lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2016

5th practice. Excel: Sort&Filter, Find&Replace, mail merge.



Dear students,

I am glad to inform you that we are going to start our next practice.
So, please, be so kind to open the internet explorer and search in Google “Colegios públicos Excel”. Download the first file with an xls extension you find.
Next, open the file and save it with the name “TIC1/2a/b/c/…”.


After that, fulfill the following tasks:

1) Sort the data by these three criteria.



POST CODE
Smallest to largest
ACRONYM
A-Z
DENOMINATION
A-Z

 
2) Find “LA GOMERA” and replace with “LA GOMERA” shadowed in green color.


 
3) Create a dynamic table as shown in the image below.



4) Finally make a merge mail by using Word and Excel programs. I have included you a link to a Youtube video where you can learn easily how to do it.


 
To summarize, you have to follow the steps listed below:


a) Open the Word program and go to “Mailings”.

b) Click over “Start a merge mail”

c) Select a recipient and after that “Use an existing list” (use the Directorio sheet of your Excel document).

d) While writing your mail, when you need to insert a field, you have to click over “Insert merge fields”.

e) Once you have finish “Preview results”.

f) Finally click in “Finish and merge” and print the document using PDF Creator.
 
 

In the next image you can see the text you have to write and the fields needed to complete your work satisfactorily.




When you have finished the practice, please, upload in Google Drive your pdf and xls files and share them with me.

So good luck and take it easy!!!



lunes, 7 de noviembre de 2016

4 th practice: Excel Functions I



Digital company wants to make a statistic study of its sales force in Spain. The company has the information contained in the following table:


They also have a commissions table used to calculate commissions and bonus. The bands are the following ones:


 
So you will have to complete the tasks listed below:


1) Insert a title in red and Arial 12 letters. The title has to be the name of the company.

2) Improve the spreadsheet:

-  The letters of the column’s titles should be 12 green Comic sans.

-  Apply borders to the cells or even colors.

-  Apply currency format with two decimals to the sales column.

3) Calculate the commissions the sellers are going to obtain considering the bands established by the company.

4) Calculate the bonus the sellers are going to receive taking into account the bands of the table.

5) Obtain the total net sales of the company.

6) Calculate the salary of each employee.

The commissions and the bonus of each employee are difficult to calculate. So I recommend you to watch the video included for a clue and, if after all you don’t find the solution, ask me. I will be glad to help you. You will also need to use the tutorials included in the last practice.

So cheer up and don’t faint!