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- L18
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- ║ THE WORKSHEET ║
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- √√√ THE WORK AREA
- The working area of the worksheet that you can see at
- one time has eight columns.
- Each column has been set at 9 spaces wide.
- You can change the width from one space to 256 spaces.
- This makes possible customizing a worksheet to your needs.
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- The easiest way to understand 1-2-3 and what is does is by
- preparing a small worksheet for weekly expenses.
- This will show how items are each put into a
- cell (location) so that they can be identified when
- you need them for calculations.
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- √√√ BEFORE YOU BEGIN
- To improve the looks of your worksheet make use of centering.
- You can center the item you put into a cell by preceding
- it with the Caret symbol (^).
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- √√√ TO CENTER THE CONTENTS OF A CELL
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- ▀ Precede each entry with the
- Caret symbol (^) located on key 6.
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- ▀ For example ^Food, ^Gas, ^Toll, etc.
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- Next page shows how items are entered and used.
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- The total for the column of figures will appear in cell C9, marked
- Sub-Total.
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- C9:
- @SUM(C1..C7) WEEKLY■EXPENSES
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- A B C D E F
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- 1║ FOOD 56.67
- 2║ GAS 21.48
- 3║ TOLL 4.85
- 4║ PARKING 8.10
- 5║ LAUNDRY 11.50
- 6║ MAPS 1.25
- 7║ MOVIE 7.50
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- 9║ SUB-TOTAL 111.35 @SUM(C1..C7 (Type in Cell C9).
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- ▀ Food is in the first row and the first column (A1).
- ▀ Gas is in the second row, and is still in column A. It is
- designated as being in A2.
- ▀ Toll is in cell A3
- ▀ Parking is in cell A4
- ▀ Laundry is in cell A5
- ▀ Maps is in cell A6
- ▀ Movie is in cell A7
- ▀ All expense costs are in column C
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- √√√ HOW THE ITEMS ARE ADDED
- Lotus has a very easy way to add all the expenses.
- ▀ Lotus uses the at (@) sign and the word "SUM"to add columns.
- ▀ The columns to be added are enclosed in brackets. The whole
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- @SUM(C1..C7)
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- √√√ WHERE TO PUT THE FORMULA
- Looking at the spreadsheet below you will notice that the cell
- containing Total is C9. Since we want the Total in C9 you must
- have the cursor (Highlight cell, also called Reverse video)
- in cell C9.
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- With this done you can type the formula:
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- @SUM(C1..C7)
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- which will appear at the top of the spreadsheet. The formula says
- to add all the cells from C1 to C7. Since you have highlighted cell
- C9 the results will appear in cell C9.
- When formula is complete press the Enter key or the right or down
- arrow to execute the command.
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- √√√ WEEKLY EXPENSE WITH SALES TAX
- Adding sales tax makes use of the Asterisk (*) which is the symbol
- used for multiplication. The X sign is not used to signify to multiply.
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- FORMULA FOR CALCULATING THE TAX
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- +C9*.06
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- Since we are not adding columns we don't need the brackets.
- Notice that the sum of C9 is multiplied (*) the tax (.06) which is
- The same as 111.25 X .06.
- Before you do any mathematics it is a good idea to place the cursor
- in the cell that will contain the answer. In this case you should
- have the cursor in cell C10.
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- √√√ CALCULATING AND ADDING THE SALES TAX
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- C10
- +C9*.06 WEEKLY EXPENSES
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- A B C D E F
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- 1║ FOOD 56.67
- 2║ GAS 21.48
- 3║ TOLL 4.85
- 4║ PARKING 8.10
- 5║ LAUNDRY 11.50
- 6║ MAPS 1.25
- 7║ MOVIE 7.50
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- 9║ SUB-TOTAL 111.35
- 10║ Tax 6% 6.681 (Type +C9*.06 in cell C10}
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- 12║ TOTAL ......
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- √√√ ADDING SALES TAX TO SUB-TOTAL
- The last step is to add the sales tax to the Sub-Total.
- To do this you must highlight cell C12.
- (Use GoTo F5 key)
- With this done you must now add C9 + C10
- to get the total.
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- FORMULA FOR ADDING TAX TO TOTAL
- HIghlight Cell C12, then Type:
- +C9+C10.
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- WEEKLY EXPENSES
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- A B C D E F
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- 1║ FOOD 56.67
- 2║ GAS 21.48
- 3║ TOLL 4.85
- 4║ PARKING 8.10
- 5║ LAUNDRY 11.50
- 6║ MAPS 1.25
- 7║ MOVIE 7.50
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- 9║ SUB-TOTAL 111.35
- 10║ Tax 6% 6.81
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- 12║ TOTAL 118.031 ( Type +C9+C10 in Cell 12).
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- √√√ FORMULAS USED IN SPREADSHEET
- Rows 9, 10 and 12 show the formulas used.
- Note that they are the Cells that are highlighted
- when writing the formulas.
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- Move Cursor to Cell C12, then type:
- +C9+C10 WEEKLY■EXPENSES
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- A B C D E F
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- 1║ FOOD 56.67
- 2║ GAS 21.48
- 3║ TOLLS 4.85
- 4║ PARKING 8.10
- 5║ LAUNDRY 11.50
- 6║ MAPS 1.25
- 7║ MOVIE 7.50
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- 9║ SUB-TOTAL 111.35 @SUM(C1..C7)
- 10║ Tax 6% 6.81 +C9*.06
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- 12║ TOTAL 118.031 +C9+C10
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- *** END OF CHAPTER ***
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