firstly highlight all of the data that you want in the report. then click on
Data/Pivot table report and follow the instructions from there. It may not
be immediatley apparent but it is not easy to explain without being there in
person.

trial and error is good though.


"hugh jass" wrote in message
.. .
Hello,
I am trying to do a table summary, which I believe I can accomplish with
the
Pivot Table Report.
Can someone please help with what I am trying to do?

Using the following table (figure 1) as an example (comma separated incase
you'd like to copy the text, save as a .csv file, then import into Excel -
didn't want to post any attachments), I would like to build a summary
based
on specific columns.
Essentially, I want the following information:
Number of cars sold by Manufacturer, date and dealer, similar to below.
manufacturer: Ford, date: 09/09/2003, dealer: 1, 1 cars sold
manufacturer: Ford, date: 09/09/2003, dealer: 2, 1 cars sold
manufacturer: Citroen, date: 08/09/2003, dealer: 1, 2 cars sold, etc...
Can this be done in Excel?? If so, how do you do it? How do you deal
with
the fact that this is not all numeric data?
THanks in advance, hj.


figure 1.
Used Cars Recently Sold in Yourtown, OH.
manufacturer,model,license,date,dealer
Ford,Edsel,ewr-234,09/09/2003,1
Ford,Focus,eru-743,09/09/2003,2
Toyota,Landcruiser,itr-393,07/09/2003,3
Toyota,Corona,ack-394,09/09/2003,3
Toyota,Corona,krm-584,06/09/2003,2
Citroen,DSpécial ,mfh-854,08/09/2003,2
Citroen,Pallas,ner-936,08/09/2003,1
Citroen,Pallas,mke-483,08/09/2003,1
Honda,Civic,nkr-486,08/09/2003,2
Honda,Civic,isk-438,07/09/2003,3
Honda,Accord,wdl-348,07/09/2003,1

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