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ACADEMIC TASK NO. 1

Mittal School of Business Faculty of Business and Applied Arts

Name of the faculty Member: Dr. Mushtaq Ahmad Shah Max. Marks: 30 Course

Course Code: MGN251 Title: Spreadsheet Modeling

Section: Q2110 Roll No.: 12114152

Date of Allotment: 07-02-2022 Last Date of Submission: 13-02-2022

Learning Outcomes: (Student to write briefly about learnings obtained from the
academic tasks)

1. This assignment helped me in learning about the Mintzberg rules of management

2. This assignment helped me in upgrading my leadership and managerial skills.
DECLARATION: -

I declare that this Assignment is my individual work. I have not copied it from any other students’
work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement is made explicitly in the text, nor
has any part been written for me by any other person.

Evaluation Criterion: Rubrics on different parameters

Student’ Signature: -

Evaluator’s Comments (For Instructor’s use only)

General Observations Suggestions for Improvement Best part of assignment

Evaluator’s Signature and Date: -

QUESTION 1. BY CREATING A DATASET OF 100 ROWS AND 5 COLUMNS, SHOW
HOW FILTER CAN BE USED IN EXCEL AND EXPLAIN THE STEPS. DIFFERENT
CRITERIA SHOULD BE USED TO DEMONSTRATE ITS USE.

❖ SOLUTION 1. STEP 1: - Open a excel and insert the table in the excel and add the data
that have with you.

HOW TO APPLY THE FILTER THE EXCEL: -

❖ STEP 2: - Then keep the cursor in the data and add filter. Now here you can apply
filter by 4 methods,
1. CTRL+SHIFT+L
2. Go to home tab click sort and filter and then click filter. As u can see in the
image below.
3. Go to data tab and click filter. As shown in the image below.

4. Keep the cursor in the data and select the data you created and hit alt on your
key board once and you will get some alphabet on the above (as shown in the
below image).
 ➢ Then hit the ‘A’ in your keyboard then data interface will be open and then hit ‘T’
in your keyboard. As shown in below image.

HOW FILTER CAN BE USED IN EXCEL: -

1. THIS IS TO FILTER DATES:

❖ If you want to sort your any data from A-Z from Z-A, just hit the header arrow and hit sort
oldest to newest or newest to oldest. As shown in the below image.

❖ Now we can use the date filter to see the entries of today, tomorrow, yesterday, months,
quarter, years, etc. As shown in the image given below.
❖ We can see the entries of the specific year by deselecting the select all and selecting the
specific year, as shown in the below image.

2. THIS IS TO FILTER THE REGION: -

❖ We can sort region from A-Z and Z-A by hitting the header arrow, as shown the image
given below.
❖ Here we can filter region on the basis of text filter for example we can get the entries begin
with any alphabet, so here we have taken begins with c, we will get the entries of the region
begins with c, as shown in the image given below.
 ❖ Now we can see the entries of region starting with ‘C’ is shown and rest were hidden
as we can see in the left side after number 6 directly the number 11 is visible this is
because the entries between 6 to 11 are not starting from C.
❖ Here same we can do with ‘ends with’ any alphabets.

❖ Here if u want to remove or clear the filter from the ‘REGION’ we can do this by hitting
the header arrow and clear filter, as shown in the below image.
 ❖ Now we can see all the entries that were hidden due to filter after clear or remove the
filter.
❖ This is all about the basic filter, now there is advance filter let see how it works.

❖ ADVANCE FILTER:

❖ Now here we have all data or entries now we want to separate data or entries with region
in east so here we can keep the cursor between the data and go to data tab and hit the
advance button, as shown in the image below.
❖ Here we will get another popup tab will open named as advanced filter.
➢ In this we have to change the action to ‘COPY TO ANOTHER LOCATION’.

➢ As we can see here list range is already selected, so keep it as like that.
➢ Now click on the criteria range, here we have to select the cells ‘L1&L2’, as shown in
the image given below.
➢ Now select the any empty cell or location in the same sheet where we want to separate
the region with east, as shown in the image given below.
 ➢ Now we can see here the region with east only has been separated.
❖ Now if we have to separate the ‘REGION WITH WEST AND REP WITH SORVINO’.
➢ Here we have to follow the same procedure that we have followed in the above case
but here the change will be in criteria range.
➢ Here we have to select ‘2ROWS AND 2 COLUMNS’ that is ‘L1, L2, M1&M2’. As
shown in the image given below.

➢ Then select the location or empty cell where we want to extract the particular data from
the whole entries.
➢ Here we can see the data with ‘REGION WITH WEST AND REP WITH
SORVINO’ were copied out.
❖ Here another use of advanced filter is if we want to extract the data or entries > OR<
than any number we can do that for example here we can see.
➢ I want to extract the unit <50 so here,
o STEP 1: Keep your cursor between the entries and hit the data tab.
o STEP 2: Data tab clicks on the advanced filter and then a popup is opened
named as advanced filter.

o STEP 3: Change the action to ‘COPY TO ANOTHER LOCATION’.

o STEP 4: Then select the criteria range that is in this case ‘L1&L2’.
 o STEP 5: Then select the empty cell or the location we have to extract the data,
as shown in the image given below.

➢ Now here we can observe that the units below 50 OR <50 are extracted.
➢ Now this how we can extract the data by applying filter.
QUESTION 2: HOW TO LOCK A SPECIFIC CELLS IN An EXCEL WORKSHEET,
THERE MIGHT BE TIMES WHEN YOU WANT TO LOCK CERTAIN CELLS FROM
BEING CHNAGED BUT STILL ALLOW USERS TO ADJUST OTHER CELLS IN A
WORKSHEET. EXPLAIN WITH RELEVENT EXAMPLES.

SOLUTION 2:

STEPS LOCK THE SPECIFIC CELLS AND UNLOCK THE ENTIRE SHEET.
STEP 1 SELECT THE ENTIRE SHEET
STEP 2 UNLOCK THE ENTIRE SHEET
STEP 3 LOCK THE SPECIFIC CELLS
STEP 4 PROTECT THE SHEET

❖ Open the excel and upload the data.

➢ STEP 1: right click on the sheet number and select the unprotect sheet, then enter the
password. As shown below.

➢ STEP 2: Select the entire sheet, now here we have 2 methods to select the entire sheet,
o First is by shortcut keys that is [CTRL + A], twice to select the entire sheet (if
we click once it will select only the cell on which the cursor is their).
o Secondly it is done by click on the Left Top Corner of the sheet where a small
triangle is there. As shown in the image given below.
➢ STEP 3: unlock the entries sheet from format cell, now we can open the format cells
by 3 ways.
o First is by after selecting the entire sheet right click in the sheet and click format
cells.
o Secondly it can be done by hit the home tab then click the format and then at
last click the format cells, as shown in the image given below.

o Third way is the shortcut key method, it is executed by clicking [CTRL+1],

then the ‘FORMAT CELLS’ popup will open, as shown below.

o Now click on the protection tab and deselect the LOCKED TICK BOX and
press ‘OK’, as shown below in the given image.
➢ STEP 4: ‘LOCK THE SPECIFIC CELL’, first we have to select the specific cells that
we have to lock, after selecting the cells again open the ‘FORMAT CELLS’ popup and
click the ‘PROTECTION TAB’ and select the ‘LOCKED TICK BOX’, as shown.
➢ STEP 5: PROTECT THE SHEET, to do this right click on the on-Sheet Number visible
at the bottom of the excel sheet and select the PROTECT SHEET and enter the
password and click the ‘OK’, as shown below.
EXAMPLE: -

❖ Now we have followed the same procedure on my data in excel sheet that is from
E4:E14&K4:K14.
❖ Now after apply the above instruction, now we clicked on the specific cell that we have
locked, now it shows error and won’t allow me to change the text in the locked cells,
as shown below.

❖ But if click on the other cells other than the specific protected cells we are able to
change, as shown below image in cell ‘B17’.