Level 2 - Analyzing Manager Performance at Home Station

You are a regional manager for Home Station, a national chain of home renovation stores. You are analyzing the weekly sales data for one of the retail stores located in Austin, Texas. The sales data is reported by department and manager. The Austin store manager wants to rotate the department managers in each of the store's departments so each manager becomes more familiar with the entire store's operations. You have been assigned the task of determining the impact of rotating the managers on store sales. You will import the sales data from a database into Excel and then create a PivotTable report to summarize the quarterly sales by department and by manager.

Complete the following:

1. Create a new Excel workbook and save it as Home Station-Austin.xlsx in the Chapter 7 folder.

2. Import the information from the Sales table in the Sales.accdb database in the Chapter 7 folder into a worksheet named Sales.

3. Create a Pivot Table report using the data in the Sales worksheet and place the Pivot Table report in a new worksheet named Austin.

4. Use the PivotTable report to analyze the sales by department. Change the number format of the sales data to currency and sort the sales so that the department with the highest sales appears first. Print the worksheet.