Chapter 1 - Excel - McGraw-Hill

Improve It Project 1-7
For this project, you create a flight schedule for the manager of Boyd Air. You edit and format the data
in a spreadsheet and add page layout formatting.
[Student Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8]
File Needed: BoydAirFlightSchedule-1.xlsx
Completed Project File Name: [your initials] Excel 1-7.xlsx
Skills Covered in This Project
• Open and save a workbook.
• Enter and format text and numbers.
• Merge and center title and subtitle.
• Format and delete rows and columns.
• Spell check.
• Use AutoSum to create a formula.
• Apply a theme and apply Cell Styles.
• Apply page layout options.
• Adjust column width and row height.
• Rename and apply color to sheet tabs.
• Freeze panes and change the zoom level.
1. Open the workbook BoydAirFlightSchedule-01.xlsx.
2. Rename the workbook [your initials] Excel 1-7.
3. Type Boyd Air in A1 and type Flight Schedule in A2.
4. Merge and center the title in cell A1 and the subtitle in cell A2.
5. Apply Cell Styles to the labels in the spreadsheet.
a. Apply the Title style to A1.
b. Apply the Heading 1 style to the subtitle in A2.
c. Apply the Accent 1 cell style to A4:F4.
d. Apply the 20%-Accent 1 cell style to A5:F13.
6. Apply formatting.
a. Increase the font size of A4:F4 to 14 pt.
b. Apply the Total cell style to cells A13:F13.
c. Bold the entries in A4:F4.
d. Select A4, C4, and D4, and click Wrap Text [Home tab, Alignment group].
7. Apply row and column formatting.
a. Change the row height for row 4 to 38.00.
b. Change the row height for row 13 to 21.00.
c. Right align the text in C4 and D4.
8. Delete row 12.
9. Use AutoSum to calculate the total number of passengers.
10. Color the sheet tab Dark Blue, Accent 1, Darker 50% (last color in the fifth Theme Color column).
11. Edit the sheet tab name by deleting Monday.
12. AutoFit columns A:F.
13. Spell check the worksheet.
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Excel 2013 Chapter 1 Creating and Editing Workbooks