Week 6: Practice Challenge 1 - Charts

You work for an online book store that sells a lot of books. You have been asked to develop a dashbo
annually. To do this you will need to create several charts. You need to perform the following steps
* Calculate the missing totals in column S and row 30
* Create a Pie Chart to show sales by Region.
* Move the chart to the top left hand side of the sheet and resize it so it takes up about a quarter of
* Add the Chart Title "Regional Sales"
* Add labels that show percentage
To show the total sales by Genre we are going to have to select non-contiguous data (remember wee
* Select the ranges N17:R17 and N30:R30 (but not the cells between)
* Insert a Column chart (to make it more colourful: click Switch Row/Column on your Chart Tools De
* Move and resize the chart so it sits nicely between your pie chart and the data
* Add the chart title "Genre Sales"
* Change the Primary Vertical Axis display unit to "Millions"
* Move the Legend to Top
Finally let create a chart that will look at sales trends for the different genres from 2005 to 2016
* Select the range N17:R29 and press Alt+F1 (Fn+Option+F1 on a Mac) - you get an instant Column C
* Change the chart type to a Line Chart
* Move the line chart so that it sits nicely below the other charts and stretches the full width of the s
* Add the chart title "Genre Sales by FY"
* Show legend at right
* Change the Primary Vertical Axis display unit to "Millions"
* Make any formatting changes you think look good, sit back and admire your work.
Week 6: Practice Challenge 1 - Charts
INSTRUCTIONS

work for an online book store that sells a lot of books. You have been asked to develop a dashboard to assist the marketing ma
nually. To do this you will need to create several charts. You need to perform the following steps on the Sales Dashboard tab.
alculate the missing totals in column S and row 30
reate a Pie Chart to show sales by Region.
Move the chart to the top left hand side of the sheet and resize it so it takes up about a quarter of the space
dd the Chart Title "Regional Sales"
dd labels that show percentage
show the total sales by Genre we are going to have to select non-contiguous data (remember week 1) you will need to select th
elect the ranges N17:R17 and N30:R30 (but not the cells between)
sert a Column chart (to make it more colourful: click Switch Row/Column on your Chart Tools Design tab)
Move and resize the chart so it sits nicely between your pie chart and the data
dd the chart title "Genre Sales"
hange the Primary Vertical Axis display unit to "Millions"
Move the Legend to Top
ally let create a chart that will look at sales trends for the different genres from 2005 to 2016
elect the range N17:R29 and press Alt+F1 (Fn+Option+F1 on a Mac) - you get an instant Column Chart!
hange the chart type to a Line Chart
Move the line chart so that it sits nicely below the other charts and stretches the full width of the space
dd the chart title "Genre Sales by FY"
how legend at right
hange the Primary Vertical Axis display unit to "Millions"
Make any formatting changes you think look good, sit back and admire your work.

GREAT WORK!
 INSTRUCTIONS

to assist the marketing manager to compare sales across different regions and genres as well as track how sales are doing
he Sales Dashboard tab.

space

you will need to select the first range of data and then while holding your Control key select the next range of data.
tab)

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GREAT WORK!
how sales are doing

range of data.
 Elusive Books - 2016 Sa

Regional Sales Genre Sales

(in millions)
Romance SF Thriller Fantasy

14% 90000000
80000000
70000000
39%
60000000
24% 50000000
40000000
30000000
24% 20000000
10000000
0
NA LA APAC EMEA Total Sales

Genre Sales by FY
25000000

20000000

15000000 Romance
SF
Thriller
10000000 Fantasy

5000000

0
FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY FY
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Books - 2016 Sales Dashboard

Total Sales Electronic

es Format
(in millions) Print

ler Fantasy Print $1,650.8

Electronic $379.9

Total Sales EMEA

Market
(in millions)
APAC
NA $782.4
LA
LA $484.6
Sales
APAC $477.6 NA
EMEA $286.1 $0.0 $100.0 $200.0 $300.0 $400.0 $500.0 $600.0 $700.0 $800.0 $900.0

Fiscal Year Romance SF Thriller Fantasy

FY 2005 2338 7628 98264 420572
FY 2006 380524 232021 215582 299776
FY 2007 893247 757381 1644012 792374
FY 2008 1313058 1050545 1941438 773234
Romance FY 2009 2166248 1108182 2207421 977364
SF FY 2010 2904482 2006023 2393693 911444
Thriller FY 2011 5144538 2663885 4705965 1552692
Fantasy FY 2012 6795383 4107989 3485785 2664121
FY 2013 8665422 5785894 4304228 3036556
FY 2014 12820661 7932014 6189597 4277350
FY 2015 18598070 10680318 9937926 5730265
FY 2016 22042369 11620913 12995699 8108040
Total Sales 81726340 47952793 50119610 29543788
FY
5 2016
0.0 $600.0 $700.0 $800.0 $900.0

Year Total
528802
1127903
4087014
5078275
6459215
8215642
14067080
17053278
21792100
31219622
44946579
54767021
209342531