You have been hired to conduct some market research about M&M's. First, you had your team purchase 4 large bags and the results are given for the contents of those bags. You will summarize your findings on a worksheet created in Microsoft Excel and convert the numbers into charts.

Microsoft Excel 2007 Instructions:

Open Microsoft Excel:

Start > All Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Excel 2007

Create a New Workbook

Excel should open as a workbook. If not click the Office button and select New .

Select Blank Workbook:

Save Your Workbook

Click the Office button again and select Save As from the drop down menu and name your file Candy is Dandy. See the information below on how you want to save your document.

Entering Data Into Your Cells

Enter the data in the table below and don't worry about resizing the cells. Once you have entered the data the next section will tell you how to format the cells as indicated in your table below:

Formatting Your Cells:

Merge and Center Title:

Merge and Center Title Across Rows A1 - F1 by clicking in cell A1 and while holding down your left mouse drag and release your mouse in cell F1. Your Worksheet should now look like the graphic below:

Click the Merge and Center button on the Home tab:

To Apply Bold Formatting:

Click in the cell that contains the data you want to appear bold and on with the Home tab still selected click on the Bold icon .

To Change the Font Color:

Click in the cell that contains the data you want to change the font color of and on the Home tab and click on the font color icon arrow to drop down your font color options and select the color you need.

To Highlight a Cell:

Click in the cell that contains the data you want to highlight and click on the Highlight options arrow to display your highlight on the Home tab and select a highlight color:

To Center Align Data:

Click in the cell that contains the data you want to center align then click on the center align icon on the Home tab.

Inserting Formulas

You will now enter the total, minimum, maximum, and average functions into the cells listed in the table below. The data will appear in the following table.

You will place the following formulas in the cells as instructed below:

Averaging Numbers:

Place your cursor in the cell you want your formula to appear.

Click the Insert Function button:

At the Insert Function Dialog box click All and select Average:

Click OK. Next you will need to tell Excel which cells you want to reference. An easy way to do this is just by selecting the cells you want it to look at. Click on the Number1 function select icon shown below to select the cells you want to reference.

The Functions Argument box pops up. Now all you have to do is simply click and drag across the cells you want to average. Notice that the Function Arguments text box fills in the cells you have selected.

Click back on Function Argument select button:

This returns you back to the original Function Argument dialog box. Notice that the cells you selected now appear in your text box.

Now you will continue putting your formulas in the correct cells. The functions are listed as follows:

Total - Sum
Minimum - MIN
Maximum - MAX

The last thing is to center align the data in the cells.

Decreasing Decimal Points to None:

For this activity you will return to any cells that contain decimals. You will need to let Excel know that you only want whole numbers to be present. Notice the number below and how many decimal numbers are displayed after the decimal point:

With the home tab selected in the Numbers section you will see a Decrease Decimal icon shown below. You will need to click the decrease decimal button the number of times that there are numbers after the decimal point. In the above example it would be two because there are two numbers after the decimal point..

Make sure that all your formulas display with no decimal point.

Center align the data in the cell.

Creating Graphs:

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 no longer provides the chart wizard. Instead, you can create a basic chart by clicking the chart type that you want on the Ribbon.

In order to compare information graphically, you must choose the data to reflect in our graphs. The first data you will want to display graphically are the color name of the M & M's that were found in bag 1n (A4 - A9). You also want to display the actual number that was found in the bag (B4 - B9). You will then need to select both data to show it in your graphs.

To select the color name data, place you cursor in cell A4, press the left mouse button, and drag to select all the cells to A9. The next data will be the actual number found in column B. Hold down the Ctrl key before clicking in Cell B4, press the left mouse button, and drag to select all the cells to B9. You should see that both columns are highlighted blue.

On the Insert tab, in the Charts group, click the a chart subtype that you want to use. For this activity you will use the column chart.

With the chart still selected click the Title Layout which is Layout 1.

This adds a title placeholder on you chart that you can simply click in and type in your title, "Colored M & Ms Found in Bag 1."

Click on Series 1 on the right side of your chart and delete it.

Insert Chart in Separate Chart Sheet:

By default, the chart is placed on the worksheet as an embedded chart. If you want to place the chart in a separate chart sheet you can change its location by doing the following:

Click the embedded chart to select it. This displays the Chart Tools, adding the Design, Layout, and Format tabs.

On the Design tab, in the Location group, click Move Chart.

Under Choose where you want the chart to be placed select News sheet then type in a name for your chart, "Bag 1."

You will now be on a new worksheet titled Bag 1. Notice the worksheet names at the bottom left hand side of your document window.

Click back on Sheet1 to return to your worksheet that contains your data. Continue creating graphs to represent the data below:

• The number of colors found in Bag 1-Created Above
• The number of colors found in Bag 2
• The number of colors found in Bag 3
• The number of colors found in Bag 4
• The average compared for each colored M & M
• The totals compared for all bags
• The minimum compared for all bags
• The maximum compared for all bag

Microsoft Excel 2003 Instructions:

Open Excel by following the directions listed below:

Save Excel Worksheet:

Setting up the Worksheet and Inputting Data

Open a worksheet in Microsoft Excel. In cell A1, type the title Candy Is Dandy! Finish putting in the rest of the data in the table below into Excel. Then go back and merge your title to appear centered across your rows.

Moving Around in the Worksheet:

There are several methods that can be used to move through the worksheet:

Entering Data:

Data is entered into single cells. The cell that has been selected to enter data is called the active cell and is identified by a heavy border. Only one cell can be active at a time. To change the active cell, move the mouse pointer into a cell and just click. To enter data, simply click in the cell and then type in the information you want to appear in the cell. In this case, you would enter a letter in each cell.

Editing Data

Once you have entered data into a cell, that data can be edited by first clicking on the cell to make the cell active and then clicking on the formula bar above the worksheet. The formula bar is shown below:

This allows you to insert or delete characters in that cell. An alternate method of editing the contents of a cell is to click on the cell to make it the active cell and then press the [F2] function key at the top of the keyboard. You can delete the contents of a cell by clicking on the cell and pressing [Delete] on the keyboard.

Formatting Worksheet:

The formatting toolbar, shown below, allows you to format the contents of a highlighted cell in a number of ways. If this toolbar is not already visible on the screen, select View|Toolbars|Formatting from the menu bar.

Merging the Title:

Inserting Formulas

You will now enter the total, minimum, maximum, and average functions into the cells listed in the table below. The data will appear in the following table.

You will place the following formulas in the cells as instructed below:

You will use the function wizard option to enter the data. Click in the cell you want to enter the formula, and follow the steps below for each formula:

Total/Sum Function:

Maximum Function:

• Click in the cell you want your average function to appear in. The first average should appear in the cell F4.
• Click the function wizard button . This will open the Paste Function dialog box.
  
• Under the Function Category list, select All.
  
• Under the Function Name list, select AVERAGE from the choices.
  
• Click OK to close the Paste Function dialog box.
  
• The AVERAGE dialog opens. Click in the Number 1 text box and type in the first cell you want the results to be compare with. In this case we want the program to start looking at the data in row 4. The first set of data you want to compare starts in cell B4 and the last data to average is in cell E4. In the Number 1 text box, type B4:E4 to indicate the data span you want to use.
  Click OK to close the AVERAGE function dialog box. The average should now appear in cell F4.
• Continue entering the AVERAGE function in the cells listed in the table above (F5, F6, F7, F8, F9).
  

Creating Graphs

You will now use the Chart Wizard in Microsoft Excel to produce different charts and graphs that will display your data in a more visual way. In order to compare information graphically, you must choose the data to reflect in our graphs.