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Old April 17th 05, 05:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.programming
pat07734
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Default how do i use excel to check my lottery numbers

I was just trying to use an excel sreadsheet to sort my lottery numbers,
highlight matches and see if I have won anything.
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Old April 17th 05, 05:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.programming
Tom Ogilvy
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Default how do i use excel to check my lottery numbers

Should be possible. Look at the countif worksheet function.

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> I was just trying to use an excel sreadsheet to sort my lottery numbers,
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Old April 17th 05, 06:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.programming
Don Guillett[_4_]
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Default how do i use excel to check my lottery numbers

sort
[a4:e4].Sort Key1:=[a4], Orientation:=xlLeftToRight
hightlight matches with conditional formating
=sumproduct(($b$5:$f$5-e10(=)*1)
to count em up
=IF(G6=0,"",SUMPRODUCT(COUNTIF(B6:F6,$B$5:$F$5)))
conditional formatting to turn red if >2

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"pat07734" > wrote in message
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> I was just trying to use an excel sreadsheet to sort my lottery numbers,
> highlight matches and see if I have won anything.



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Old April 17th 05, 07:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.programming
Debra Dalgleish
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Default how do i use excel to check my lottery numbers

You can use conditional formatting to highlight the numbers, as shown he

http://www.contextures.com/xlCondFormat03.html#Lottery

pat07734 wrote:
> I was just trying to use an excel sreadsheet to sort my lottery numbers,
> highlight matches and see if I have won anything.



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