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- From: WHITESR@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (*Steve White )
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Excel counting letter grades???
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 23:08:03 GMT
- Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
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- In-Reply-To: fairchil@helix.ucsd.edu's message of 16 Nov 92 02:27:13 GMT
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- In <41030@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> fairchil@helix.ucsd.edu writes:
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- >
- > What am I missing? I'm using Excel 4.0 to keep track of my students' grades.
- > I have a column of letter grades. What I want to do is create a simple
- > distribution; that is, tell me how many A's, how many B's, etc. I have found
- > two complicated ways to do this: 1) use the Crosstab plug-in (complicated,
- > confusing, and slooooooow), or 2) use DCOUNT on a database *but* you can only
- > do that for one grade at a time. I can't believe that there isn't a simple
- > function like HOWMANY(range,what_to_look_for). What am I missing?
- >
- > Kevin Fairchild
-
- A year or so ago I did a macro sheet called "FREQ_ETC" for Excel 3.0.
- These shareware macros might handle your needs. Here is part of the
- intro to it:
- ___
- * * * The * * * macro sheet will create a table
- containing frequencies, rankings, and a rough estimate of
- percentiles for each discrete value. After the program creates
- the table, it gives the user a menu in which portions of the
- table can be selected or in which the user can command the
- program to create to create a column chart or a pie chart. Read
- the documentation, which can be viewed by selecting FREQ_ETC
- docs. under the Data menu.
- ___
- I'll be glad to email the sheet bacause it is no longer available
- at SUMEX(?)
-
- Steve
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- << The above are nothing more than my personal opinions >>
- stephen r. white -- whitesr@appstate.bitnet -- whitesr@conrad.appstate.edu
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