Exercise two Day 2:

We will be making some changes to an existing spreadsheet. Make sure you are on sheet 1 of the workbook.

1. Enter the City name in cell A1 so the title of the spreadsheet is Weather Tracking Your City. Do this by double clicking on A1. You should see your cursor blinking. Now type Roland Park in front of the words Weather tracking.

2. Replace the high and low temperatures on the spreadsheet with the high and low temperatures for your city. The data for this is below:

3. As you replace the numbers, the mean temperature for the week should also change.

4. Now, once you have entered all the data, lets make a column chart for the data. Click cell A2, hold the left mouse button, click and drag until you get cell H4. You have selected the range A2:H4.

5. Now, click on the insert ribbon, then click on the column icon.

6. Now select the type of graph you want. You decide which one you like:

7. After you click on the type of graph you want, it will show up on your excel sheet.

8. Now, customize the chart. Remember to click on the graph. When you do this a new ribbon appears at the top of your page. This is the design ribbon. To customize your chart, you can click on the chart layout tab on the design ribbon and on the chart styles tab on the same ribbon.

If you click on individual items on the chart, you can then right click on the item and change the individual colors if you’d like. Instructions for how to do this are below:

If you are feeling particularly creative, you can even change the colors of your graph around. Simply click on any item in the graph. You will see little dots show up around the objects you clicked.

Now, right click with your mouse. You will see a menu that looks like this:

Now just click on the upside triangle by the bucket.

Now you will see a selection of colors. Pick the color you want. Whoo-hoo!Look at you!

Exercise two:

For this activity you will use a spreadsheet to determine how many people per square mile various States have. The Population spreadsheet has been completed for the 10 Largest States. You will create new cells in the 10 Smallest States spreadsheet to reflect the number of people per square mile.

1. Click sheet 2 of your workbook.2. Now we will make a spreadsheet that looks similar to the one that is on the sheet. Move

your mouse and click cell A18.3. In A18, type the words Number of People and Size of State. Now after you type it, drag

your mouse from cell A18-d18.

4) Now click on the merge and center tool on the home ribbon.

Now your screen should look like this:

4. Now click on the merged cell. You should see a box around the words. Move your mouse cursor to the font tab on the home ribbon and then click on the font size tool.(upside down triangle next to the number 10)

Click on the number 20. This will make the title the same size as the title above.

5. Now starting on A19 and create the following columns and rows for your spreadsheet:

State Population Size in Square Miles

South Carolina

West Virginia

Maryland

Vermont

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

New Jersey

Hawaii

Connecticut

Delaware

6. Now type in the following data:

State Population Size in Square MilesSouth Carolina 4,012,012 30,111West Virginia 1,808,344 24,087

Maryland 5,296,486 9,775Vermont 608,827 9,249

New Hampshire 1,235,786 8,969Massachusetts 6,349,097 7,838

New Jersey 8,414,350 7,418Hawaii 1,211,537 6,423

Connecticut 3,405,565 4,845Delaware 783,600 1,955

Rhode Island 1,048,319 1,045

7. After you type in your data, move your mouse to A30 and they type Total ten smallest states.

8. Now, highlight all the data in column b. (B20-B29).

9. Now click on the auto sum tool on the home ribbon.

10. Repeat this step with the data from column c.(C20-C29)11. Now click on the entire row 30. (click on the number thirty. This will highlight the entire

row.12. Now click on the insert tool on the home ribbon. (It is in the cell tab) Then click on insert

cells. This will add a row above. (Now the spreadsheet chart looks similar.)

13. Last step. Lets make both our tables have the same number of columns. Click on column d.(Actually click on the letter d. That will highlight the whole column).

14. Now click on the delete tool on the cells tab of the home ribbon.

Wahoo!