EXERCISE 4

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

1. PROBLEM STATEMENT
A real estate agency called SmartHouse is specialized in selling and renting properties across
the country. For a more efficient management, the agency decided to computerize its real
estate transactions. It starts by conceiving a file capturing property and customer details.
Property details include commodity data such as swimming pool, and financial ones such as
the price and the insurance that represent the input for the mortgage calculation as shown
in the below table. Note a property is identified by a number from 112 to 117, and both the
house price and insurance rate are depending on the house type.

2. REQUIREMENTS
The details of properties 112, …, 117 required by the real estate agency are depicted by the
below table. Thus, you should develop an Excel worksheet that organize, calculate and store
the property details in form and content exactly as shown by the table. Note the facts
shown in the table represent the input whereas the locations indicated by a mark question
represent information resulting from appropriate calculations using formulas and
functions.

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3. MAIN OBJECTIVES (NOTE ADDED ACTIVITIES ARE HIGHLIGHTED)
The present assignment allows students learning and understanding the different items and
topics using Excel, including:
 Absolute Cell Referencing
 Working with the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP Function
 Working multiple worksheets,
 Working with Zoom in Zoom out, Freeze, unfreeze, hide, unhide, copy and rename
of a worksheet.

4. ACTIVITIES
 Rename the worksheet to “SmartVille1”.
 Zoom in and out the work sheet to 200% and then to 75% respectively.
 Color the new name tab in green color.
 Name the cell range A13:B17 as Price.
 Find Swimming Pool, if the house type is 1 then print “yes” otherwise leave it blank.
 Using VLOOKUP, find Price base on Type.
 Using HLOOKUP, find the Insurance rate for each type.
 Find Insurance: Insurance = Price * Insurance Rate.
 Find Total Mortgage: Total Mortgage = Price + Insurance.
 Freeze family name column and scroll the worksheet to the right.
 Freeze row one of the table (the header row of the table) and scroll downward?
 Copy Smartville1 worksheet and rename the new worksheet SmartVille2. Color its
name tab blue.
 Change the insurance rates of the new smartVille2 worksheet to 7.5%, 5%, and 2.5%
and see how the last three columns changed automatically.
 Display SmarteVille1 and SmartVille2 at on the same window.
 Hide SmartVille2 worksheet , and then Hide smartVille1worksheet.
 Unhide SmartVille1 sheet and delete SmartVille2 sheet.

5. NEED HELP?
Read Excel tutorials:

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2010/

Solution Next

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Solution (Check Excel Solution)
Smart Ville Compound

House Total
Family Swimming Insuranc Insuranc

Type
Numbe Price Mortgag
Name Pool e Rate e
r e
112 Silverson 1 yes 120000 0.05 6000 126000
113 Hulkenburg 3 60000 0.035 2100 62100
Montgomer
114 y 1 yes 120000 0.05 6000 126000
115 Richardson 2 100000 0.02 2000 102000
116 Williams 3 60000 0.035 2100 62100
117 davidson 1 yes 120000 0.05 6000 126000

House Price Insurance Rates

Type Price Type 1 2 3
3 60000 Rate 5% 2% 3.50%
2 100000
1 120000

1) Add a background color to a sheet tab

To change the color of a sheet tab, right-click the tab, point to Tab
Color and pick a color that you want.

Tip: Click away from the formatted tab to see the new tab color.

If you want to remove the color, right-click the tab, point to Tab Color, and
pick No Color.

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2) Zoom in and zoom out of the worksheet.
 You can use the Zoom control at the bottom-right of the Excel window, at the very
right-hand side of the status bar. Just drag the control to the left or to the right and
Excel adjusts the size of what you see on the screen.
 You can also see a selection of different zooming options by displaying the Zoom
dialog box. There are two ways you can display the dialog box:
o Display the View tab of the ribbon and click the Zoom tool in the Zoom
group.
o Click the Zoom Level percentage shown just to the left of the Zoom control
at the bottom-right of the Excel window. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Zoom dialog box.

3) Freeze/Unfreeze columns or rows in a worksheet (See Fig.

2)

If you are working on a large spreadsheet, it can be useful to “freeze” certain

rows or columns so that they stay on screen while you scroll through the rest
of the sheet.
As you’re scrolling through large sheets in Excel, you might want to keep
some rows or columns—like headers, for example—in view. Excel lets you
freeze things in one of three ways:

A) Freeze the top Row

A) You can freeze the leftmost column.

B) You can freeze a pane that contains multiple rows or multiple columns—
or even freeze a group of columns and a group of rows at the same time.

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C) The top row in our example sheet is a header that might be nice to keep in view
as you scroll down. Switch to the “View” tab, click the “Freeze Panes” dropdown
menu, and then click “Freeze Top Row.”
D) Now, when you scroll down the sheet, that top row stays in view.

E) To reverse that, you just have to unfreeze the panes. On the “View”
tab, hit the “Freeze Panes” dropdown again, and this time select
“Unfreeze Panes.”

B) Freeze the Left Row

Sometimes, the leftmost column contains the information you’ll want to keep
on screen as you scroll to the right on your sheet. To do that, switch to the
“View” tab, click the “Freeze Panes” dropdown menu, and then click “Freeze
First Column.”

Figure 2

C) To freeze rows:
You may want to see certain rows or columns all the time in your
worksheet, especially header cells. By freezing rows or columns in
place, you'll be able to scroll through your content while continuing
to view the frozen cells.
1. Select the row below the row(s) you want to freeze. Suppose
we want to freeze rows 1 and 2, so we'll select row 3.
2. On the View tab, select the Freeze Panes command, then
choose Freeze Panes from the drop-down menu.

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 3. The rows will be frozen in place, and indicated by the gray line. You
can scroll down the worksheet while continuing to view the frozen rows at the
top.

D) To freeze columns:
Select the column to the right of the column(s) you want
to freeze. If we want to freeze column A, so we'll select
column B. Then follow steps 2 and 3.

4) Hide a worksheet
1. Select the worksheets that you want to hide.
To select Do this
A single Click the sheet tab.
sheet

If you don't see the tab that you want, click the tab scrolling buttons to display
the tab, and then click the tab.

Two or more Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down SHIFT while you click the tab
adjacent for the last sheet that you want to select.
sheets

Two or Click the tab for the first sheet. Then hold down CTRL while you click the tabs
more of the other sheets that you want to select.
nonadjacent
sheets
All sheets in Right-click a sheet tab, and then click Select All Sheets on the shortcut menu.
a workbook

Or do the following (See figure 3)

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Figure 3

5) To delete (Rename, Copy) a worksheet:

Right-click the worksheet you want to Rename /delete, then
select Rename/Delete from the worksheet menu.

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6) To open a new window for the current workbook:

Excel allows you to open multiple windows for a single

workbook at the same time. In our example, we'll use this feature
to compare two different worksheets from the same workbook.

1. Click the View tab on the Ribbon, then select

the New Window command.

2. A new window for the workbook will appear.

3. You can now compare different worksheets from the same
workbook across windows.
4. If you have several windows open at the same time, you can
use the Arrange All command to rearrange them quickly.