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- From: Khalid Aldoseri <75166.2531@CompuServe.COM>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: final calc help
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 18:37:49 GMT
- Organization: Softwood
- Message-ID: <4ch6pt$a4h$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com>
-
- Chris Baker (yogi@crl.com) wrote:
-
- > I am making a spreed sheet and I am having problems making it. :(
-
- > I am trying to keep track of my stocks and I would like to have the
- > bottom line stuff sepeate from the rest. My probelm is the fact they
- > chage daily and I would like to have a forumla. What I want to do is I
- > want to enter the date, how much the stock changed, the gain/loss, the
- > closing price, gain/loss %.
-
- > I have that in a differnt part of the sheet. IN my bottom section, I
- > would like to have all the formulas so as I enter the data it changes and
- > reflects the change, Ok, I can put a formula in this one cell and say '=e17'
- > it will read that cell, but I would like it to change as I enter the data in,
- > I would like it to be like '=e17:e60' and have that change box in my
- > bottom reflect the change on a day to day basis.
-
- Chris,
-
- I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for here. The formula =e17:e60
- will always return E17, as it sees the range as a single cell. If you want
- the sum of that range, use =sum(e17:e60). If you want to get the last cell
- in that range, use =last(e17:e60). Using the last() function will give you
- the last entered cell in a range. This might be what you're looking for.
-
- I assume you're looking for a simple stock-tracking sheet, where you
- enter the date and the closing price for that date.
-
- This is what it would look like:
-
-
- Date Price Change Change %
- ------ ------- ------ -------------
- <enter> <enter> =price-previousprice =change/price
-
-
- Start by entering the titles in row 4 for example, and then two
- date/price entries in rows 5 and 6.
-
- Set cell A5 to Format-Type-Date 1. (or any date format)
-
- Now, in cell C6 enter: =b6-b5 and in cell D6 enter =c6/b6
-
- Set cell B6 to Format-Type-Percent.
-
- Highlight the range C6:D6 and Copy. Then highlight the range from
- C6..C100 and Paste. This should replicate the formulas in the
- 100 rows.
-
- Now, in cell A1 enter: =LAST(A5:A100) This will pick the last entered
- cell in that row. Copy Cell A1 and paste it back to A2:A4. Now row 1
- will contain the last entered data... nice and simple. :-)
-
- I hope this is what you were looking for.
-
- Khalid.
- --
- Khalid Aldoseri - Softwood
- 71277.2776@compuserve.com
-