Getting started, practice and challenge activities for

spreadsheets - Answers

Cambridge IGCSE™ Information & Communication Technology

Getting Started
a. Student creates a spreadsheet structure accurately (See source file answer)
• Rows A1:F3 merged
1. Sets background colour to blue
2. Large title text in uppercase
3. Black foreground colour in title text
• Row 4 merged with white background
• Row 5 format as:
1. Yellow foreground
2. Text italic
b. Student saves the file with the correct file name

Practice
d. Student deletes the first 3 rows in the file.
e. Student adds a new column after the Price column with the name Discount_on_offer.
f. Student formats the top part of the spreadsheet accurately (See source file answer)
• Cells A1:G3 merged
• Background set as blue
• Foreground set as Red
• Title text in large font, uppercase and italic
• Row 4 height reduced
• Cells A4:G4 merged and background changed to blue
• Row 5 text set to bold
• Text direction set to angle counterclockwise
• Text in G5 wrapped and split on two lines
• Table borders visible
g. Student updates all platinum prices to 23 throughout the spreadsheet
h. Student saves the file with the correct file name
Challenge
j. Student edits the title text of the spreadsheet from Blue Diamond Events Report to
Customer Feedback.
k. Student sets the title text to:
• Bold and underlined
• 36pt font-size
• A sans-serif font
• Red foreground
l. Student unmerges the cells A1:H3.
m. Student deletes columns F:H
n. Student merges the cells A1:G3 and changes the background of the cells to a
dark blue colour.
o. Student formats the cells A4:G4 to:
• Bold and italic
• 12pt font-size
• A serif font
• Light blue background
p. Student inserts a new row after the last record.
q. Student changes the name of the column heading Number of events attended
to Events attended.
r. Student centre aligns all numeric values in the spreadsheet.
s. Student removes all borders from the spreadsheet.
t. Student changes the value of the column Happy for the record Bruce Mumba
from No to Yes.
u. Student saves the file with the correct file name