I think this is the best place to come for help in writing formulas. Also,
reading this group, and helping others write formulas is great practice and
exercise- and some would even think it's fun..

I think there is "Excel for Dummies" but unless you can get a computer
version which is easily searchable, you'll have more luck searching through
newsgroups or on the web.

Here are some sites which are commonly provided to people looking for Excel
help around he

http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html

http://www.cpearson.com/excel.htm

http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.SUMPRODUCT.html
(this one is about sumproduct, which has very many applications).


Glad to help.




"Crowraine" wrote in message
...
You were so right. I was testing it out last night and it wasn't coming
out
right. I was going to come back today and do another post asking more
questions. LOL You were way ahead of me. Thank you so much with the
consistent help. Is there a place I can go for help on writing formulas
other
than the help feature. Something like Excel for Dummies, (if that actually
exists)?

God Bless,
Harley

"Dave R." wrote:

I don't think that's working..

First, the COUNT function returns counts of numbers, e.g. if you had
66,342,3542 in A1:A3, COUNT(A1:A3) would return 3. The ",10-87400" part
isn't doing anything useful -- the formula is subtracting 87400 from 10
and
saying "yes, -87390 is a number" and returning a 1. If you tested the
formula by entering 10-87400 in InventorySold!B? only once, you would
think
it's working. If you had entered it more than once you would see that it
is
not.

Based on what it looks like you're trying to do, you can try this
formula;

=InventoryOrdered!E3-COUNTIF(InventorySold!B:B,"10-87400")




"Crowraine" wrote in message
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HOLY SMOKES I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!! NEW FORMULA IS
=SUM(InventoryOrdered!E3,-COUNT(InventorySold!B:B,10-87400))

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

"Crowraine" wrote:

New formula

=SUM(InventoryOrdered!E3,COUNT(InventorySold!B:B,1 0-87400))
Now how do I get it to subtract COUNT from Sum?

"Crowraine" wrote:

I do the COUNTIF but I want to subtract that from Sheet Inventory
Ordered and
put the results in Sheet Inventory In Stock

"Dave R." wrote:

The confusion on my part was that you said you wanted 10-6161 to
"be
represented by 4".

It sounds like you want to count all the 10-6161 in column B and
subtract
that number from the "inventory ordered" amount.

You can use a formula like

=COUNTIF(B:B,"10-6161") to count up the 10-6161s in B. You can
also
reference the cell that contains the part number like
=COUNTIF(B:B,$A1).

If those do what you want, just include the COUNTIF... part in
the
formula
that you want to show your inventory (subtracting it from the
number
you
have ordered. if it's in the same row it should be easy).



"Crowraine" wrote in
message
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No. All the sheets, the part number is at least 3 columns
over.
But hey,
if I
need to I can move it.

"Dave R." wrote:

Do you have a column next to "10-6161" that has a 4 in it?


"Crowraine" wrote in
message
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Ok, let me try this again.
I have 4 lipsticks which are represented in sheet
'Inventory
Ordered'
cell
E3. I want those lipstick to be represented by 10-6161.
Everytime I
type
in
10-6161 in sheet 'Inventory Sold' column B I want it to
subtract from
'Inventory Ordered' cell E3 and the results to show in
'Inventory In
Stock'
cell D3.

Layout;
'Inventory Ordered' Cell E3 minus by part number
'Inventory
Sold'
column B
to = in 'Inventory In Stock' D3

If I can't work it out, would someone also be kind enough
to
walk me
through
it once.