Chapter 1 - Excel - McGraw-Hill

Independent Project 1-6
You have been hired as the accounts receivable clerk for a privately owned accounting company
called Livingood Income Tax & Accounting. It is your job to track all the payments from clients every
day. Your supervisor has requested that you convert your payment table to an Excel spreadsheet.
[Student Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8]
File Needed: None
Completed Project File Name: [your initials] Excel 1-6.xlsx
Skills Covered in This Project
• Create and save a workbook.
• Enter text and numbers.
• Change font size and attributes.
• Use AutoSum.
• Adjust column width and row height.
• Spell check.
• Apply Freeze Panes.
• Change zoom level.
• Apply a theme and Cell Styles.
• Apply page layout options.
• Hide a row.
• Rename and apply color to sheet tabs.
1. Start a new workbook and save it as [your initials] Excel 1-6.
2. Apply the Organic theme to the worksheet. Change the theme font to Gill Sans MT.
3. Select A1 and type Livingood Income Tax and Accounting, press Enter, type Payment Schedule,
and press Enter again.
4. Type in the remaining worksheet
data from Figure 1-108.
5. Edit the title in A1 to replace the
word “and” with the symbol &.
6. Edit the value in cell B5 to
451.25. Change “Over Due” in
cell F4 to Overdue.
7. Apply the Title style to A1.
8. Apply formatting to cell ranges.
a. Increase the font size of
1-108 Excel 1-6 data
A4:G11 to 12 pt.
b. Select cells B5:B11 and display the Format Cells dialog box. Select the Accounting format and
change the Symbol to None.
9. Add the title Total in cell A13 and calculate the total for B13 using AutoSum. Adjust the cell range
reference in the Formula bar.
10. Apply additional formatting.
a. Apply the Total cell style to cells A13:G13.
b. Select A13:G13 and increase the font size to 12 pt.
c. Bold the entries in A4:G4.
d. Center the data in A4:G4, A5:A13, D5:D13, and F5:F13.
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