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- From: A4422DAB@vm.univie.ac.at (Erich Neuwirth)
- Subject: Re: making check catagory acc
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- From: qqc@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Dm Forsyth)
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- Subject: Re: making check catagory acc
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 16:21:57 GMT
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- In article <31.97.uupcb@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us> ken.mason@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us (Ke
- >DF.I want to add additional columns (1 associated with each column of values)
- >DF.in which to enter the expense catagory (probably numbers between 1 and 15).
- >
- > I'm interested in your problem, but you lost me here. Can you
- > post an extract of how you want it to look, then what you want
- > to do with your data?
- >
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- Let me restate my question, hopefully more clearly:
- (forget for the moment that I do this in 4 columns instead of 1, just to
- fit onto one screen; if necessary, I can repeat the procedure 4 times for that)
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- I want to have 3 columns:
- 1 for a 0/1 value for checks not back from bank
- This is for "database extraction" for outstanding checks,
- and this works, no question here.
- 1 for the value of the check
- 1 for the catagory of the expense (values maybe 1 to 15)
- This is the part I have the question about. How to sum
- catagories.
-
- The data could look like this:
- IN CHECK CATAGORY
- 1 12.00 1
- 15.00 5
- 1 18.47 1 etc.
-
- It seems there should be some simple way of getting the sums by catagory.
-
- In this abbreviated example, the sum for catagory 1 should be 30.47
- sums for catagories 2-4 are 0
- sum for catagory 5 = 15
- etc.
-
- I've used @dsum(), in this way:
- Make a criterion table with the titles on one row
- Then on consecutive following rows, 1, 2, 3, .. 15.
-
- It looks something like this: CHECK CATAGORY
- 1
- 2
- 3 etc
-
- Then I have a column of @dsums-previous @dsum.
- In other words, it looks like
- @dsum(b20.c30,0,k20.L21)
- @dsum(b20.c30,0,k20.L22)-@dsum(b20.c30,0,k20.L21)
- @dsum(b20.c30,0,k20.L23)-@dsum(b20.c30,0,k20.L22)
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- THIS WORKS!!!!
- But, it takes an awfully lot of formulas and seems very messy to do something
- that must have been done many times.
-
- WHO HAS A BETTER WAY?
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- Dale M. Forsyth | Assoc. Prof. | Purdue University Animal Sciences
- qqc@mace.cc.purdue.edu | phone 49-44841 | campus address 2-111 Lilly
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- if you are useing excel 4.0 you can enter a formula like
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- =sum(if(b1:b10=3),c1:c10,0))
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- and enter this as an array formula
- (pressing shift-ctrl-return after entering it, ob macs it is
- apple-return, i think)
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- NO ADDITIONAL ROWS AND COLUMNS NEEDED!
- array formulas are an extremely useful tool only available in excel!
-