Checkerboard

> Highlight Columns A to J, by clicking on the A and dragging across to J. You’ll know that the column is highlighted because the letter on the column is now a dark blue.
 * 1) 1. Open Microsoft Excel.
 * 1) 2. Right Click on the letter A. Choose Column Width. Change the Column Width to 14.
 * 2) 3. Highlight Rows 1 to 10, by clicking on the 1 and dragging down to the 10. You’ll know that the row is highlighted because the number on the row is now a dark blue.
 * 3) 4. Right Click on the number 1. Choose Row Height. Change the Row Height to 64.50.
 * 4) 5. Click in cell A1. Under the Home tab, click on the [[image:fill1.JPG]] Fill button. Choose a light color of your choice.
 * 5) 6. Click on cell B1. Under the Home tab, click on the [[image:fill1.JPG]]Fill button. Choose a dark color of your choice.
 * 6) 7. Turn your cells C1, E1, G1, and I1 to the light color.
 * 7) 8. Turn your cells D1, F1, H1, and J1 to the dark color.
 * 8) 9. Turn your cells A2, C2, E2, G2, and I2 to the dark color.
 * 9) 10. Turn your cells B2, D2, F2, H2, and J2 to the light color.
 * 10) 11. Highlight cells A1 to J2. Right click in the highlighted area. Click Copy.
 * 11) 12. Click in cell A3. Right click and choose Paste.
 * 12) 13. Highlight cells A1 to J2. On the Home tab, click on the [[image:painter.JPG]] Format Painter button.
 * 13) 14. Click once in cell A5.
 * 14) 15. Finish completing your checkerboard so that it looks like:
 * 15) 16. [[image:checkerboard.JPG]]
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">17. Now highlight from cell A1 to J10. Right click in the highlighted area and choose Format Cells.
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">18. Under the Border tab, add an inside and outside border to your checkerboard. Click OK.
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">19. Click on the Insert tab and click on the Wordart button.
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">20. Insert your name on your board.
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">21. Click on the Office Button, choose Save As. Go to thawspace and create a new folder named Excel.
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">22. Save your document in our Excel folder as yournameCheckers.
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">23. Click on the Office Button, go to Print Preview and then click on Page Setup.
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">24. Under the Page tab, make sure your orientation is changed to landscape and make your scaling fit 1 page wide by 1 page tall.
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">25. Under the Margins tab, make your page vertically and horizontally centered.
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">26. Save and turn in to School Web Lockers.