Is there any way to put criteria right into the function statement instead of
having to place it in a range and just refer to the range? It would be so
much easier and flexible if there were some way to stop constructing an
outside criteria range everytime I use the database fuctions like dsum, dget,
davg etc.

Is there a new better way to do this like:

=dsum(tablerange, fieldname, criteria right in the function like "firstfield
= x")
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Please contact me by email if you have an answer to this question. I
appreciate it.