SIMnet 2016: Excel 2016 Capstone Project Level 1

Excel 2016 Capstone Project EX-1

Working with Sales Data
In this project, you will work with sales data from Top’t Corn, a popcorn company with an online store,
multiple food trucks, and one store in a local shopping mall. You will begin by entering sales data for the four
food truck locations, formatting the data, and calculating totals. You will create a pie chart to represent the total
units sold by location and a column chart to represent sales by popcorn type. You will format the charts, and
then set up the worksheet for printing. Next, you will help Top’t Corn analyze a new truck loan by calculating
the total cost of the loan and the interest paid over the life of the loan. Finally, working with the daily sales data
for the brick-and-mortar store you will calculate the sales for each date, and the average, minimum, and
maximum sales.

Skills needed to complete this project:

• Insert a worksheet • Move a chart
• Name a worksheet • Insert a column chart
• Move a worksheet • Switch the row/column in a column chart
• Enter text • Apply a chart Quick Style
• Enter numbers • Preview how a worksheet will look when
• Edit text printed
• Apply a cell style • Change worksheet orientation
• Merge and center text across cells • Scale a worksheet for printing
• Add cell shading • Change the color of a worksheet tab
• Change font color • Apply a column width
• Apply bold formatting • Enter a simple formula using multiplication
• Apply number formatting • Enter a simple formula using subtraction
• Autofit a column • Add cell borders
• Enter a SUM function • Use an absolute reference in a formula
• Copy formula using AutoFill • Enter an AVERAGE function
• Insert a pie chart • Use the MIN function in a formula
• Change the chart title • Use the MAX function in a formula
• Hide the chart legend • Close a workbook
• Show chart data labels

Step 1
Download 1. Open the start file EX2016-Capstone-Level1. If the workbook opens in Protected View, click the Enable
start file Editing button in the Message Bar at the top of the worksheet so you can modify it.
2. The file will be renamed automatically to include your name. Change the project file name if directed to
do so by your instructor, and save it.
3. Insert a new worksheet and rename it: Trucks
4. If necessary, move the Trucks worksheet so it appears first in the workbook.
5. Enter the text and sales data as shown in Figure 1.

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Figure 1

6. Format the data as follows:

a. Apply the Accent4 cell style to cell A1.
b. Merge and center cells A1:E1.
c. Apply the Blue, Accent 5 fill color to cell B2.
d. Apply the White, Background 1 font color to cell B2.
e. Merge and center cells B2:E2.
f. Bold cells B3:E3.
g. Apply the Accounting Number Format with 0 digits after the decimal to cells B4:E6.
h. AutoFit columns A:E.
7. Calculate total sales for each of the truck locations.
a. Enter the word Total in cell A7.
b. Enter a SUM function in cell B7 to calculate the total of cells B4:B6.
c. Use AutoFill to copy the formula to cells C7:E7.
d. Apply the Total cell style to cells A7:E7.
8. Insert a 2-D pie chart to show the total sales for Old Bay popcorn for the month by location. Each piece
of the pie should represent the Old Bay sales for a single location. Note: You must complete this step
correctly in order to receive points for completing the next step. Check your work carefully.
9. Modify the pie chart as follows:
a. Change the chart title to: June Old Bay Sales
b. Hide the chart legend.
c. Display the chart data labels. Use the Data Callout option.
d. Move the chart so it appears below the sales data.
10. Insert a 2-D clustered column chart to show the sales for each type of popcorn for each location. Do not
include the totals. Each location should be represented by a data series and the popcorn types should be listed
along the x axis. Hint: You may need to switch the row/column after inserting the chart. Note: You must
complete this step correctly in order to receive points for completing the next step. Check your work carefully.
11. Modify the column chart as follows:
a. Change the chart title to: June Sales by Popcorn Type

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b. Apply the Style 2 chart Quick Style.

c. If necessary, move the chart so it is next to the pie chart and the top of the charts are aligned.
12. Preview how the worksheet will look when printed, and then apply print settings to print the worksheet on
a single page. Hint: If you have one of the charts selected, deselect it before previewing the worksheet.
Preview the worksheet again when you are finished to check your work.
a. Change the orientation so the page is wider than it is tall.
b. Change the printing scale so all columns will print on a single page.
13. Top’t Corn is considering a new truck purchase. Calculate the total cost of the loan.
a. Change the color of the Loan worksheet tab to Gold, Accent 4.
b. Set the width of column B to 16.
c. In cell B6, enter a formula to calculate the total paid over the life of the loan (the monthly payment
amount in cell B5 * the number of payments in cell B2). Use cell references.
d. In cell B7, enter a formula to calculate the total interest paid over the life of the loan (the total
payments in cell B6 - the original price of the truck in cell B1). Use cell references.
e. Apply a border around cells A5:B7. Use the Thick Outside Borders option.
14. Complete the following steps in the TysonsStore worksheet:
a. In cell F2, enter a formula to calculate the daily total in dollars. Multiply the value in the Daily Total
(# sold) column by the current price per box in cell H1. Use an absolute reference where appropriate
and copy the formula to cells F3:F31.
b. In cell H3, enter a formula to calculate the average daily sales in dollars.
c. In cell H4, enter a formula to find the lowest daily sales in dollars.
d. In cell H5, enter a formula to find the highest daily sales in dollars.

Step 2 15. Save and close the workbook.

Upload &
Save 16. Upload and save your project file.

Step 3 17. Submit project for grading.

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