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A Skills Approach: Excel 2013 Chapter 5: Adding Charts and Analyzing Data

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challenge yourself 5.3 In this project, you will analyze shoe sales data and use what-if analysis to determine your commission potential and your sales goal.

Skills needed to complete this project:

 Converting Data into Tables

 Adding Total Rows to Tables

 Removing Duplicate Rows from Tables

 Filtering Data

 Sorting Data

 Inserting a Line Chart

 Filtering Chart Data

 Moving a Chart

 Filtering Table Data with Slicers

 Creating PivotTables Using Recommended PivotTables

 Creating a PivotChart from a PivotTable

 Showing and Hiding Chart Elements

 Inserting Sparklines

 Analyzing Data with Data Tables

 Analyzing Data with Goal Seek

1. Open the start file EX2013-ChallengeYourself-5-3. 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.

2. If the workbook opens in Protected View, enable editing so you can make changes to the workbook.

***Note: You must complete steps 3-6 correctly in order to receive points for completing

the next step. Check your work carefully.

3. Convert the shoe sales data in the Sales worksheet into a table.

a. Use the Table Style Light 9 table style.

b. Add a Total row to the table to display the total for the Total Sale column. In addition

display the average for the # of Pairs and the Price per Pair columns.

c. Use the Remove Duplicates command to delete any rows in the table that have duplicate data

in all the columns.

4. Filter to show just the sales for the California region.

5. Sort the table by order date with the newest orders first.

6. Insert a line chart to show the total sale amount for each order by order date.

a. There was an ordering glitch on April 26 that caused a spike in sales. Apply a filter to the

chart to hide orders from that date.

b. If necessary, move the chart so it does not cover the table data.

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A Skills Approach: Excel 2013 Chapter 5: Adding Charts and Analyzing Data

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7. Add a slicer to the table so you can filter by shoe name. Use the slicer to display data for the Avone shoe only. Notice the effect on the chart.

8. Create a PivotTable from the data in the Sales worksheet. Use the Sum of Price per Pair by Region recommended PivotTable.

a. Modify the PivotTable so the Price Per Pair data are averaged, not totaled.

b. Add the Shoe field to the PivotTable. It should appear in the Rows section below the

Region field.

c. Format all the values in the PivotTable using the Accounting Number Format.

9. Create a column PivotChart based on the PivotTable data. Use the first recommended column chart type.

a. Hide the chart title and legend.

b. If necessary, move the PivotChart on the worksheet so it does not cover the PivotChart data.

10. Go to the By Region worksheet and add Column Sparklines in F3:F7 for data in columns B3:E7.

11. You have been told you will receive a commission between 5 and 10 percent. On the Commission sheet, make a one-variable data table using cells A4:B14 to determine how much

that commission may be. The column input cell is A4.

12. You owe $12,000 in student loans and would like to pay it all off with your commissions. Use Goal Seek to determine the amount you must sell (cell G5) in order for cell G3 (your

commission) to equal $12,000 so you can fully pay off your student loans. Accept the Goal

Seek solution.

13. Save and close the workbook.

14. Upload and save your project file.

15. Submit project for grading.

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