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Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education Inc. publishing as Prentice Hall. All rights reserved.From Skills for Success with Microsoft® Excel 2010 Comprehensive

Work with Advanced Functions and Formulas | Microsoft Excel Chapter 6 More Skills: SKILL 14 | Page 1 of 6

� You can use web queries to insert data from web pages into your Excel worksheet and thenmanipulate it.

� When you use an external link to update data, you can configure the link so that the dataupdates automatically or manually, allowing you to keep the data in your workbook as current as needed.

To complete this document, you will need the following file:� e06_Stocks

You will save your document as:� Lastname_Firstname_e06_Stocks

1. Start Excel, and then open the student data file e06_Stocks. Save the file in your ExcelChapter 6 folder with the name Lastname_Firstname_e06_Stocks Add the file name inboth worksheets’ left footers. Select cell A1, and then return to Normal view.

2. Display the Web Query worksheet, and then select cell A1.

3. Display the Data tab, and in the Get External Data group, click Existing Connections.

4. In the Existing Connections dialog box, verify that the Show box displays All Connections,and then click MSN MoneyCentral Investor Stock Quotes. Compare your screen withFigure 1, and then click Open.

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Figure 1

More Skills 14 Use External Data Links to Update Data



5. In the Import Data dialog box, verify that the Existing worksheet option button is selectedand that the Existing worksheet box displays the text =$A$1. Compare your screen withFigure 2, and then click OK.

Figure 2

Existing worksheetoption button

Location setto $A$1

6. In the displayed Enter Parameter Value dialog box, type CCL, HD, JCP, BBY, MAT, GOOG,MSFT

You are adding stock symbols telling the application which stocks to look for whenMSN MoneyCentral Investor is queried.

7. Select the Use this value/reference for future refreshes check box. Compare your screenwith Figure 3.

The Use this value/reference for future refreshes check box is selected to store the values that have been entered so that they do not have to be typed the next time thesame query is run.



Figure 3

Check box selected

8. Click OK. Wait a moment, and then compare your screen with Figure 4. The values thatdisplay on your screen will likely be different than the ones displayed in the images becausethe stock market is dynamic and the values change often. If you are not connected to theInternet, you cannot complete the rest of this skill.

The stock quotes from MSN Money are inserted into the worksheet.



Figure 4

Current stock data

9. Copy the range D4:D10, and then display the Current Value worksheet.

10. Select cell D5. On the Home tab, in the Clipboard group, click the Paste button arrow, andthen under Other Paste Options, click Paste Link . Compare your screen with Figure 5.



Figure 5

Values pastedas links

11. Select cell E5, type =C5*D5 and then press J. Use the fill handle to copy the formula incell E5 down through cell E11.

12. Click cell E12, and in the Editing group, click AutoSum , and then press J. Compareyour screen with Figure 6.



13. Use the Format Painter to copy the format in cell D11 to cell E11. Format the range D6:E11with the Comma cell style.

14. Save and then Close the workbook.

15. Exit Excel. Submit your work as directed by your instructor.

� You have completed More Skills 14

Figure 6

Totalcurrent value

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