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Can excel summate and report in charts text information recorded in a single
table. EG Columns entitled Hair, Eyes, Height with values blue brown green
auburn blond dark tall short medium. etc
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Default Sum & report contents of table containing text values?

You could use a pivot table to summarize the data, and create a chart
from that. There are instructions and links he

http://www.contextures.com/xlPivot01.html

For example, put Hair in the row area and Eyes in the column area.
Put Height in the data area, as Count of height.


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Can excel summate and report in charts text information recorded in a single
table. EG Columns entitled Hair, Eyes, Height with values blue brown green
auburn blond dark tall short medium. etc



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