PROJECT STEPS

$1.$ Hwan Sung is a financial analyst at W&K Engineering in Bismarck, North Dakota. He is using an Excel workbook to analyze the financial data for engineering projects, recent revenue, and funding for additional construction equipment. He asks for your help in analyzing data, making financial calculations, and correcting errors.

Go to the Projects worksheet and then unprotect it so you can edit the contents.

$2.$ The engineering projects table should show projects from multiple states. Clear the filter in the State field.

$3.$ Instead of seeing the data sorted by Estimate amount, Hwan wants to see the projects by date. Sort the table by the Project Start field from oldest to newest.

$4.$ Hwan created a macro named CopyStats to copy the project statistics in the range I$3$:L$22,$ and then paste them on a new worksheet. When he runs the CopyStats macro, however, it includes extra data from column G$.$ View and edit the macro as follows:

a$.$ Open the CopyStats macro in the Visual Basic Editor. The macro should select and copy the range I$3$:L$22.$

b$.$ In the CopyStats macro VBA code, change the range specified in the first line of code after the comments $($Range$("$G$3$:L$22").$Select$)$ to use I$3$:L$22$ as the range.

c$.$ Save and close the CopyStats macro.

d$.$ Run the CopyStats macro.

e$.$ Use Project Stats as the name of the new worksheet the macro created.

$5.$ Return to the Projects worksheet. Hwan also created a macro named AddRow that inserts a new blank row in the Projects table in the range A$4$:G$37.$ He wants to assign the AddRow macro to a new button to make it easy to run the macro and add a new project. Create the button as follows:

a$.$ Insert a Button $($Form Control$)$ button in cell I$1$ to the left of the Print Stats button.

b$.$ Assign the AddRow macro to the new button.

c$.$ Change the height of the new button to $0\mathrm{.}3"$ and the width to $1".$

d$.$ Align the new button to the left side of cell I$1,$ and then align its top and bottom with the top and bottom of the Print Stats button.

e$.$ Edit the text to display Add Project on the new button.

$6.$ In the Projects table, Hwan wants to make sure that everyone entering project information enters the correct project categories, which are listed in the range I$4$:I$7.$ He asks you to ensure users enter a value from this range. Create a data validation rule as follows:

a$.$ In the range C$4$:C$37,$ create a data validation rule that accepts only List values from the range I$4$:I$7.$

b$.$ Create an input message that uses Project Category as the title and the following text as the input message:

Enter a project category.

c$.$ Create a Stop style error alert that uses Invalid Category as the title and the following text as the error message:

Enter a category listed in column I.

$7.$ Hwan wants to make sure all of the categories entered in the Category column of the Projects table are valid. Identify and correct any invalid values as follows:

a$.$ In the range C$4$:C$37,$ circle invalid data.

b$.$ Change the invalid entry to Site development to correct the error.

$8.$ In the range I$3$:L$7,$ Hwan wants to summarize project information. Calculate the number of projects, the total estimates, and the average estimate in each category as follows:

a$.$ In cell J$4,$ enter a formula using the COUNTIF function that counts the number of projects in the Bridge category, checking that the column of categories in the Projects table $($Projects$[$Category$])$ is equal to the value in cell I$4.$

b$.$ Fill the range J$5$:J$7$ with the formula in cell J$4,$ filling without formatting.

c$.$ In cell K$4,$ enter a formula using the SUMIF function that totals the estimates for projects in the Bridge category, checking that the column of categories in the Projects table $($Projects$[$Category$])$ is equal to the value in cell I$4,$ and that the formula totals the values in the Estimate column $($Projects$[$Estimate$]).$

d$.$ Fill the range K$5$:K$7$ with the formula in cell K$4,$ filling without formatting.

e$.$ In cell L$4,$ enter a formula using the AVERAGEIF function that averages the estimates of projects in the Bridge category, checking that the column of categories in the Projects table $($Projects$[$Category$])$ is equal to the value in cell I$4,$ and that the formula averages the values in the Estimate column $($Projects$[$Estimate$]).$

f$.$ Fill the range L$5$:L$7$ with the formula in cell L$4,$ filling without formatting.

$9.$ Go to the Projects by State worksheet. Hwan has created a PivotTable on this worksheet to list projects by state, start date, and category. Refresh the PivotTable so it displays the changes you made to the Category data on the Projects worksheet.

$10.$ Reduce the clutter in the PivotTable by modifying it as follows:

a$.$ Change the report layout to show the PivotTable in Outline Form.

b$.$ Group the Project Start values by Months.