2)

If you are working on a large spreadsheet, it can be useful to “freeze” certain rows or columns so that they stay on screen while you scroll through the rest of the sheet. As you’re scrolling through large sheets in Excel, you might want to keep some rows or columns—like headers, for example—in view. Excel lets you freeze things in one of three ways:

A) Freeze the top Row

A) You can freeze the leftmost column.

B) You can freeze a pane that contains multiple rows or multiple columns—or even freeze a group of columns and a group of rows at the same time.

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C) The top row in our example sheet is a header that might be nice to keep in view as you scroll down. Switch to the “View” tab, click the “Freeze Panes” dropdown menu, and then click “Freeze Top Row.”

D) Now, when you scroll down the sheet, that top row stays in view.

E) To reverse that, you just have to unfreeze the panes. On the “View” tab, hit the “Freeze Panes” dropdown again, and this time select “Unfreeze Panes.”

B) Freeze the Left Row

Sometimes, the leftmost column contains the information you’ll want to keep on screen as you scroll to the right on your sheet. To do that, switch to the “View” tab, click the “Freeze Panes” dropdown menu, and then click “Freeze First Column.”

Figure 2

C) To freeze rows: You may want to see certain rows or columns all the time in your

worksheet, especially header cells. By freezing rows or columns in

place, you'll be able to scroll through your content while continuing

to view the frozen cells.

1. Select the row below the row(s) you want to freeze. Suppose

we want to freeze rows 1 and 2, so we'll select row 3.

2. On the View tab, select the Freeze Panes command, then

choose Freeze Panes from the drop-down menu.

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3. The rows will be frozen in place, and indicated by the gray line. You

can scroll down the worksheet while continuing to view the frozen rows at the

top.

D) To freeze columns: Select the column to the right of the column(s) you want

to freeze. If we want to freeze column A, so we'll select

column B. Then follow steps 2 and 3.

4) Hide a worksheet 1. Select the worksheets that you want to hide.

To select Do this

A single

sheet

Click the sheet tab.

If you don't see the tab that you want, click the tab scrolling buttons to display

the tab, and then click the tab.

Two or more

adjacent

sheets

Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down SHIFT while you click the tab

for the last sheet that you want to select.

Two or

more

nonadjacent

sheets

Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down CTRL while you click the tabs

of the other sheets that you want to select.

All sheets in

a workbook

Right-click a sheet tab, and then click Select All Sheets on the shortcut menu.

Or do the following (See figure 3)

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Figure 3

5) To delete (Rename, Copy) a worksheet: Right-click the worksheet you want to Rename /delete, then

select Rename/Delete from the worksheet menu.

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6) To open a new window for the current workbook:

Excel allows you to open multiple windows for a single

workbook at the same time. In our example, we'll use this feature

to compare two different worksheets from the same workbook.

1. Click the View tab on the Ribbon, then select

the New Window command.

2. A new window for the workbook will appear.

3. You can now compare different worksheets from the same

workbook across windows.

4. If you have several windows open at the same time, you can

use the Arrange All command to rearrange them quickly.