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"Adding" rows from one workbook to another, and expanding workbooks by row
I've been asked to put together a "one-button" report in Excel, and I'm about at my wit's end in trying to figure out how to do it! I'm not even sure this can be done, so I've finally come here. I've put together three campaign reports for my university using hyperlinks. Essentially, the reports work by downloading information from our proprietary database into a source file, then preparing a destination file to sort the data the way we want. Now I've been asked to prepare a fourth report: the difference is that the data is not summed like the other three, but rather re-sorted into rows. So, the source file is going to look like this: Jones $10,000 Business Smith $20,000 Science Roy $5,000 Arts Johns $50,000 Business Thomas $20,000 Arts White $4,000 Business And the destination file is supposed to look like this: Science (1 gift(s)) Total: $20,000 Smith $20,000 Science Arts (2 gifts(s)) Total: $25,000 Roy $5,000 Arts Thomas $20,000 Arts Business (3 gifts(s)) Total: $64,000 Smith $10,000 Business Johns $50,000 Business White $4,000 Business The question is: Can Excel even do this? And, if it can, how? I know that these types of operations can be done in Crystal Reports or similar programs, but for a number of reasons I'd really like to keep this in Excel. Thanks, The Third Man -- The Third Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Third Man's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=36759 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=564776 |
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Have you experimented with Pivot tables to arrange and calculate your data?
"The Third Man" wrote: I've been asked to put together a "one-button" report in Excel, and I'm about at my wit's end in trying to figure out how to do it! I'm not even sure this can be done, so I've finally come here. I've put together three campaign reports for my university using hyperlinks. Essentially, the reports work by downloading information from our proprietary database into a source file, then preparing a destination file to sort the data the way we want. Now I've been asked to prepare a fourth report: the difference is that the data is not summed like the other three, but rather re-sorted into rows. So, the source file is going to look like this: Jones $10,000 Business Smith $20,000 Science Roy $5,000 Arts Johns $50,000 Business Thomas $20,000 Arts White $4,000 Business And the destination file is supposed to look like this: Science (1 gift(s)) Total: $20,000 Smith $20,000 Science Arts (2 gifts(s)) Total: $25,000 Roy $5,000 Arts Thomas $20,000 Arts Business (3 gifts(s)) Total: $64,000 Smith $10,000 Business Johns $50,000 Business White $4,000 Business The question is: Can Excel even do this? And, if it can, how? I know that these types of operations can be done in Crystal Reports or similar programs, but for a number of reasons I'd really like to keep this in Excel. Thanks, The Third Man -- The Third Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Third Man's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=36759 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=564776 |
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No, I haven't tried Pivot Tables. I don't know much about them, but I'll take a look. Thanks. -- The Third Man ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Third Man's Profile: http://www.excelforum.com/member.php...o&userid=36759 View this thread: http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...hreadid=564776 |
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