Your Office - Excel Workshop 4: Homework Project 1 Express Car Rental

Express Car Rental

Project Description: 
Thomas Reynolds is the corporate buyer for vehicles put into service by Express Car Rental.  Tom has the option to buy several lots of vehicles from another rental agency that is downsizing.  He wants to get a better idea of the number of rentals nationwide by vehicle type.  The corporate accountant has forwarded Tom a worksheet containing rental data for last year. Tom wants to use this summarized data but feels that embedding charts will provide a quicker analysis and more visual manner to the Chief Financial Officer at their meeting next week.

Instructions: 
For the purpose of grading the project you are required to perform the following tasks: 
Step    Instructions    Points Possible
1    Start Excel. Open the downloaded spreadsheet named e02ws04_grader_h1_start.xlsx. Save the file with the name e02ws04_grader_h1_LastFirst.xlsx, replacing LastFirst with your name.    0
2    Use the data on the AnnualData worksheet, and create a 3-D Pie chart of the number of total annual rentals  for the six car types.    12
3    Reposition the chart so that the upper left corner is covering cell A12.    4
4    On the 3-D pie chart, change the title to Annual Rentals. Change the font of the title to Arial Black, 16 pt, and bold.    8
5    Adjust the data labels on the pie chart to include the category name and percentage only. Position the label information on the outside end of the chart. Change the font size of the labels to 8 and apply bold. Delete the legend.    8
6    On the pie chart, explode the slice of the chart that represents the auto type with the lowest percentage of annual rentals.    8
7    Select the clustered column chart located below the monthly data. Increase the data used in the clustered column chart to include the months of July, August, and September.    10
8    Change the clustered column chart type to Line with Markers. Switch the row and column data so that the months July to December are represented on the x-axis.    12
9    Change the chart style to Style 6. On the line chart, add primary major vertical gridlines. Change the chart title to Rentals by Auto Type for July to December.    10
10    Create a 3-D clustered column chart using the data for the Semi-Annual Totals for all auto types on the AnnualData worksheet. The primary horizontal axis should be the auto types.    12
11    Move the 3-D column chart from the AnnualData worksheet to a chart sheet and name that sheet SemiAnnualReport. Add/Edit the chart title Semi-Annual Total to the chart. Adjust the 3-D Rotation of the chart so that the X Rotation is 20, the Y Rotation is 15, and the Perspective is 15.    12
12    Reposition the SemiAnnualReport worksheet after the AnnualData worksheet. Save the workbook.    4
13    Ensure that the worksheets are correctly named and placed in the following order in the workbook: AnnualData, SemiAnnualReport, and Documentation.  Close the workbook and then exit Excel. Submit the workbook as directed.    0
    Total Points    100