CS&E 1113
ASSIGNMENT 1
PART 1 – MYITLAB
The MyITLab software is bundled with your books. The e -text resides on this site and optional training
videos that teach you Excel Basics are also available . Remember, the purpose of this class is to teach
you problem solving using Excel. It is not a basic MS office class. The videos and part of each pre lab will
teach you the basics, but we will not use class time to cover the basics.
Note: Everyone who purchases the book has access to this website and the accompanying e -text.
Get Registered!
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Enter www.pearsonmylabs.com into your web browser.
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Click Students.
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Click Register.
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Verify you have a valid email address, a course ID provided to you by your instructor, and an access code to register
or credit card to purchase access.
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NOTE: If you are waiting for financial aid or the funds to purchase the material, you will be able to get
temporary access without payment for 14 days.
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Click the Ok! Register Now button
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Click MS Office 2013
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Enter your instructor’s Course ID and click Continue. (Your lecturer will provide you with your Course ID.)
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Select to Sign in with your existing Pearson account or, if you do not already have a Pearson account, you may
Create a Pearson Account
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If you choose to create an account, fill out the fields on the Create an Account screen. Read the License Agreement
and Privacy Policy and click the “I accept the license agreement” box.
10. Select your purchasing option
11. Select Access Code if you have a Student Access Code.
12. If available, select an Online Purchasing option to use your credit card to gain access
13. When successful, you will see a Confirmation & Summary page with your account information. This information
will also be emailed to you – be sure to keep this email for future reference.
14. Click the Go to Your Course button to start using your course.
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PART 2 – CARMEN
Carmen is the learning management system used at Ohio State. All course materials are on Carmen
(except the books needed for the course). All beginning Assignment files must be downloaded from
Carmen or they will not be accepted, (unless otherwise noted) and all completed assignment files must
be uploaded to the Carmen drop box or they will not be accepted.
In this part of the assignment you will download an excel file from Carmen, make changes to the file,
and then upload it to the Carmen drop box. This will be the process you will follow for every
assignment you complete.
STEP 1: DOWNLOAD THE STARTING FILE.
Log in to Carmen. (Carmen.osu.edu) and then follow the steps below to download the file, Course
Information.xlsx.
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Save the file to the storage
medium of your choice.
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STEP 2: UPDATE THE DOWNLOADED FILE.
1. Open the file, Course Information.xlsx by double clicking on the icon.
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2. Starting in cell B1, fill out the requested information.
3. Close and save the file.
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****SPECIAL NOTE***
**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY**
ALWAYS DOWNLOAD THE FILE FROM CARMEN AND SAVE IT.
DO NOT OPEN THE FILE DIRECTLY FROM CARMEN.
If you download the file directly from Carmen and your computer freezes, you will lose
your file; you will have to start over and may not complete the lab.
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STEP 3: UPLOAD THE FILE TO THE DROP BOX ONCARMEN.
MAKE SURE THE FILE IS CLOSED BEFORE YOU UPLOAD THE FILE TO THE DROP BOX.
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You will upload the
Course Information.xlsx
file to the Assignment 1 folder
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Click on Upload, locate and select the
Course Information.xlsx file you updated.
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Indicates file has been successfully
uploaded to the drop box.
You should also view the file that was
uploaded to make sure it is the correct one.
NOT UPLOADING THE CORRECT
FILE BY MISTAKE OR UPLOADING
THE WRONG FILE WILL RESULT IN
A 0 FOR THE LAB.
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MAKE SURE THE FILE IS THE CORRECT ONE.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE FILE WHEN YOU ARE VIEWING IT.
IF YOU NEED TO MAKE CHANGES, CLOSE THIS FILE, OPEN THE FILE LOCATED ON
YOUR STORAGE MEDIUM, MAKE THE CHANGES AND RE-UPLOAD THE FILE TO CARMEN.
THE MOST CURRENT FILE ON CARMEN WILL BE GRADED.
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SAVE THE EMAIL YOU RECEIVE FROM CARMEN AS A RECORD OF YOUR SUBMISSION.
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PART 3 – SIGNING ON TO THE CSE COMPUTERS
Complete this step using the computers in Caldwell Lab 112
Skip this step if you can already login using your CSE ID
All students must have a CSE login to access the computers in the CSE department.
 Your login information has already been emailed to you
 If you did not receive it, please look on the class list.
 Your account must be activated before the In Lab or before you work on any Assignments in the Lab. (If you
wish to.)
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Default passwords are based on the user's OSU ID number and initials. Examples given below are for a hypothetical
user named Luke Skywalker whose OSU ID number is 012345678.
o Last four digits of the user's OSU ID, followed by the user's first and last initial the character 'p' and the
character '!'. (e.g. 5678lsp!)
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Please change your default password this first time you log on.
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Users may change their Windows password by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL, clicking "Change Password..."
and following the prompts. Password complexity is enforced in the Windows environment; all Windows
passwords must be at least 8 characters long, may not contain the account name, and must contain at least
three of the following four types of characters:
o Lowercase letters (abc)
o Uppercase letters (ABC)
o Numbers (123)
o Special characters (!@#$)
Account Lock Out
If you incorrectly input your password 5 times, your account will be locked for 30 minutes.
Forgotten Passwords
Users who forget their password must visit the Help Desk in person with a photo ID to have their password reset. For
security reasons, we will not reset passwords over the phone or via e-mail.
PART 3 – FILE MANAGEMENT
Often students save files by just clicking File/Save and then are distressed when they cannot find this file later to re-open.
Without giving the computer any specific information, this file may or may not have been stored to the usual default
location set up on many systems; “Documents”. Then even if it’s under the Document’s folder, with so many other files it
may still be hard to find. To efficiently and effectively work in an environment containing many files and many system
directories, it is crucial to organize your files, so that they may be easily retrieved by you or others in the future. Windows
Explorer is the Windows 7 tool for managing files. This tool can be used to create hierarchical folders (also called
directories) and subfolders to organize both application and data files. In this exercise you will setup new
folders/subfolders, and move files into these new directories.
Navigate to z:\windows\username\documents from Computer
The CSE computer network is a large, complex system, spanning many computers, file servers, printers and other devices.
Each student has been given their own virtual drive (Z:) – a space on the network to store their work that only is accessible
to them. To simplify the complex path of your home directory, a link has been created. This link is found as follows:
Z:\windows\username\documents. Each student will need to substitute their username (login name to CSE system) for
username in this file path. To access this directory from Windows Explorer follow these steps:
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Launch Windows Explorer by clicking on the Start Button on the bottom left corner of the desktop. Select the Computer
button listed on the right side approximately halfway down the list as seen in Figure 17.
Link to Windows Explorer in the
Documents Folder:
Z:\windows\username\documents
Computer Link to
Windows Explorer
Start Button
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This will launch the Windows Explorer Computer screen as seen in Figure 18. An alternate technique to open Windows
Explorer to press the Windows button and the letter E at the same time.
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Double click on the Z drive icon from the network section on the window. You should find the Z drive icon as shown in
the bottom right of the content pane (see Figure 18). This will bring up a window containing the contents of the Z:\
drive as seen in Figure 19.
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Double click on the Windows folder in the folder contents pane to navigate to Windows folder.
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Next, double click on the folder with your username.
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Finally, double click on the folder labeled My Documents.
Address Bar with file path
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Navigation
Pane
Favorites
Libraries
Computer
Network
Drives
Contents Pane Lists all folders
and files in the selected folder
Search Window
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The process of navigating to directories and subdirectories is outlined in Figure 19.
There are also several other methods to navigate including:
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Typing the directory path directly into the address bar (top left of Explorer window)
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Using the Search box to search for a specific file (top right of Explorer window)
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Clicking on the Navigation pane (left side of Explorer window) to find the desired folder in the Favorites list, Libraries
list or Computer network directory list.
The default Documents folder can also be directly accessed by clicking on Documents from the Start menu (Right Side toward
the top)
Setting up folders and subfolders
Next you will setup several new folders/subfolders to store your lab files for this semester. First you will create a folder
named Assignments and create subfolders labeled Assignment 1, Assignment 2, Assignment 3, Assignment 4, Assignment 5,
Assignment 6 and In Lab in the Assignments folder.
 You should now be in the My Documents folder, with the list of already existing files visible in the contents pane. Note
that depending on how you navigate to this folder it may be refered to as ‘My Documents’ or ‘Documents’.
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Right click to bring up a shortcut menu and then select New and then select Folder. Many of the Folder commands can
be found on these menus and submenus. An alternate way to do this in Windows 7 is to click on the New folder button
located just below the menu bar.
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Type in the name of your new folder – Assignments.
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Next, select this new Labs Folder by double clicking on it in the Contents Pane. The Folder path in the address bar will be
updated to reflect this new location. Since no files have yet been added, the folder content will be empty.
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Use the same technique to create a new subfolder named CSE Environment within the selected Labs folder.
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Create new subfolders in the Labs folder for Assignment 1, Assignment 2, etc.
Creating a Favorites link
You may have noticed that going back and forth between folders can be tedious. Oftentimes there are folder locations that
are used over and over again in much that same way you would return to a favorite website. Windows 7 has a section
called Favorite Links, located in the upper left pane of the Explorer window Navigation pane, where you can create links to
folders you use often. To create a link to the CSE Environment folder in Favorites, complete the following steps:
 Navigate your Explorer window to the level just above the CSE Envornment folder – in this case the Assignments folder.
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In the Content Pane select the CSE Environment folder by clicking on it, and then drag it (holding down the left mouse
button) over to the top left section of the Explorer window’s Navigation pane - labeled Favorites (see arrow on Figure
19). Be sure to drag it above or below an existing link. If dragged to an exisiting link the computer will display “copy to..”
instead of “Create link in Favorites”.
YOUR CSE ENVIRONMENT HAS NOW BEEN CREATED!!!
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Download from Carmen: OKOS.xlsx, Loans.xlsx, Jobs.xlsx, Salary.xlsx, Rent or Buy.xlsx
Thrift Store Expansion.xlsx
ALL BEGINNING FILES MUST BE DOWNLOADED FROM Carmen OR THEY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
PART 4: EXCEL BASICS, FORMULAS, FUNCTIONS, AND CHARTS
Complete from the book, Spreadsheet Programming for Business CSE 1113:
Chapter 1 Introduction to Excel, Pages 1-59
Do not use the starting file indicated in the book, instead use the file, OKOS.xlsx you downloaded from Carmen. This will
be the name of your file, so do not rename it as the book instructs. This will be true for all of your lab assignments.
USE THIS FILE THE ENTIRE CHAPTER.
Read Pages 1-8
Do Pages 9-11
Read Pages 12-16
Do Pages 17-21
Read Pages 22-28
Do Pages 29-33
Read Pages 34-38
Do Pages 39-41
Read Pages 42-46
Do Pages 47-50
Read Pages 51-55
Do Pages 56-59
Chapter 2 Formulas and Functions, Pages 61-101
Do not use the starting file indicated in the book, instead use the file, Loans.xlsx you downloaded from Carmen. This will be
the name of your file, so do not rename it as the book instructs. This will be true for all of your assignments. USE
THIS FILE THE ENTIRE CHAPTER
Read: Pages 61-65
Read: Pages 70-79
Read: Pages 85-91***
Read: Pages 96-98
Do: Pages 66-69
Do: Pages 80-84
Do: Pages 92-95***
Do: Pages 99-101
**This chapter introduces the IF, LOOKUP, and PMT functions. You will not be required to know these functions until later
in the semester when they will be covered in detail.
Chapter 3 Charts, Pages 103-142
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Do not use the starting file indicated in the book, instead use the file, Jobs.xlsx you downloaded from Carmen. This will
be the name of your file, so do not rename as the book instructs. This will be true for all of your assignments. USE
THIS FILE THE ENTIRE CHAPTER.
Read: Pages 103-117
Do: Pages 118-122
Read: Pages 123-130
Do: Pages 131-134
Read: Pages 135-138
Do: Pages 139-141
Chapter 5 Specialized Functions, Pages 157-168
Do not use the starting file indicated in the book, instead use the file, Salary.xlsx you downloaded from Carmen.
This will be the name of your file, so do not rename it as the book instructs. This will be true for all of your
assignments.
Read: Pages 157-164
Do: Pages 165-168
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PART 5: COLLEGE TOWN THRIFT STORE
Complete from the book, Problem Solving Cases in Microsoft Access and Excel, Thrift Store Expansion Tutorial C, pages 87-109.
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This tutorial will walk you through creating a DSS model. As you read the material you will be asked to complete the
worksheet.
Use the starting file, Thrift Store Expansion.xlsx you downloaded from Carmen.
PART 6: TED AND ALICE’S HOUSE PURCHASE DECISION
Complete from the book, Problem Solving Cases in Microsoft Access and Excel, Ted and Alice’s House Purchase Decision
Tutorial C, pages 110-113.
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STOP before the section, “Interpreting the Results”. (Located at the bottom of page 113.)
Use the starting file, Rent or Buy.xlsx you downloaded from Carmen.
Note: cells C20 and C21 use unneeded absolute cell reference the cell reference in the formula should be $C12
Carmen Submissions
1. Course Information.xlsx
2. OKOS.xlsx
3. Loans.xlsx
4. Jobs.xlsx
5. Salary.xlsx
6. Thrift Store Expansion.xlsx
7. Rent or Buy.xlsx
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