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If you do need basic help getting started, contact me as soon as possible. For specifics of making tables and graphs you may want to refer to the excellent tutorials Varkki George has written for his DURP classes.
I have put together the following screen-grabs to show you how to step
through using the EXCEL Internet Assistant, which can make attractive WWW
pages from the spreadsheet you create. These are taken from the version
of EXCEL in MSOffice for Win-95 -- the look and feel is mostly the same
for later and Mac versions. Look for "Save as HTML" on the File menu if
you are using a newer version of EXCEL. If you are using an older one,
look for the Internet Assistant Wizard on
the bottom of the "Tools" pull-down menu (see the second screen below).
If the computer you are using does not have the Internet Assistant installed
you can get a copy from the Microsoft WWW site as a free download which
installs itself on Macs or Windows-95 machines. Follow
this link.
Screen 2 -- find and select the Internet Assistant Wizard (IAW) on
the Tools pull-down
Screen 3 -- the IAW-Step 1 window appears. It asks for the range of
cells you want to export. If you already selected the ones you need as
in Screen 1 the values will be automatically entered in the dialog box.
If not, follow the example here, noting that A1 and D8 in this example
are the corner cells at top left and bottom right of the table.
Screen 4 -- IAW-Step 2. You have two options - make a stand-alone
table or insert one in an existing html file. My advice, my strong advice,
is to check the first as I have and then cut and paste from the eventually
resulting file to your own. I like to have the control in my hands, not
the machine's!
Screen 5 -- IAW-Step 3. Hard to explain verbally but either experiment
yourself or check out the settings I have used and compare with the output
table below in this document. I only suggest you do not leave the defaults
set but you may want to leave out some of the possible fields such as name
and date of creation.
Screen 6 -- IAW-Step 4. Select the top button - "Convert as much of
the formatting as possible".
Screen 7 -- IAW-Step 5. At the end of the string in the box there
will be a default filename for the HTML file IA will create. You may want
to change it, as I have done here, to something more useful and memorable.
Simple costs of a raised planter
Last Update: 9/22/97 Name: brian orland Email: b-orland@uiuc.edu
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This case focusses on a real tree lot in East St. Louis:
| Costs of a tree farm: | |||
| unit costs | # of units | cost items | |
| Start-up costs | |||
| materials | |||
| trees | $2.50 | 250.00 | $625.00 |
| peat | $13.00 | 5.00 | $65.00 |
| mulch | $40.00 | 1.00 | $40.00 |
| equipment | |||
| delivery | $20.00 | 1.00 | $20.00 |
| auger | $75.00 | 1.00 | $75.00 |
| labor | |||
| hole digging | $7.50 | 36.00 | $270.00 |
| planting | $7.50 | 48.00 | $360.00 |
| Annual maintenance, for 5yrs. | |||
| materials | |||
| mulch | $40.00 | 5.00 | $200.00 |
| fertilizer | $20.00 | 5.00 | $100.00 |
| equipment | |||
| mowing | $50.00 | 30.00 | $1,500.00 |
| labor | |||
| weeding etc. | $60.00 | 30.00 | $1,800.00 |
| security | $20.00 | 250.00 | $5,000.00 |
| Total costs | $10,055.00 |
This table was created in EXCEL, then the area shown was selected, copied
and then pasted into an open window in Photoshop and saved as a *.gif file,
then inserted into this document in Netscape's editor. It lacks the elegance
of the other method but is easier.
Please publish your page for this project to both the new account that has been opened for you on the imlab server and to one of your group's own CCSO accounts and publish both URLs on the WebBoard Discussion Page by 9:00am next Wednesday.
