trvlnmny wrote:
On Sep 8, 5:55 pm, wrote:
Check out the features of Pivot Tables.

For very good assistance see Debra Dalgleish's site.

http://www.contextures.on.ca/tiptech.html

See help under the "P" section.

For your particular need maybe

http://www.contextures.com/excel-piv...subtotals.html

Gord Dibben Microsoft Excel MVP

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 14:25:36 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:







I am working with Excel 2003 and W Vista.
I have a spread sheet that contains 5 columns. One column contains
Amounts Spent. Another column contains a one word category of what the
amount was spent on such as fuel, dining etc.
The spreadsheet is in order of the date of the expenditure. Someplace
at the bottom I would like to be able to show sub totals based on the
category.
Thank you for any and all help.

OK, I am using the Pivot Table Wizard. In my source worksheet I have
columns labeled Date, Amount and For.
In the Wizard Layout screen I move Date to Row, I move For to Column
and I move Amount to Data. What happens is Amount changes to Count of
Amount. This gives me a count of the amount entries and not the actual
amount value.
Thanks for any and all help.

Click on the "Count of Amount" and you should be able to change count to sum

Also check out the sumif formula it will total, that may be an
alternative solution


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Mad