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Level 6: Practice

Create a Form Letter, part one

Challenge Exercise

  • Open the sample Excel list, Friends and Family.xls

  • When prompted, SAVE to My Documents

  • Go to My Documents

  • Double click on Friends and Family.xls to open the spreadsheet in Excel

Review the Data

 

A B C D
1 FirstName LastName Company JobTitle
2 Todd Borek Bell-Borek Home Director
3 Mary McCrickard Charity Social Services Manager
4 Bonnie Bondy Brighton Towne Co Sales Associate

 

Sort the Data

  • Select the entire spreadsheet by clicking on the gray square at the corner of the columns and rows

  • Go to Data -> Sort

  • Choose your topics from the drop down lists.

  • Note: if the first row in your spreadsheet has labels, this is the Header Row. That's what Excel uses for the drop down boxes. If you do not have a header, you will only see Column A, Column B, etc.

 

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