Task #5

Creating and Modifying Charts in Excel
For your next assignment, you will be going through a Microsoft online tutorial using Excel. Students usually are able to make a basic chart using Excel-but we are going to learn more.
Go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/default.aspx

1. Select the Excel 2007 training course.
2. Go to task #2 “Creating Charts in Excel”
3. Watch the entire overview by clicking ‘next’ on the bottom right corner of each screen. You can use headphones to hear the audio of the tutorial.
4. Once you are finished with the Overview, you will get to a page that says “Practice” Click on ‘Practice in Excel’ This will open both an Excel workbook sheet and a help screen that will tell you exactly what to do.
5. You will need to take the quiz to get to the next part of the tutorial, next complete the quiz.
6. You will be taken through another set of directions and again, you will get to a screen, that says ‘Practice in Excel’ –click it.(Your excel practice sheet will open back up with the directions.
Once you get to the step that says “Exercise 8: Add your chart to a PowerPoint presentation”
7. Scroll down to the bottom of the directions and click “return to course” (you don’t have to do the powerpoint part)
8. At this point, you should save your excel document you created into you Tech folder as practice1.xlsx


If you would like, you could print off these directions.